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I'd be interested to hear about new stations as they pop up.

I was excited to find a new station only 2 blocks from my house last night (a block closer than the planned location):

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I think it would still be useful to show general activity even with the rebalancing 'noise.'

Do you think you might do that new station API thingie?

David Altenburg said:

h' 1.0 said:

But first I want one that tracks how active the various stations are... I guess by how often the number of bikes changes.


Yeah, that's what I'm most interested in. If you click on the stations in my app, you'll notice that it graphs the changes in bikes/docks for the stations. I plan to next (after doing some work to speed up the site) add some aggregation of that data so that we can get some idea of station activity. Unfortunately, rebalancing (where Divvy bikes are loaded from one station into a van to be moved to another station) adds a lot of noise to that data, so I'd really love to see the API provide actual arrival/departure information so that I can use that rather than try to infer it. 

It occurs to me I should probably explain what a virtual account number is.

That's Citi's name for 'em... Bank of America offers them too, but they call them something different (forget what.)

Basically you go into your credit card online account and generate them-- you get a little image of a credit card with your name, an account number, an expiration date and CVV code (I screenshot 'em and generate a few each time I go in.)

The account number is basically an alias to your 'real' account. The advantage is that you don't have to get a new card every time there's a chance the number may have been compromised. Or worry about that once it's been used, or once it's much more than a month old. By default, the expirations are all at the end of the month after the current one. And once used for a merchant, that number is only good for that merchant and will be declined for any other.

You used to be able to go in and customize each one (credit limit, expiration) but I think they took that away.

This is great, David. 

An alternative is to follow @DivvyTrack on Twitter

h', #divvyred ended in August. 


David Altenburg said:

I've built a web application that grabs data from Divvy's API at http://viddy.gensym.org. The front page lists the 10 most recently added stations. I'm thinking of adding an RSS feed of station additions/changes if there's any demand for it.



Steven Vance said:


h', #divvyred ended in August.

Logan Square Divvy station went live this morning.

The Bank of America version allows you to set a credit limit (as low as you want) and an expiration date (default=2 months after current date). When that credit limit is used up (whether by 1 transaction or several) or the expiration date is reached, that virtual number is defunct.  I forget the exact term they use for this service, but I often use it for online transactions.  If I'm only planning to make one transaction at a particular site, I'll usually set the limit just high enough to allow that one transaction in case the site is hacked and the number is stolen.  (Happened to me once.)

h' 1.0 said:

It occurs to me I should probably explain what a virtual account number is.

That's Citi's name for 'em... Bank of America offers them too, but they call them something different (forget what.)

Basically you go into your credit card online account and generate them-- you get a little image of a credit card with your name, an account number, an expiration date and CVV code (I screenshot 'em and generate a few each time I go in.)

The account number is basically an alias to your 'real' account. The advantage is that you don't have to get a new card every time there's a chance the number may have been compromised. Or worry about that once it's been used, or once it's much more than a month old. By default, the expirations are all at the end of the month after the current one. And once used for a merchant, that number is only good for that merchant and will be declined for any other.

You used to be able to go in and customize each one (credit limit, expiration) but I think they took that away.

For those of you who don't do Facebook or Twitter, these were planned for today, according to the Divvy FB site:

Five new stations planned for today: Kedzie Ave & Milwaukee Ave, Lake Park Ave & 47th St, Cottage Grove Ave & Oakwood Blvd, Rhodes Ave & 32nd St, and Wells St & Burton Pl. Yay!

There's been a trend for at least one station in the "planned for today" list that doesn't get installed. In this list it was Wells & Burton.

Michelle Stenzel said:

For those of you who don't do Facebook or Twitter, these were planned for today, according to the Divvy FB site:

Five new stations planned for today: Kedzie Ave & Milwaukee Ave, Lake Park Ave & 47th St, Cottage Grove Ave & Oakwood Blvd, Rhodes Ave & 32nd St, and Wells St & Burton Pl. Yay!

Per today's tweets:

Six new stations planned for today: Lake Shore Dr & Stratford Pl, Broadway & Wilson Ave, Broadway & Argyle St, Broadway & Berwyn Ave, Paulina St & Montrose Ave, and Damen Ave & Belle Plaine Ave.

Yeah, even their short term planning is of dubious quality. Various days they promised 6 new stations, yet installed 8.

Steven Vance said:

There's been a trend for at least one station in the "planned for today" list that doesn't get installed. In this list it was Wells & Burton.

Michelle Stenzel said:

For those of you who don't do Facebook or Twitter, these were planned for today, according to the Divvy FB site:

Five new stations planned for today: Kedzie Ave & Milwaukee Ave, Lake Park Ave & 47th St, Cottage Grove Ave & Oakwood Blvd, Rhodes Ave & 32nd St, and Wells St & Burton Pl. Yay!

This is interesting. In the original plan, everything above Lawrence would be delayed until spring 2014. Today they are jumping north of Lawrence. Maybe we'll see those Andersonville stations before winter after all :)

JeffB (7+ miles) said:

Per today's tweets:

Six new stations planned for today: Lake Shore Dr & Stratford Pl, Broadway & Wilson Ave, Broadway & Argyle St, Broadway & Berwyn Ave, Paulina St & Montrose Ave, and Damen Ave & Belle Plaine Ave.

Broadway & Wilson = Truman College...

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