Nicholas Riehle, MUPP

The symbol of freedom

Densified Divvy station outside City Hall

Densified Divvy station outside City Hall

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

Bike racks in a subway car!

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

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

Two bike racks on sidewalk

Two bike racks on sidewalk

New bike racks on sidewalk

New bike racks on sidewalk

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

Divvy station on sidewalk

Divvy station on sidewalk

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.

Divvy station on sidewalk

Divvy station on sidewalk

Divvy station on two sides of the sidewalk

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.

Meme about how building more bike infrastructure is better for drivers but often the empathy needed to know that is missing from their personality

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

Bike infrastructure IS Car infrastructure

New Divvy station with Chicago draw bridge in the background

"Ride On" ad with Divvy bike on it attached to Divvy station

Divvy stations on both sides of Kinzie

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!

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

AI

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)

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!

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...

Love mcfetridge

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

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!

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...

Bike rack outside Marz brewing

Bike racks outside of CTA station

Bike racks outside of Chicago Public Library

Bike racks outisde of cafe and roastery

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?

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...

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/...

Densified and electrified divvy station on sidewalk

Densified and electrified divvy station on sidewalk

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.

2 E-bikes laden with total of 6 packages to ride to the post office

“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