Divvy Bikes on Congress
It's rare that I see anyone biking on congress west of clark. pretty much a 4 lane highway there and cars are flying. I've seen pedestrians clipped crossing bc some lights are funny and they stop traffic in one direction before the other.
over the last month I've noticed at least 3 people tootleing down congress on divvys. which I found odd. then today as I was mentioning it to somebody approaching wells and congress, there was a group of 5 divvy riding dudes who headed west on congress from wells. up, over the river and under the old post office, as far as I could tell. cars were stopped for the light momentarily but a minute or so later it was pretty full on freeway traffic heading towards them. has anyone else noticed this? am I unaware of some secret bike shortcut near the post office? did cal's reopen a location in there?
whole thing was kind of surreal to me.
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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on
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I'd assume it was someone getting Divvy bikes from the Clark & Congress location who wasn't familiar with local geography. Yikes!
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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on
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It is incredibly easy to head west on Congress and then find yourself basically on 290 if you don't know where you're going. Happened to me many, many moons ago.
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Permalink Reply by Tom Dworzanski on
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Yikes!
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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on
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I concur with Anne. I believe a lot of people who jump on a Divvy have never cycled in Chicago before so they haven't crafted their internal bike map of places to ride and places that they've scratched off.
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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on
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A buddy of mine said he saw two people looked like tourists on LSD last week!
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?? Not sure I quite get what you're saying. Riding Divvy doesn't mean that you've automatically got knowledge of good and unsafe places to ride. Perhaps Divvy maps close to places like Congress and LSD should have those roads marked in red or otherwise have some "no bikes" indication. Thoughts?
Jennifer on the lake said:I thought not having to do that anymore was kind of the whole point?
Steven Vance said:I concur with Anne. I believe a lot of people who jump on a Divvy have never cycled in Chicago before so they haven't crafted their internal bike map of places to ride and places that they've scratched off.
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Permalink Reply by CJ on
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oh wow, that tops congress unless my group made it west of halsted.
anyone see any divvys on the dan ryan?
in it to win it 8.0 mi said:A buddy of mine said he saw two people looked like tourists on LSD last week!
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Permalink Reply by Julia 3.5/7.5 mi on
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Yes, but certainly not on an expressway. I think there should be something on that divvy station that warns riders that you're entering what becomes an expressway. I though the LED sign about travel times was a pretty strong clue.
Jennifer on the lake said:Safety in numbers, every route a bike route, and so forth. Flood the streets with Normal People who don't know what they're doing, and make the drivers have to pay attention and the planners plan for them, until cycling is just like driving, something you just do without really thinking about it and very little education or training.
Anne Alt said:?? Not sure I quite get what you're saying. Riding Divvy doesn't mean that you've automatically got knowledge of good and unsafe places to ride. Perhaps Divvy maps close to places like Congress and LSD should have those roads marked in red or otherwise have some "no bikes" indication. Thoughts?
Jennifer on the lake said:I thought not having to do that anymore was kind of the whole point?
Steven Vance said:I concur with Anne. I believe a lot of people who jump on a Divvy have never cycled in Chicago before so they haven't crafted their internal bike map of places to ride and places that they've scratched off.
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+1 The last thing we need is for people to get seriously injured or killed after inadvertently ending up on expressways.
Julia 3.5/7.5 mi said:Yes, but certainly not on an expressway. I think there should be something on that divvy station that warns riders that you're entering what becomes an expressway. I though the LED sign about travel times was a pretty strong clue.
Jennifer on the lake said:Safety in numbers, every route a bike route, and so forth. Flood the streets with Normal People who don't know what they're doing, and make the drivers have to pay attention and the planners plan for them, until cycling is just like driving, something you just do without really thinking about it and very little education or training.
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