Busy weekend for Mag Mile Divvy station

15-Apr-14 – Saturday’s warm weather inspired bicycle rides for many Chicagoans. The city set a new single-day record for most rentals of Divvy bikes. 10,866 rides were taken on the shared bikes, beating the old record from last September.

Of the 300 Divvy stations in the city, Magnificent Mile had the fourth busiest on Saturday. 253 trips started at the station at Michigan Avenue & Oak Street and 276 trips ended there. (Left) A Divvy bicycle share station covered in snow on January 6. (Click on image to view larger version.)

The most popular station was near Navy Pier, at Illinois Street & Streeter Drive.

Since the system launched last June, people on Divvy bikes have taken more than one million trips and traveled an estimated two million miles.

 Real-time status of downtown Divvy stations: bike.loopnorth.com