After narrowing down the possibilities some, I brute-forced it. It was only later, after checking out the hint thread, that I was able to see why the answer makes sense.
Thank you for the review! I also appreciate you taking me up on my request for transit horror stories. I think being in a foreign country adds even greater potential for transit-related chaos and confusion, just because you have even less of a grounding in how things work than you would in an unfamiliar city in your own country. And then there’s the possibility of, say, having an unfortunate realization that you are out of cash and the ticket machine won’t take your non-European credit card, not that this has happened to me.
If the text tells you to hurry, you have to move on before the bike animation stops, but if something pops up blocking your way, you have to wait until it stops.