Despite the snow coming down, the Divvy team was out "densifying" the station at Washington/LaSalle outside of City Hall. This station was originally installed in Aug 2025 with 19 docks and exploded in use. There are now 30 Divvy docks in this tiny space!

Yeah normalize the SUV problem

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I just feel like a trolley is far too cute a mode of transportation for the trolley problem.

Bike racks in a subway car!

Jerome Alexander Horne@jahorne.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new @mta.maryland.gov Subway Cars are in service!

Ah yes the famous promise from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to make subways free

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Worrying.

i do not like being on the road with suvs behind me because it feels like they're tailgating because they're huge

Don't forget to take the Cook County Rail Infill Station Study survey (and put dots for Metra infill stations in Humboldt Park!) cook-rail-survey-hntbcorp.hub.arcgis.com

Some highlights of the 49 new bike racks CDOT installed along the new protected bike lanes on Clark Street.

Chicago’s newest Divvy station is live at Rockwell St & Division St in East Humboldt Park 🚲 This fills a key gap in the system, sits along a popular bike route, and serves a busy commercial corridor in a dense residential neighborhood.

Chicago’s newest Divvy station is live at Canal & Lake downtown 🚲 With the Lake St Bridge closed, a ton of trips have been starting and ending here. Divvy responded by installing a split station that shows up as two separate stations, helping handle the extra demand & keep trips moving smoothly.

Whenever someone says we built this place for cars, I have to respond that we *rebuilt* this place for cars. Naperville expanded this roadway to add a right turn lane, and had to reroute the sidewalk.

Kara Transit Authority@stormykara.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The crosswalk across Washington at North - which one would use going downtown or to the children’s museum - legit will not change for pedestrians *unless there is car traffic also waiting* Just to give you an idea of their priorities

“I wish these cyclists weren’t in my way. There must be a solution.” Bike infrastructure IS Car infrastructure

Divvy’s Kingsbury/Kinzie station was just electrified. It’s the 2nd busiest in the system and we doubled capacity. Half the docks are now electrified, charging e-bikes and e-scooters right in the dock. The PBLs on Kinzie make trips to this station safe and possible.

I love my cheapo open ear headphones!

Æthelred the UnPreddy@ready4preddy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Finally kicked for bone conducting headphones. Been really wary of headphones on the bike because I like having peripheral audio. These things are crazy. Can listen to music and just straight up hear things like normal. Audio quality is great too

for the first time in my adult life, I did not drive a car even one time for a whole calendar year

19 year olds should be riding ebikes, not killing people with hummers

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Another pedestrian death in our city. A 19-year-old driving a Hummer crushes a 66-year-old woman to death. He stayed at the scene—he won’t even get a ticket after a little of the “I couldn’t see her, I’m just trying to get home safe, etc” routine Enraging abc7ny.com/post/bronx-w...

Chicagoans don’t stop biking in winter. Divvy rides last week, despite frigid temps (daily lows in parentheses): • Mon 4,906 (3°F) • Tue 8,321 (17°F) • Wed 10,084 (32°F) • Thu 8,183 (21°F) • Fri 5,733 (11°F) • Sat 6,827 (24°F) • Sun 4,187 (18°F)

Chicago invested $3M+ in Divvy this year, incl a $550K operating subsidy. That delivered: • 9,200+ annual price freezes ($143 vs. $159) • 5,500+ discounted $99 memberships • 48,000+ capped e-bike rides (free minutes 31–45) • 35,500+ free unlocks in Equity Priority Areas nabsa.net/2025/12/18/d...

Treating Bikeshare as Essential Transportation

Bikeshare systems across North America prove their value every day. Read this post from David Powe about bikeshare in Chicago!

nabsa.net

oughhh cars suck to own/maintain why can't we have good public transport? >~<

I wrote this piece for NABSA based on what we’re seeing with Divvy. Treating bikeshare as essential transportation & backing it up with real policy & investment has delivered results: higher ridership, system stability, stronger equity outcomes & stable pricing in Chicago nabsa.net/2025/12/18/d...

Treating Bikeshare as Essential Transportation

Bikeshare systems across North America prove their value every day. Read this post from David Powe about bikeshare in Chicago!

nabsa.net

CDOT is putting out hundreds of new bike racks all across Chicago this month. Here are some of the greatest hits.

Good to see planters installed in pedestrian islands on 10th Ave. in Chelsea/Hudson Yards

How do you think we get to a point where that person didn’t need to be driving their car at all? Shouldn’t the takeaway be that that person shouldn't be driving (or parking) in the first place?

David Shere@davidshere.net · 8mo ago

Why is reducing street parking good? Just saw an driver turn right off WB Hopkins onto Peralta, nearly hit a guy on a bike in the crosswalk, and then go park her car twenty feet away in a spot that’s going to be a concrete protected bike lane in a year or so.

Thanks to Nick Fountain & Planet Money for inviting Mick Dumke and me to discuss the parking meter deal and how our financial decisions today affect our city in the future. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

When Chicago pawned its parking meters : Planet Money

In 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property taxes, but what politician wants to do that? So instead, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s a...

npr.org

Chicago’s newest electrified Divvy charging station is live in Streeterville outside Northwestern Memorial Hospital. One of the busiest stations in the city, now “densified” with 50% more capacity in the same footprint and charging ebikes and escooters at the dock.

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

road.cc@roadcc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lime and Forest are on their "last warning" if they don't fix "persistent problems" with rider behaviour and dangerous parking.

“Okay, but what if you’re two senior citizens w a bunch of holiday packages to mail?! How do you think you get them to the post office without a car?!” Actually, easier than driving, parking no problem

Shout out to winter Divvy riders who’ve been braving extreme cold across Chicago: 12/13 (low 4°F): 3,242 rides 12/14 (low -1°F): 2,333 rides On my ride in this morning, it was 10°F but felt like -5°F and people were still out riding. Protected bike lanes on Grand Ave made it possible and safe!

I’m pretty sure I already had reached 12% of all Divvy stations before @davidpowe.bsky.social went and had a bunch more installed this year!

A CTA station that actually has bus arrivals on a modern live screen? (3 bunched Lawrence buses were in fact due)