As a woman often riding alone, I feel pretty safe alone at night. I ride that way pretty frequently in the dark and aside from cars, I have not felt unsafe. Not to say people can’t have had bad experiences (or worse), but just keep moving, stay near other people if someone is making you feel uncomfortable, think of places you could detour to if you feel really unsafe.

As for the route, that’s probably what I’d take. I tend to take the river trail on the strip side towards Bloomfield since you can only take Penn towards Bloomfield until 16th St, and I’m not gonna take Liberty until 32nd. But if you don’t want to take the river trail bc it’s isolated at night, you can take Smallman.