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Chicago bike sharing will be known as Divvy, be Chicago flag blue

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 19, 2013 at 4:55pm

Ever heard of 80/20?

Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) said:

If some of the data are no longer valid, they should be updated. Few things infuriate a developer more than bad data.

Elliot Greenberger (Divvy) said:

Hi Andrew, 

Those five phases remained from earlier estimates of phasing -- there are no exact dates attached to those phases and they are not altogether accurate.

The plan is for 75 stations in June (which are currently going on the ground), another 75 stations in July, and roughly 150 stations in August. We'll be putting down stations continuously and all stations put on the ground after our launch will go live days later. The remaining stations will be deployed early next year. A zero value in that data just indicates that at the time of that phasing, the exact number of docks were TBD.

Happy to answer any other questions I can. 

Permalink Reply by Elliot Greenberger (Divvy) on June 19, 2013 at 5:05pm

To be clear, Divvy did not provide that data publicly. It was extracted from a file we used to populate the initial map. We'll have accurate data for developers as we launch.  

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on June 19, 2013 at 5:17pm

No. What is it?

Duppie 13.5185km said:

Ever heard of 80/20?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on June 19, 2013 at 6:04pm

I've added the Divvy stations to MassUp.us

Smartphone users can now find the nearest Divvy station automatically, even get directions to it or between them. Use the MassUp.us Nearby feature or bookmark the Divvy finder as a webapp. It works on any smartphone or PC, is free, and requires no installation.


Give it a try: http://massup.us/divvy


To deal with uncertainty, the icon size and opacity decreases with phase number. I'll refine this as data improves.

Permalink Reply by Michelle S on June 19, 2013 at 7:45pm

It has been pointed out to me by someone who works near Michigan and Lake that the edge of the planters along Michigan are a very popular spot to eat lunch or just sit and enjoy the scene, and this placement may not be viewed as optimal by those who enjoy the current configuration, once bikes are added and there's no room for legs. I'm just throwing this out there FWIW. I'm glad these stations can be relocated if needed.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on June 19, 2013 at 8:08pm

Footrests!

Michelle Stenzel said:

It has been pointed out to me by someone who works near Michigan and Lake that the edge of the planters along Michigan are a very popular spot to eat lunch or just sit and enjoy the scene, and this placement may not be viewed as optimal by those who enjoy the current configuration, once bikes are added and there's no room for legs. I'm just throwing this out there FWIW. I'm glad these stations can be relocated if needed.

Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on June 26, 2013 at 7:07pm

Article in the trib on this.  Its launching this Friday through Sunday...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-divvy-bike-sharing-...

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on June 26, 2013 at 7:26pm

Thanks for posting this, chixie!  I just downloaded the app that Hilkevitch mentions in this article to my Android phone (it's available for iPhone as well) called CycleFinder.  CycleFinder is put out by Public Bike System Company (Bixi, the Montreal-based partner to Portland's Alta). The app is oddly linked to two other cities, Aspen (Colorado) & Chattanooga (Tennessee), so I can find an open share bike in either of those towns as well as Chicago.  There is a nice timer feature that allows you to keep an eye on how long you've had your Divvy, so as not to exceed 30 minutes.  No available bikes or kiosks appear on the app's Chicago map or list, so it's dormant until they flip on the switch either tomorrow evening (for the pre-launch ride) or Friday morning for the official opening.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 26, 2013 at 8:29pm

Neat app. But it does show the distance from your location to the bike station in kilometers. Do those Canucks really think that that we Americans understand that?

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on June 26, 2013 at 8:51pm

We Americans will have to join the rest of the world eventually.  5/8 mile= 1 km is a pretty easy conversion to do, especially if you just think of "a little more than a half mile."

Or, if you're a total math geek, you can just recite the sequence of Fibonacci numbers; each number in the sequence equals miles while the next number up in the sequence equals the number of kilometers:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144…

where 3 miles equals 5 kilometers or 8 miles equals 13 km.

Weird but true:

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/cool-ma...

 

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on June 26, 2013 at 8:57pm

Isn't it farther if we measure it in kilometers?

Permalink Reply by Michelle S on June 26, 2013 at 9:13pm

Did I miss the announcement as to the exact time the system will be launched on Friday? I was hoping to ride a Divvy bike to work on Friday morning, or at least to go home in the evening.

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