I bike the NBT a lot and love it. I take Lawrence to elston to the NBT and also feel safer on Lawrence than on the LFP. But before work, there just isn't time for that ride. I live just off LSD, and before work the lakefront is really the only feasible option. Really early in the morning on week days when the tourists and kids haven't come out yet, the ride is usually doable, and especially pleasant south of the shedd aquarium. (This is unlike weekends when I wouldn't dare venture onto the LFP.) But now, I just don't know. . .