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We prove a couple of general conditional convergence results on ergodic averages for horocycle and geodesic subgroups of any continuous $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$- action on a locally compact space. These results are motivated by theorems of Eskin, Mirzakhani and Mohammadi on the $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-action on the moduli space of Abelian differentials. By our argument we can derive from these theorems an improved version of the “weak convergence” of push-forwards of horocycle measures under the geodesic flow and a new short proof of a theorem of Chaika and Eskin on Birkhoff genericity in almost all directions for the Teichmüller geodesic flow.