I went out to see for myself this morning the new bike road in Marikina. Cycling along the Katipunan road isn’t exactly a walk in the park, so to speak, as trucks, cars and motorcycles zoom past you while you try to keep your balance and your bearings. The steep curve snaking its way through the Industrial Valley subdivision is so perilous and accident-prone it pays to check your brakes first before going downhill towards the Marikina Valley. Bayani Fernando and his wife, the current Mayor MCF, have done wonders for Marikina and it really shows. The lady mayor’s current project is the River Park, and the extension of the park is the recently completed bike-way.
The bike way is located upstream: its starts where the river park ends and extends all the way to Tumana bridge, maybe 2 or 3 kms further. As I ambled my way along the concrete bike road, I couldn’t help notice the contrasts between both sides of the river: the left side featured really large, very impressive and imposing houses of the well-to-do complete with concrete walls and dikes meant to protect the precious real estate from rising river waters, while the rest of the struggling masses huddle it out on the other side, with no protective dikes whatsoever.
Anyway, I reached the end of the bikeway, but not before I heard a burst from my rear tire. Hmmm. My first flat-tire since I bought this bike last December. My telescope-like air pump became useless. I had to look for a vulcanizing shop. The interior tire was fine, there were no perforations. Maybe Manong missed it, because on my way back, just as I was ascending the steep Industrial Valley road, the rear tire burst again. This time, I hailed a cab, hauled the bike at the back, and went home.
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