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 Duppie on October 10, 2013 at 2:15am

Now all we need is the real Andersonville stations and I can Divvy from home to the Ravenswood Metra.

Permalink Reply by Bradford Smith on October 10, 2013 at 3:35am

I can't wait for an Andersonville station!

Duppie said:

Now all we need is the real Andersonville stations and I can Divvy from home to the Ravenswood Metra.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 10, 2013 at 12:30pm

Washington & Ada

Taylor & Loomis (new location on Taylor)

Taylor & May

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 11, 2013 at 1:12am

Several Divvy stations are being closed down Saturday evening for the Marathon, then reopened Sunday afternoon, after the race.  This weekend you definitely need to consult the various Divvy map apps to make sure your regular docking station is operating.

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Permalink Reply by Brad on October 11, 2013 at 9:47am

This is a shameless plug because I know the developer, but there's a cool new Divvy routing/trip planning app for the iPhone called Re-Cycle. It was developed locally (obviously?) and even has a 30-minute timer built in, plus it can tell you how many Divvies you'd need to take to get to your destination.

Re-Cycle on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/la/app/re-cycle-bike-share-route/id6989623...

Permalink Reply by KayCee on October 11, 2013 at 3:35pm
Been waiting on a Roosevelt Collection station. .. It would make sense! Hoping to see it before Winter, it's been a planned station since the map was released.

h' 1.0 said:

And another...

I was about to Divvy to a movie theater in the S Loop but I looked at the station map and see it's in a Divvy hole large enough to make me reconsider.   Is there a process for a business owner to ask for a station?


h' 1.0 said:

Thanks for the heads-up.

Unrelated Divvy question-- when you hit the "needs repair" button, does someone actually try out the bike?

I had one with funky shifting last night-- would only go into low and high gear.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 11, 2013 at 6:05pm

Yeah, hitting the repair button locks the bike into the station, so no one else can get it.  Then the rebalancer or tech should check it out and either repair it on the spot or bring it back to the shop.

I would think requests for additional stations would go to CDOT for consideration, realizing the federal grant for bike sharing only goes so far.

And today: the station at Stratford & Lake Shore Drive was moved to Belmont & Broadway.
 
h' 1.0 said:

Thanks for the heads-up.

Unrelated Divvy question-- when you hit the "needs repair" button, does someone actually try out the bike?

I had one with funky shifting last night-- would only go into low and high gear.

Permalink Reply by KayCee on October 12, 2013 at 1:34am

Ugh!  I just looked, the planned station is gone... I've been waiting on this station all summer!  I had actually emailed management to ask when they expected it to be installed about a week and a half ago.  I wondered where they'd install a station- it would make sense to put one up on top of the bridge- no options nearby. I had my hopes up a few weeks ago when the Divvy van was parked alongside Target.  (Expletive!!) 

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on October 12, 2013 at 3:09am
So could someone theoretically be an asshat and hit the repair button for all of the bikes in the station, preventing anyone from taking a bike out?

Thunder Snow said:

Yeah, hitting the repair button locks the bike into the station, so no one else can get it.  Then the rebalancer or tech should check it out and either repair it on the spot or bring it back to the shop.

I would think requests for additional stations would go to CDOT for consideration, realizing the federal grant for bike sharing only goes so far.

And today: the station at Stratford & Lake Shore Drive was moved to Belmont & Broadway.
 
h' 1.0 said:

Thanks for the heads-up.

Unrelated Divvy question-- when you hit the "needs repair" button, does someone actually try out the bike?

I had one with funky shifting last night-- would only go into low and high gear.

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 12, 2013 at 3:52am


No, the repair button is only operable for a certain short time after a bike is docked. Bikes that have been docked for a while can't get the repair button to function.  I suppose someone could hit the repair button every single time after docking their bike, but after it happened a few times, with perfectly good bikes being locked in for repair, the pattern of who was doing it would emerge.


Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) said:

So could someone theoretically be an asshat and hit the repair button for all of the bikes in the station, preventing anyone from taking a bike out?
Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on October 12, 2013 at 4:15am

KayCee--have you chatted with your alderman about siting a Divvy station near you?  I'd think that would be a good first step.  Divvy has little to no say in where stations go; CDOT and aldermen do.
 
KayCee said:

Ugh!  I just looked, the planned station is gone... I've been waiting on this station all summer!  I had actually emailed management to ask when they expected it to be installed about a week and a half ago.  I wondered where they'd install a station- it would make sense to put one up on top of the bridge- no options nearby. I had my hopes up a few weeks ago when the Divvy van was parked alongside Target.  (Expletive!!) 

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on October 12, 2013 at 4:36am
That's good.

Thunder Snow said:


No, the repair button is only operable for a certain short time after a bike is docked. Bikes that have been docked for a while can't get the repair button to function.  I suppose someone could hit the repair button every single time after docking their bike, but after it happened a few times, with perfectly good bikes being locked in for repair, the pattern of who was doing it would emerge.


Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) said:

So could someone theoretically be an asshat and hit the repair button for all of the bikes in the station, preventing anyone from taking a bike out?

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