Stephanie Kemen was in a car with her boyfriend on the Dan Ryan Expressway when she spotted the unmistakable — and unbelievable — blue of a Divvy bike.
“I felt so bad for her,” Kemen said. “I think at first we were laughing … but her legs looked tired, and she’s in this tiny little lane. We were nowhere near an exit, right before the 55-split, so there was no way she was getting off.”
She said her boyfriend, who was driving, rolled down the car window and told the woman she was not supposed to be biking there.
“She was like, ‘I know, I know,’ and you could hear in her voice that she was scared s***less,” Kemen said. “We have no idea how she got there, and no idea how she eventually got off.”
Kemen said she called 311 after seeing the cyclist around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, and later reported the incident to the Illinois State Police.
State police responded to multiple calls of an “elderly” woman riding a bike southbound on the Dan Ryan near 18th Street, but by the time troopers got there, she was nowhere to be found, according to a state trooper, who said she had likely exited the Ryan near 22nd Street.
Divvy General Manager Elliot Greenberger said bike share officials heard of the incident “through social media” but had no further information to share.
Chicago Tribune reporter Rosemary R. Sobol contributed to this report.
