Oak Park kills Divvy program
2018-01-18 01:34:33.157064+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Oak Park IL kills its Divvy bike share program:
Divvy cost taxpayers $17.48 for every ride, Andrews said in a Facebook post. Trustee Andrea Button clarified that Divvy was subsidized by parking fees, not by taxes, but the high cost was hung around the program’s neck: a $35 subsidy for each round-trip bike ride.
Ouch. But/and: if you've got essentially suburbs, everyone has room to park their own bike. Spending the parking fees on other ways to make that district better (including bicycle amenities) seems like a much smarter way to go.