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#CaBi
#CaBi #Bikeshare ridership increases continue to be insane
https://ggwash.org/view/100217/bikeshare-beat-through-june-2025-cabi-annual-ridership-is-up-28.8
2nd in the nation only behind NYC
CaBi prices going up next year: https://capitalbikeshare.com/blog/2025priceupdate
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A Capital Bikeshare Bike Angels strategy guide for beginners
It took me a few years of having a Capital Bikeshare membership to realize that I could zero out the cost of an annual membership by using CaBi to replace enough Metro trips. I needed much longer to realize that I could outright make money off the D.C. area’s growing bikeshare system.
That’s thanks to CaBi’s Bike Angels program, which offers a menu of rewards to riders for picking up bikes from docks with too few open slots and dropping them off at docks with too few bikes. The two kinds of rewards worth pursuing: e-bike credits to offset the 10 cents/min. cost of having an electric motor whir you along, and a choice of e-gift cards that require higher point totals.
In less than a year after I started seriously taking advantage of the program that I had joined in 2018 and then ignored, I’ve now racked up more than $200 in rewards value–far exceeding the $95 annual cost of my membership.
The first flavor of rewards is the easiest to claim: Just 10 points will get you $1 in e-bike credit, but you might as well hold off until you reach 80 and can convert that to $10 in credit that covers more than an hour and a half of free e-bike transportation.
The e-gift card rewards start at 100 points for a $10 e-gift card, but racking up 1,000 earns a $150 card. The redemption options on the one I earned in March, listed in a link in an e-mail sent 17 days after I redeemed those points: Amazon, Airbnb, Disney, DoorDash, REI, or Walmart.
That link also offered a choice of nonprofits to reward instead, some new to me: Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Everytown for Gun Safety, the First Nations Development Institution, Habitat for Humanity, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or the Trevor Project.
With either rewards option, the maximum value you can get out of a Bike Angel membership is 15 cents per point. The worst you can do is redeem 20 points to extend your membership by a week, under $1.83 in value.
(These redemption ceilings date to sometime early this year, when the program stopped offering a $200 e-gift card for 1,000 points and a $50 card for $300 points–which last year I got paid out to my PayPal account. Like an airline or hotel loyalty program, Bike Angels can inflict devaluations with no notice.)
Now that you know what you can get out of Bike Angels after joining this program in the app, here’s how you can go about putting a little effort into it:
- Always check the CaBi mobile app not just before going somewhere via bikeshare, but if you were also going to walk. Check again just before you undock a bike, because point values change often.
- Never take just one points-earning ride in a 24-hour period if you can help it, because that positive ride will double your points for the next 24 hours. After three more positive rides in 24 hours, you unlock triple earning.
- The most valuable rides start at a station that needs pickups, shown in the app with a black icon for the points value, and end at one that needs dropoffs, shown in white. You’re not crazy to go out of your way to squeeze in a ride for this reason alone, especially if you’ve already activated a points multiplier.
- Don’t be a jerk: If the closest dock to you only has one or two bikes left and you don’t have a non-points reason to take a ride from there, keep walking.
- Sometimes it’s not worth trying to game the system. You want to bikeshare into downtown D.C. in the morning like everybody else? Not only may you not get any points out of the ride, you can easily reset your streak by having to return a bike at a dock that needs pick-ups.
- If you don’t have an annual membership, ignore most of this advice because the $1 fee to start a ride and the subsequent 5 cents/min. charge for a regular bike will wipe out whatever value you could hope to earn in points. If a ride that you were going to take anyway offers points, consider that a tiny bonus.
Bike Angels also offers lifetime-achievement status like what you can achieve in an airline’s frequent-flyer program. Racking up 250 points earns “Joy Rider” status, plus a pin you can stick on your messenger bag and an extension of the 45-minute free-ride period you get with a membership to 60 minutes. The 500-point Casual Cruiser level gets you another pin and a large water bottle with the Bike Angel logo; they sent me two of those bottles by mistake. By reaching 1,500 points, I now have a fancy CaBi key fob and a third pin on the way, and I look forward to getting some CaBi-branded bike gloves and yet another pin at the 2,500-point mark sometime later this year.
