Originally Posted by
rm -rf
When visiting Chicago last summer, the Divvy bike share was great in the historic skyscraper district. You can drop off a bike within a few blocks of any destination, then pick up another one to continue onward. And traffic was surprisingly light on the weekend.
It's a whole different mindset from driving or riding your own bike. No need to locate parking, plan your stops, or worry about your locked up bike.
475 stations by this summer. Wow.
The
station map, showing how full each station is right now.
Very impressive. The map though did not have a scale so I could not figure out how large an area it covered. Certainly it is larger than Boston, typical of Midwestern scale.
I once visited Chicago and rode a bike shop rental on the awesome Lakeshore Path. When I got back to Boston and rode one of our major paths, I thought to myself with pride,
"How quaint...How Bostonian."