Be careful where you step! :-)
> I'm wearing a clean pressed blue shirt at the moment too.
It's April. Talk to us in July. :-)
The NYC Subway is way cleaner than it was even 10 years ago (let alone when I lived there 15-20 ago), but it's no Paris Metro, not by a long shot.
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Speaking of Paris, I think their 30-minutes-free bike scheme is pure genius. San Francisco is in love with it, but there's too many hills here for it to work out much beyond the CBD. NYC, on the other hand, would be a great place for it. Of course you'd have to do what Paris did and really beef up the bike lanes all over the city.
I dare say Doug in his clean shirt would love a bike ride down Broadway to work in the spring.
/jordan