Originally Posted by
envane
Can't speak for NYC but the Lakefront Path in Chicago gets even more crowded than that on any nice summer afternoon, 7 days a week.
So for 13 weeks out of the year, it's not great in the afternoon. What about the other 39 weeks? And mornings? It's a tool people. Use it if it works. Find another tool if it doesn't. Don't fall into the trap of having a hammer and world looking like it's full of nails. And don't go all sanctimonious if the rest of the world doesn't belong to the One True Church of the Hammer.