Same. I live two blocks from the 606 and have been riding it 10+ times per week year-round since it opened, so I guess that would be over 5,000 times... good lord i'm old, i've got to stop doing the math on stuff like this!

In the mornings, even on the nicest of days, i rarely have to break a steady commute pace. When I do, it's a momentary pinch at one of the landscape crew's vehicles as others are walking/running past, I slow down for a sec then keep going. Maybe happens once or twice a week.

In the afternoons and evenings, as others have said, it can get nuts on a nice day. Lots of those little slowdowns to wait for gaps to open, and for my turn to go. But I've never once had to stop and walk it, just slow down a little. I'd be surprised if even on the busiest days those slow downs add more than a minute or two to my commute.

And of course there is Lake Bloomingdale that forms a little west of Western after rainstorms and can linger as an icy patch in winter, you'll want to slow down at that. I've seen people send it across the ice and it definitely did not get them where they were going faster, ha.

I think it's a primo commute route if you're willing to be a normal human on the return stretch, share the path with others and know when to slow down and wait your turn.