About a month ago, I complained about the reliability of the data shown in the SpotCycle app. Well, never mind. This morning SpotCycle was very accurate, at least for tracking the CaBi station at 15th and K Street.

What was a bit harrowing was watching the spaces available drop from 10 to 6 as I headed toward my destination. (I was checking when I pulled up at a stop lights). When I arrived at the station, sure enough, there were six spots left. About 20 seconds after I docked, I refreshed the app, and the number dropped to five.

Anyway, here are my stats after 163 rides on the big red bikes.

An interesting post from David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington:

Transit has more capacity at peak times when there are more vehicles. It costs money to run a vehicle, so you run it when there’s demand. Therefore, bus lines in particular are far more useful at times when there are a lot of buses. At some times of day, they don’t run at all. Bike sharing is the opposite. It has a fixed capacity that fills up quickly, but is always available. Bike sharing is most useful off-peak, when the stations aren’t filling up or emptying out so fast. It’s always available at night. For this reason, we can think of it actually as a complement to short-distance buses. Someone who lives on a bus line might find that the bus is a better choice during rush, but bikeshare is better middays.

The first half of that last sentence has been my recent experience, although only in the morning. Still, I’m thinking about taking my own bicycle to work. Just found out about the big bike racks in garage of my office building.