You can't really tell it clearly, but the "path" becomes primeval forest thick here at the end, as it was at the beginning, and you essentially have to bushwack to get a bike through. From everything I could tell, they just don't really give a damn about maintaining bridge crossing facilities for cyclists or pedestrians in New Jersey.
Someone gave me a beater commuter bicycle to use while I'm in NYC, and I'm abusing the kindness of another cyclist friend by stuffing it in his bicycle closet (thanks, T!) I had a great ride with the person who gifted the bike on me from Queens to the financial district in Manhattan. I discovered that there is basically no reason to even try to obey traffic regulations in Manhattan, since the cars, trucks, taxis, hired cars, and NYPD traffic officers don't. There were several cases where it was actually reckless to try to obey the law.
My favorite was when the asshole NYPD officer directing traffic yelled (literally) at us to get out of the way when we were at the front of a left turn lane just before turning into Chinatown (it was Delancy Street, I think at Allen Street, just after we got off the Williamsburg Bridge.) Baffled, we did, and the cop proceeded to yell at the cars behind us to ignore the no left turn red light and turn. He completely ignored us and after a while started to yell at more cars to drive through the still red light. Dumb asshole. This was basically the only thing this cop was doing, which caused the intersection to devolve into chaos, since the other drivers didn't know what to do, and we had to make our own way through the intersection. Dumb dumb dumb asshole.
While I was gone J watered the plants, and both the herb garden and tomato plantings are doing well:
the Bonnie Original hybrid
the herb garden planting and individual sweet basil...
Okay, I have some errands to run, and really need to get in a bike ride.
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