The newest place, sounds like a contender. I'm reading your description of it as being bigger, closer to the path, with more options for coming and going than you have now. Is traffic about the same on this street as the one you live on now? Is it comparable rent to what you're currently paying?

The lack of w/d is a drawback. How far to do laundry? Would your unit face the freeway? Can you hear or see it through the windows?