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Bike sharing. A delusional ideal from the last decade. The idea that any American urban downtown could be turned into Amsterdam if people were supplied with a bike rental system. Cars would disappear and we would all live in the endless 15-minute city, biking to cafes before typing up a novel on the latest iPad.
Reality caught up a while back with bike sharing, soon displaced by the ubiquitous electric scooters, themselves displaced by the fact that neither bike sharing not scooter rentals ever made any sense.
But there’s one demographic that’s finding a use for Chicago’s Divvy system.
Police said a group of two to four people threatens their victims before steals their belongings, all while riding Divvy bikes, in most cases.
In one case, they even stole a victim’s car.
“I just think it’s nuts, like, the whole idea. They just get on these bikes and go away,” said Felicia Davis, who works downtown.
Police are now searching for the armed group steering into trouble in the bike lanes.
“Hopefully they stop, or if they are listening, then please stop. There are other ways to make money,” Brandon Wong said.
It’s just like Paris!
The much-heralded bicycle rental scheme in Paris seems to be a resounding success.
Launched in July, the “Velib” bikes were part of the Paris mayor’s idea of making the city more ecologically friendly and reducing traffic. Just two months on, the self-service bicycles have clocked some 3.7 million rides and seem to be changing the way people get around the city.
No wonder Chicago’s mayor Richard Daley dropped this week to go for a spin. Daley says he thinks the bikes could work in Chicago.
And they have. Take this story from 2021.
A man on his bike was riding through a busy intersection right downtown this week, when he was suddenly surrounded, pushed, and then pulled off the bicycle.
The thief and his crew were gone in seconds. And on Thursday night, neighbors told CBS 2’s Jermont Terry it is a growing a problem in the heart of the Loop, and it is only getting worse.
It was a random attack on Wednesday night at Madison Street and Wabash Avenue. The Divvy bikes you see around town helped the crew get away.
The assault involved up to seven people. The assailants were all on Divvy bikes, essentially waiting for someone to target.
Finally someone has figured out how to use bike sharing for something.
Watch ” no place to place” great video on the bike or scooter share scam.
The underserved community has an unmet need for getaway vehicles.
I wonder if anyone ever thought of riding that bike out of the underserved community and making a better life for themselves?
I personally know at least 20 illegals that have come within the last year–none speak english worth a turd—they have all found work, and have yet had to move into an underserved community.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE UP WITH THAT?????HOW????
There must be some kind of cultural difference that is occurring in underserved communities.
War on poverty?
Yeah, when you see a group of hoodlums, best to avoid them.
And by “hoodlums.” you really mean blacks. We all know who commits robberies and gangs up on people.
You are a racist for believing your eyes.
I like black girls, though.
But Dumbacraps rarely wear signs
Well, at least they have another sport to play now besides night basketball. The Tour de France is not half as exciting as the Tour de Chicago.
The Tour de Congo?
lol, good one. Survive the Tour de Congo and win a prize!
Bicycles are a sign of communism. Children and peasants ride bicycles, We are being prepared for the upcoming peasant country we will be expected to live and obey the elites who run it.
And get around on bicycles.
Can you imagine biking in Chicago in January?
I can’t imagine riding a bikey even in Spring and Summer here in balmy San Jose. It’s a way to be killed by a car on the best of days. I notice derelicts ride around on stolen bicycles. Why save up for a car when you can steal a bike and humiliate yourself riding it for transportation? Shameless scum. I hate them.
And I wouldn’t live in Shitcago with the feral Groids if you paid me.
I saw a funny vid on that, some guy peddling for all he was worth on a kid’s bike in Chicago in a snowstorm, “Really needs that rock.” And a meme, that said, “Only white ppl think of bike riding as a sport. I know a crackhead who’d smoke the whole tour de france on a barbie bike.”
I see derelicts riding GIRL’S bikes. Shameless scum.
Yeah, that’s a sure proof the bike was stolen. Seen that a lot.
The Wildy City still under the Democrat Wind Heads nothing has changed and nothing with ever change just as long as they keep electing Democrat Wind Heads
Social trust is nonexistent in multiculti communities. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have something like this?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/shetland-cake-fridges-and-honesty-boxes
What is next? Urban governments providing gun sharing facilities? That would be the most basic way to let the customers work out the redistribution of wealth.