How many other cyclists did you see on your commute this morning?

I'll start: 1.

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Permalink Reply by David Altenburg on December 6, 2013 at 3:43pm

I saw a few on Milwaukee Ave. Maybe 5 or 6 total.

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Permalink Reply by J. Jordan on December 7, 2013 at 7:58am

Saw about 10 yesterday morning, and none today.

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on December 7, 2013 at 8:04am

I saw a total of five bikes on the lake yesterday a little after six.

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Permalink Reply by Liz W. Durham on December 7, 2013 at 10:33am

Two who I believe were headed home after Saturday morning group ride...they were not riding together but were both all kitted up.

One gal dressed in layers of bright fun colors. I found myself hoping that she had layers enough to be warm along with looking stylin'.

And, I didn't see them riding but three others from my shop also rode in this morning...so I can almost say 6.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on December 7, 2013 at 3:08pm

Not commuting today, and I did not count, but riding from Wicker Park to Ravenswood I was surprised at the number of other people I saw riding. It was surely more than ten.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on December 8, 2013 at 3:54pm

Last night, Saturday, I saw another half dozen or so cyclists on Damen after midnight, as I headed north to the Clybourn Metra station on a Divvy. I was slightly overdressed in a down parka, but was very happy to have the parka on my last mile-and-a-half walk from the Evanston Main Street station home at 3:00 AM in 15 degree temps. Our Metra train ran over some unfortunate homeless man around 1:00 AM, and the train stopped just south of Main for two hours while the police investigated, trapping us passengers inside. Metra police took two of the more rambunctious passengers off the train in handcuffs during our wait. I bailed out as soon as the police released our train and we moved into Main Street, not wanting to wait hours longer for a replacement engineer (ours was taken, I expect, for drug/alcohol testing and a police interview).

I understand that Divvy was not overly used yesterday, to put it mildly (though I did my part with two Divvy trips). Since the bikes were mostly sitting in place all evening, there wasn't a lot of rebalancing to do, so we took it upon ourselves to move several hundred bikes out of storage and stash them in stations, as the shop was so ridiculously stuffed with stored bikes as to be unusable. So expect to see a lot more Divvy bikes out there, in docks, today and tomorrow, at least, until someone higher up decides this was a bad move.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on December 8, 2013 at 5:47pm

It looks to me like the stations around my part of town are better stocked than they were even before the cold hit... I don't see any with less than 5 bikes, even Ogden/Blue Line, which usually trends toward empty.

Thunder Snow said:

I understand that Divvy was not overly used yesterday, to put it mildly (though I did my part with two Divvy trips). Since the bikes were mostly sitting in place all evening, there wasn't a lot of rebalancing to do, so we took it upon ourselves to move several hundred bikes out of storage and stash them in stations, as the shop was so ridiculously stuffed with stored bikes as to be unusable. So expect to see a lot more Divvy bikes out there, in docks, today and tomorrow, at least, until someone higher up decides this was a bad move.