Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about bike share

Testing a dockless bike corral in Seattle. Photo: Dongho Chang

Dockless Bike-Share Study by Chicago Consultants Recommends Best Practices

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | Apr 3, 2018 | 23 Comments

Dockless bike share doesn't have to be a disaster like in China or Amsterdam. A new report compares regulations across cities in the United States and how each city intends to deal with bikes on sidewalks, amongst other issues.

You can take the extended Expo line to Santa Monica, just a couple blocks from the beach. Photo: Steven Vance

It’s Cheap and Easy to Get Around Los Angeles by Transit

By Steven Vance | Jan 17, 2018 | 49 Comments

Although LA has a reputation for being hopelessly car-dependent, with a little planning you can have a great time sightseeing via buses and trains.

A Divvy station by the Oak Park Green Line stop. Photo: Brian Crawford

For Whom the Bike Bell Tolls: Oak Park Kills Its Divvy Program

By Jeff McMahon | Jan 17, 2018 | 36 Comments

Trustees argued that the suburb's annual subsidy of the bike-share system represents irresponsible spending, while ignoring the much higher costs of car infrastructure in the village.

Arron Muhammad, owner of Akhira's Praline, Candy & Coffee House, test rides a Jump bike. Photo: John Greenfield

Might as Well Jump: Test-Riding Electrical-Assist Dockless Bikes

By John Greenfield | Dec 11, 2017 | 15 Comments

Equiticity's Oboi Reed argues that dockless bikes, including e-bikes, are an ideal way to get people excited about biking in underserved communities.

A rainbow of bike-share choices in the District. Photo: John Greenfield

Reflections on Dockless Bike-Share After Trying It Out in Washington, D.C.

By John Greenfield | Nov 28, 2017 | 31 Comments

DoBi is handy and fun to use, but it needs to be carefully regulated before it debuts in Chicago.

West Garfield and Austin Got Divvy Bikes Last Week. Will Anyone Use Them?

By John Greenfield | Jun 20, 2016 | 6 Comments

[Last November the Chicago Reader launched a weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership allows Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We syndicate a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website or in […]

Popular “Transit” App Now Enables Bypassing the Divvy Kiosk

By Steven Vance | May 6, 2016 | 6 Comments

A new partnership between Divvy and Transit app, you can now get 24-hour Divvy passes and ride codes via smartphone. This means that people who have just signed up for an annual membership won’t have to wait for a key to arrive in the mail before they can start using the blue bikes. It also means […]

Divvy Is Hiking Membership Fee to $99, Adding an Installment Option

By John Greenfield | Dec 30, 2015 | 30 Comments

The bad news: Divvy’s announced today that their annual membership fee will be rising from $75 to $99, starting on February 1. The good news: The bike-share system will be offering a new option of paying for a membership in monthly installments. When Divvy launched back in June 2013, yearly memberships cost $75 and 24-hour […]

Two Very Different Ways Bike-Share Benefits Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2015 | No Comments

A new survey [PDF] by researchers at UC Berkeley and published in Access Magazine sheds light on how bike-share systems interact with transit. Researchers Susan Shaheen and Elliot Martin surveyed more than 10,000 bike-share riders in Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Washington, DC. Like previous surveys have shown, Shaheen and Martin found that a significant number of bike-share users reduce car use. But their […]

Could Longer Rental Times Help Divvy Appeal to More Chicagoans?

By Michael Podgers | Nov 23, 2015 | 43 Comments

While visiting Vienna, Austria, I gave their CityBike Wien bike-share system a spin and found it has a couple of advantages over Chicago’s Divvy system. CityBike Wien is dirt cheap, with a one-time registration fee of only one euro, about a dollar, compared to $9.95 for a Divvy day pass. And the first hour of […]

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