Nope.
And the picture posted clearly shows the eBikes original locations.
Randolph, between Michigan Avenue and the lake, has three levels of road traffic. Upper, middle, and lower. (A hold over from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871)
Unless you're walking up the steps (shown in the pic) Lower Randolph (generic term) at Columbus, on the second level, is not easily accessible by roads to the Columbus and Upper Randolph docking station where the eBikes ended up being docked
The picture shows the eBikes are on the lower Randolph level, basically a non-walking street, "abandoned" by people attending Lollapalooza, but not allowed to proceed further by the closed off road.
The two quickest routes from there to the Randolph and Columbus dock... You either ride all the way on the 2nd level to the lake front trail and back up through Peanut Park to Randolph, or up the ramp to Michigan Avenue and back against the flow of Upper Randolph traffic through the narrow one lane of traffic caused by the up ramp.
While in Chicago it's not encouraged to ride against the flow of traffic, it is not something that is penalizing BA.
Per usual, the GPS in the app is not accurately deplicting the route taken and reflecting the two levels of Randolph Street .
Time is also not an accurate representation of the routing, because eBikes are fast and can cover a lot of ground in 3 minutes, especially in Chicago where there are many docking stations.
It's also a challenge finding bikes, when the app shows the bike are on "Randolph" but can not differentiate between the levels. You don't know which level the bike is on.
That was the case this time after searching, it finally dawned on me the bikes were below "street level"
I will say, riding against traffic, into the traffic flow, in Paris, is 100% allowed by the law.
As crazy as it sounds, on many of the narrowest of one-way traffic streets, even streets with cars parked on both sides, in Paris, there are clear street markings allowing bikes to ride head on into the one-way traffic flow, and the cars have to deal with it. Paris is that bike friendly.
