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@11th

The rebalancing isn't compensating for people not riding bikes up the hill; people do ride the bikes up the hill every day. If you look at the animated map and the graphs for each station uphill (http://bikes.oobrien.com/index.php?city=washingtondc) people are riding the bikes up there from around 5PM onward.

The rebalancing takes bikes from stations that are full and moves them back into the empty areas (north in the morning, south in the evening) so people can take more trips during those one-way periods. It looks like they rebalance way more in the morning commute time (bringing bikes up to U Street and north) than in the evening though.

It's wrong to say that everyone is riding the bikes downtown in the morning and then CaBi has to drag them all back uphill in the evening. That's not happening.

by MLD on Jun 8, 2011 9:01 am • link • report

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