On March 16th the entire Metrorail organization inward Washington DC was near down. Operations were all of a precipitous suspended on the network in addition to thus that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority could acquit out emergency inspections of electrical cables. Thousands of commuters were given only one-half a day's honor of the shutdown in addition to were left alongside footling fourth dimension to adapt option way of travel.
One trial 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 jump inward involve for Capital Bikeshare bikes in addition to the wheel docking stations which saw the biggest increment inward activeness on March 16th.
A Day alongside No Metro shows which parts of the Capital Bikeshare network saw the most traffic every bit the network coped alongside a 21 per centum jump inward involve (compared alongside 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 exhibit the increment inward traffic at wheel docking stations on March 16th. The map too allows y'all to sentiment the total of traffic at stations on the previous Wednesday. You tin refine the information shown on the map to exhibit bikes borrowed yesteryear all users, casual members in addition to registered members.
You tin read to a greater extent than nigh the map in addition to the patterns of increased traffic on the Capital Bikeshare network on the Mobility Lab blog.
