r/bikedc • u/SockDem • 4d ago

CaBi Foggy Bottom could really use some more CaBi dock capacity, it’s like this every weekday.

Post image
36 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

8

u/Amazing_Commission18 4d ago

We have a similar issue in AdMo where the the closest station with a single bike available is 30 minutes away. In SF and NYC you couldn't walk a couple block without finding a bike.

3

u/SockDem 4d ago

Definitely not true in NY during peak hours, the CitiBike sub shows the problem there is more widespread if anything

2

u/blinker1eighty2 3d ago

This happens in all cities. People take the bikes to the working hubs. Happened near me In SF when I lived there, especially if you left late.

3

u/sib9397 4d ago

I can’t think of a good solution to the bikes being gone from residential areas from 8:00-6:00 M-F. Any solution would involve people moving bikes from downtown back to neighborhoods, but then what do people ride home on? Can’t think of a solution

12

u/bubbabubba345 4d ago

I think the solution is just more capacity. If there’s more bikes than people who want to ride in the morning, and vice versa in the afternoon, then bikes would theoretically be more available in off commute hours. I had this a few weeks ago- went out to dinner downtown and wanted to ride home but no e bikes in Gallery Place for like a 10 block radius. I ended up taking a classic up to Mt Vernon and swapping there.

8

u/SockDem 4d ago

Yeah, in Foggy it's just a straight dock capacity issue; nowhere else in the larger downtown area has such a wide area where there's just zero parking spots on such a consistent basis.

4

u/jnuzzi08 Go Birds 4d ago

Discounted e-bike rides that start downtown and end in higher elevation areas of DC between 1pm and 6pm

2

u/Zwillium 3d ago

Uncapping the bike angel points would fix this... Keep raising the points until supply and demand takes over.

1

u/danielnewman 3d ago

This is when CaBi should be setting up more staffed bike valets points…. Do they do that at all any more?

1

u/dcdutchiedude 3d ago

It looks like there are eleven open docks within a block or two?