#DIVVY BIKES CHICAGO FREE#
In an effort to reduce financial hardship for people with Divvy for Everyone (D4E) $5 memberships, available to Chicagoans making $35,310 or less, D4E members would be given $10 in free credit, good for surcharges and parking fees, each month for the next year. The regular Divvy annual membership fee would be raised to $119, and the per-minute surcharge for e-bikes for regular members would go up by a penny to 16 cents (although the non-station parking fee would go down from $2 to $1.) Under the new fee structure, the waiver zone would be eliminated, meaning that the special e-bike charges would apply everywhere in the coverage zone. On April 11, the Chicago Department of Transportation, which oversees the system, and Lyft announced the upcoming changes, as well as the impending launch of Divvy’s dockable e-scooters. Since theses Chicagoans often have no choice but to use the e-bikes, Divvy’s old pricing system helped level the playing field by waiving the time surcharge and non-station fee for trips beginning or ending in the waiver zone. So residents south of Pershing or west of Western generally have less convenient, or nonexistent, access to the blue bikes from their homes. In outlying communities, Lyft is only installing “E-stations,” glorified bike racks where only the electric bikes can be checked out or parked, and these are spaced farther apart than stations in more central neighborhoods. In contrast, parts of town outside those boundaries haver fewer full-service stations, or none at all.
#DIVVY BIKES CHICAGO PLUS#
The Divvy coverage area as of April 2022, including the waiver zone (green), and the fee zone east of Western and north of Pershing, plus Evanston (gray.) Note the generally lower density of stations in the waiver zone. But prior to the pricing change, members living in the fee zone who choose to ride the e-bikes paid a per-minute surcharge, as well as a non-station parking fee if they ended their trip by securing their cycle to a rack or pole using its built-in cable lock, rather than parking at a station. Divvy annual m embers, who were paying $108 a year before the price change, can take as many up-to-45-minute trips as they like on the blue bikes, which can only be checked out or parked at full-service docking stations, for no additional charge. The most important difference was the elimination of the electric bike “fee waiver zone” in parts of the city south of Pershing Road (3900 W.) or west of Western Avenue (2400 W.)Ĭhicagoans who live north of Pershing and east of Western, previously known as the “fee zone,” tend to have relatively convenient access to both the older, blue non-electric bikes (Divvy calls these “Classic” bikes), as well as the newer, black or gray electric bikes, from their homes. In early May, Lyft, the concessionaire for Chicago’s publicly-owned bike-share system Divvy, quietly and significantly changed the network’s pricing structure. Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí.
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