City divvies nine bike share stations to River North

11-Aug-13 – (Left) This Divvy bike share station at State Street and Wacker Drive is one of the very latest installed in the past six weeks. There are now nine Divvy stations in River North with another three rolling in soon. Citywide, 117 stations are up but that should increase to 300 by the end of the year and 400 by next spring.

Each station has a touch-screen kiosk, station map, and a docking system that releases a bicycle to a member with a key or ride code. The bikes are available for $7 for a 24-hour pass or $75 for an annual membership, of which the city says it has sold nearly 4,000.

906 bicycles are blue. One is red. Lucky riders who get that bike – what Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein called “the unicorn of Divvy bikes” – can win a free annual membership.

Chicago is now the fourth-largest public bike system in the nation, behind New York, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis.

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