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2022-08-23
I'm actually staying just a few blocks from the previous place. Not as fancy decor, similar layout otherwise -- 2BR, twin beds in the second bedroom, master bath is through a closet. Open plan kitchen, no purifier, more modern fridge. Microwave might have a toaster oven function too, not sure; no rotator. Anyway.
Today I took Metrobus 7 back to the Bosque. Closing time was near, but not too near, I got some tree walking in, in clean air -- AQI today was in the 30s, vs. 130 yesterday.
I went out the west side, over an overpass, and hoped for "Bosque Seccion II", but it was fenced off. Lots of roads through the area. I ended up back on Reforma, at Auditorio, which intersects with a Metro line. *Lots* of food stalls. I wasn't hungry though. Crossed, walked through some nice small parks, to Campo Martes, the end of the MB 7. And *then* I realized I was just a few minutes south of Polanco, a supposedly posh area I hadn't been to before. So I went.
Yeah, it's posh. Wide sidewalks, fair bit of pedestrian traffic, but no sidewalk vendors, so I suspect that's policy. A very nice Parque Lincoln, and restaurants just north of it. I finally got hungry, figured the Portuguese place would be cheap compared to Portuguese places in the US, and tried it, Casa Portuguese.
Verdict: ehhh. $31 (after tip) for onion soup, duck rice, and the smallest bottled water. The food was passable, not great; I was adding spicy bread sauce (table bread came with two spreads, like mayo and a spicy thing) to the rice to make it more interesting. Around the corner from me I can get $1 tacos al pastor that bring more joy.
Well, I tried.
Thought about walking home, but bladder and footsoreness called for a ride home. By now I've taken the BRT a bunch of times, since my first complaint, and there's been no repeat of that disaster. It's still a bit half-assed for BRT: no signal priority, no physical exclusion from the bus lane. Granted, with a bus a minute, drivers might hate signal priority, but fuck them, there are more people on the bus. Though, I'm not sure how frequent signal priority interacts with *pedestrians*. Hmm.
The buses have audio announcements of stops (better than all of Australia); video seems hit or miss.
Masking in Walmart or on the bus is nominally close to 100%, with a lot of KN95s; but also a fair number of noses, some of them talking (plus one maskless) on the ride home. I'm guessing they get laxer later, and this was nearly 10 PM.
Google Maps has not had any complete disasters like it did in the Historic Center, but it still has Problems. Besides the absurdly convoluted routes it likes to suggest regarding the Bosque, it has some odd estimates of walking time. Like, the total will be the sum of the components, plus an extra six minutes for no reason. And its estimate of the components can be off: it was saying 9 minute walk from the El Angel stop to my place, and I timed it as 5. Granted I started after the first walk sign turned for me, but even waiting for a signal would just add a minute.
Today I took Metrobus 7 back to the Bosque. Closing time was near, but not too near, I got some tree walking in, in clean air -- AQI today was in the 30s, vs. 130 yesterday.
I went out the west side, over an overpass, and hoped for "Bosque Seccion II", but it was fenced off. Lots of roads through the area. I ended up back on Reforma, at Auditorio, which intersects with a Metro line. *Lots* of food stalls. I wasn't hungry though. Crossed, walked through some nice small parks, to Campo Martes, the end of the MB 7. And *then* I realized I was just a few minutes south of Polanco, a supposedly posh area I hadn't been to before. So I went.
Yeah, it's posh. Wide sidewalks, fair bit of pedestrian traffic, but no sidewalk vendors, so I suspect that's policy. A very nice Parque Lincoln, and restaurants just north of it. I finally got hungry, figured the Portuguese place would be cheap compared to Portuguese places in the US, and tried it, Casa Portuguese.
Verdict: ehhh. $31 (after tip) for onion soup, duck rice, and the smallest bottled water. The food was passable, not great; I was adding spicy bread sauce (table bread came with two spreads, like mayo and a spicy thing) to the rice to make it more interesting. Around the corner from me I can get $1 tacos al pastor that bring more joy.
Well, I tried.
Thought about walking home, but bladder and footsoreness called for a ride home. By now I've taken the BRT a bunch of times, since my first complaint, and there's been no repeat of that disaster. It's still a bit half-assed for BRT: no signal priority, no physical exclusion from the bus lane. Granted, with a bus a minute, drivers might hate signal priority, but fuck them, there are more people on the bus. Though, I'm not sure how frequent signal priority interacts with *pedestrians*. Hmm.
The buses have audio announcements of stops (better than all of Australia); video seems hit or miss.
Masking in Walmart or on the bus is nominally close to 100%, with a lot of KN95s; but also a fair number of noses, some of them talking (plus one maskless) on the ride home. I'm guessing they get laxer later, and this was nearly 10 PM.
Google Maps has not had any complete disasters like it did in the Historic Center, but it still has Problems. Besides the absurdly convoluted routes it likes to suggest regarding the Bosque, it has some odd estimates of walking time. Like, the total will be the sum of the components, plus an extra six minutes for no reason. And its estimate of the components can be off: it was saying 9 minute walk from the El Angel stop to my place, and I timed it as 5. Granted I started after the first walk sign turned for me, but even waiting for a signal would just add a minute.