New Divvy station? Post it here.

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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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 12, 2013 at 3:35pm

Polk & Wolcott (at the Medical Center)

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 12, 2013 at 7:33pm

.........and Grace & Ashland.  Sedgwick/Webster has been physically removed for the Marathon, but should be reinstalled by early afternoon today (Sunday).

These stations will be closed until after the race, probably reopening around noon:

Sedgwick & Webster
Wells & Erie
Wabash & Grand
Fairbanks & Grand
May & Taylor
Loomis & Taylor
Morgan & 18th
Halsted & 21st
Normal & Archer

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 17, 2013 at 1:47pm

35th & Calumet

47th & Cottage Grove

51st & Cottage Grove

Permalink Reply by El Dorado on October 18, 2013 at 5:47am

h $550, I hope your credit card is valid and you are not trying to pull a fast one. Thunder snow, was correct in that the Paris bike share system took a huge hit from vagrants w/ bogus cards.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 18, 2013 at 9:24am

El Dorado, I can assure you that h' $550 is not a vagrant, despite the appearance of his current screen ID pic.

Permalink Reply by Marco Rayos on October 19, 2013 at 5:05am

Anyone add Blackhawk and Ashland? There is one there since maybe two weeks ago.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 19, 2013 at 5:55am

Yep.  September 28th.

http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/new-divvy-station-post-it-...

 

At this point, looking at the map, the Divvy network stretches from Berwyn on the north, Kedzie on the west, 58th on the south and 55th/Shore Drive on the east.  I'm guessing the station deployment will slow down from now until March or so, as we just closed down the huge Goose Island assembly warehouse this past Wednesday, furloughed the bulk of the assembly/deployment crew for the winter and consolidated in the too-small West Town operations center.  Though the skeleton crew did manage to get out three pre-built stations yesterday, so who knows?
 
Marco Rayos said:

Anyone add Blackhawk and Ashland? There is one there since maybe two weeks ago.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on October 19, 2013 at 12:20pm

Was riding around Hyde Park and Bronzeville today and was pleasantly surprised at the number of Divvy stations I saw.

Permalink Reply by El Dorado on October 19, 2013 at 12:34pm

They need to get some up by Howard.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 19, 2013 at 12:54pm

Yes.  And the Northwest, West, Southwest and Far South sides.  Current funding will get us 175 more stations by next summer (an additional 75 are rumored to have been added from the original plan), but that still leaves huge parts of Chicago unserved.  Both Evanston & Oak Park are applying for federal grants to get 8-10 Divvy stations within each city's borders and, if successful, I'd think there would be a push to extend northward from Loyola to Howard and westward through Austin, in order to not orphan those sub-systems.  Future corporate funding, like Citibank's funding of New York's bike share, will ultimately determine how far we can grow the system here.  Anyone at Groupon, Sears, Quaker Oats or McDonald's want to fund a bike share system?  Chicago could certainly use a few hundred more Divvy stations.

By contrast, read about San Francisco's struggle to roll out BABS (Bay Area Bike Share): http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/10/17/shifting-direction-sfmta-bring...

They've got 35 stations in place, ALL in the financial district, so there's really no place to ride to.  So few are buying yearly memberships.  If you read the comments section at sf.streetsblog, they're forced to squabble over the crumbs of the next 15 stations, as to which neighborhood they might get placed in.  In contrast, Chicago did it right by rolling out 280 or 290 stations right off the bat, spread out over several miles.  There's much more to do, but at least there's a "critical mass" of bike stations to make Divvy useful, even if you can't get everywhere yet.
 
El Dorado said:

They need to get some up by Howard.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 22, 2013 at 4:56pm

Ashland & Chicago Avenue

Permalink Reply by Duppie on October 23, 2013 at 2:00am

Too late. I called dibs already on the two missing Andersonville stations. You'll have to wait until spring...

h' $550 said:

Would be super sweet if a Western ave station went in to bridge the gap between 21st St and Division before the curtain drops for the year.

Harrison would be the obvious location...

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