I used Google Maps set for motor vehicle navigation to get myself from the finishing control to the bus station because I had precious little time to get muddled on bike paths along the way. However, while the morning rush hour traffic may not have started in earnest yet at 6:30AM, the drivers were going faster and were quite aggressive, so I was on very good behavior, and dove to the curb whenever I was in doubt, what with wearing a 25 pound back pack throwing off my center of gravity and basically being brain dead by that time. I went around the block once to avoid attempting to cross lanes of traffic on a busy boulevard to make a left, and I went on the sidewalk to navigate a one way street the wrong way. Everything was relatively reasonable except for when I found I was approaching a somewhat steep hill on Broadway, and had to pick between the hill and a tunnel. I opted for the tunnel and immediately had second thoughts and swung over to the pedestrian walkway, which posed its own perils, but nothing quite so serious as getting knocked down and run over in the tunnel. I made it in a reasonable amount of time to the bus terminal, but was at the very limits of a feasible amount of time to box the bike to be checked on as baggage, and the lady at the window was looking daggers at me when I said I wanted to check the bike on and needed a box. Turns out it was their very last box, so I was lucky in that regard in spite of the assurances I had received the week before from a guy in their baggage department who guaranteed they always had LOTS of boxes (when in fact the lady told me she had placed an order for more boxes three weeks earlier). After all was said and done, I had the bike boxed and checked in well before the arrival of the bus, and then the train was running over 1/2 hour late. Another case of "hurry up and wait"! (But better than missing the train, having to get a hotel room for the day, and then getting a new train ticket for the next day...)