What’s up with the massive field of Divvy bikes sitting in a West Town vacant lot? – Streetsblog Chicago

“For a while we simply didn’t have replacement front brakes for the OG blue bikes and were slapping on ones from retired bikes,” the former Divvy worker wrote. The said there was a general sense of dysfunction at the maintenance facility. “We didn’t even have adequate trash cans in the warehouse… Now it’s completely undersized for the scale of the operation among dealing with the logistical challenges of lock anywhere ebikes and swapping a crazy amount of batteries.”