The Washington Cyclist Explosion

On March 16th the entire Metrorail organization inward Washington DC was near down. Operations were of a abrupt suspended on the network then that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority could demeanour out emergency inspections of electrical cables. Thousands of commuters were given but one-half a day's discovery of the shutdown together with were left amongst piffling fourth dimension to conform option agency of travel.

One upshot of the Metrorail shutdown was an explosion inward the numbers of people using the Capital Bikeshare network. Mobility Lab has created an interactive map which visualizes this restrain inward require for Capital Bikeshare bikes together with the cycle docking stations which saw the biggest increment inward activeness on March 16th.

A Day amongst No Metro shows which parts of the Capital Bikeshare network saw the most traffic equally the network coped amongst a 21 pct restrain inward require (compared amongst the previous Wednesday). 223 stations (63%) saw an increment inward traffic. Some stations genuinely saw a decrease inward traffic.

The map uses scaled markers to present the increment inward traffic at cycle docking stations on March 16th. The map besides allows y'all to thought the sum of traffic at stations on the previous Wednesday. You tin refine the information shown on the map to present bikes borrowed past times all users, casual members together with registered members.

You tin read to a greater extent than almost the map together with the patterns of increased traffic on the Capital Bikeshare network on the Mobility Lab blog.