Comments on See where CaBi riders went after the Nats game - Greater Greater Washington

Comment by David C

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:57:10 EDT

There are real opportunities for using bikes as a way to get to/from games like this, but bikeshare is a horrible idea.

Why is it a horrible idea? Do the people who chose it think it was horrible? It is not a complete solution, but it is a part of improved mobility.

Comment by Crickey7

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:12:58 EDT

On a per-person basis, that 1% got transported more cheaply in terms of transportation infrastructure than all but walkers. Even as one scales up, it puts disproportionately lower demands on the infrastrucutre it uses than other methods.

Comment by JustMe

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:50:14 EDT

10% of the systems bikes got used for this to move less than 200 people.

Isn't that a tautology? Moving 200 people via bikeshare always uses 10% of the system's bikes, because the system has close to 2000 bicycles.

Comment by David J

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:13:54 EDT

Were those bikes or errant baseballs?

Comment by Kyle-w

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:16:18 EDT

@Charlie

So I got it being about .5%. Regardless, it gave those 200 people another option of how to get to the game. What is wrong with that?

Comment by charlie

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:36:26 EDT

I made this point on washcycle already, so not to be a bore, but bikeshare was less than .05 percent of people who attended that game, and bikes as a whole a bit more than 1%.

There are real opportunities for using bikes as a way to get to/from games like this, but bikeshare is a horrible idea. 10% of the systems bikes got used for this to move less than 200 people.

Comment by Erik

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:54:19 EDT

@JJJ, water taxi I'm sure :)

Comment by JJJ

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:19:44 EDT

Payton, theres actually a blob that goes to Alexandria, floating lazily down the blue.

Comment by Payton

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:06:02 EDT

@JJJ: Yeah, I wonder why someone biked to the Jefferson Memorial afterwards. Maybe it was a chained trip, and s/he grabbed a new bike just before proceeding over the bridge, or maybe s/he went to commiserate with Tom about how Teddy's cursed the Nats.

Comment by M.V. Jantzen

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:44:48 EDT

@MDE The animation was made using Processing - see Creating Animation with Processing (and for more examples, see Watching Bikeshare Stations Grow Unbalanced).

Comment by JJJ

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:14:31 EDT

Poor bastard fell into the river :(

Comment by MDE

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:47:53 EDT

Cool stuff. Does anyone know what sort of software can generate animations like this?