Chicago bike sharing will be known as Divvy, be Chicago flag blue

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on December 1, 2013 at 6:41am

I used Divvy bikes last night for my 5 mile round trip, between work and the Clybourn Metra station, as I do every weekend night. For me, it's the fastest and cheapest way to go, particularly after midnight when a number of bus lines are shut down. You're right, there are fewer bikes currently in circulation right now, by design, as there aren't as many bikes checked out in this weather as there were on a sunny August afternoon. Instead of balancing most stations 50% bikes to 50% open docks, the mix in most cases is more 33% bikes to 66% open docks. But if certain stations should suddenly empty out, it doesn't take long to zoom a van over and put out more bikes. Right now, the Divvy shop is bursting at the seams with stored bikes; it's hard to even walk through the place. When the weather warms up again, many of the stored bikes will be put back out. And the next 125 stations, to be installed this coming spring & summer, will absorb even more of the stored bikes.