At that point, I should probably ease off on this low-paying side hustle. But like Chris Person, the New York video-game journalist whose strategy guide to NYC’s CitiBike inspired this post, I guess I’m a sucker for a well-designed gamification scheme.
#BikeAngels #bikeshare #biking #CaBi #CapitalBikeshare #cycling #frequentTraveler #gamification #rewardsProgram
Capital Bikeshare continues to do bonkers ridership number increases - 36 *straight* months
Fiction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/20/bicycle-lanes-dc-traffic/
The WaPo opinions section about local transportation remains garbage, apparently.
#CaBi FYI: If you've been accumulating Bike Angel points and were wondering what kind of e-gift card Capital Bikeshare would send you, my 300-point redemption on July 31 for a $50 reward just yielded a choice of an Amazon.com card, ACH or PayPal.
I value $50 in cash higher than $50 at Amazon because any credit card I'd use there would offer cash or miles back, so I picked PayPal and got the full $50 moments later; it's now on its way to my bank account.
ANAHEIM, Calif.
The past two weeks of travel have involved different modes of transportation that separately surfaced the same defect on the screen of my aging phone: no support for the default payment system already enabled on the device.
Think of this as a two-hands problem: When a transit app doesn’t let you select Google Wallet or Apple Pay to pay for a ride, most people will have to fish a credit card out of a wallet or purse and hold it in one hand while thumb-typing the card’s digits into the app with the other. That’s not a great customer experience while sitting at a train station or bus stop, considerably worse when standing in a moving train or bus.
(I work around that by using 1Password to fill in saved credit-card info, but many people don’t use third-party password managers.)
The most recent offenders were Bike Share Toronto, which I used to get between two events at Collision two weeks ago, and Metrolink commuter rail in Los Angeles, which I used to get from L.A. to here Wednesday as part of a trip that’s combined getting some time in Waymo robotaxis with covering the VidCon conference here.
Those apps join a list of others that I’ve installed and seen exhibit the same shortfall: Las Vegas’s rideRTC, Boston’s mTicket, the Bay Area’s SMART, and Deutsche Bahn’s DB Navigator. Many of these apps credit the same app framework, Masabi’s Justride; a support note on that U.K. firm’s site mentions Apple Pay support but not Google Wallet, so maybe iPhone users don’t have this issue.
But these other apps on my phone show that paying for a fare on the go doesn’t have to take extra steps: Capital Bikeshare’s CaBi, Metro’s SmarTrip (which until a few months ago, was not in this category), Austin’s CapMetro, the Bay Area’s Clipper, for example.
I’d rather see transit agencies follow the examples of Chicago, New York and Portland by directly supporting tap-to-pay payments in stations and on buses so frequent travelers don’t have to collect transit apps the way infrastructure nerds like me collect transit smart cards. But that may involve a lot more work by transit agencies–and those unable to make that transition yet need to make it easier for customers to give them their money.
#BART #BikeShareToronto #bikeshare #CaBi #CapitalMetro #DBNavigator #Metro #Metrolink #NFC #SMART #SmarTrip #transitCards #transitFare #UX #WMATA
My city’s subway has done impressively well at recovering from its pandemic-induced collapse in ridership, but the transportation system that has rebounded better yet around Washington relies on only two wheels per vehicle.
And despite not having an everyday office to commute to and from, I’ve been along for much of this ride at Capital Bikeshare. Our bike-sharing service continues to serve as a convenient and cheaper alternative to Metro for trips into the District and between events in D.C., and a few other changes have further elevated CaBi’s role in my transportation toolkit.
One looked like a downgrade when it was announced in 2021 with inadequate advance notice: The increase in the annual membership fee from $85 to $95 also extended the length of a free ride for members on a regular bike from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. That means I can get from my house to Capitol Hill and points slightly beyond in a single ride without having to worry about having to stop midway to dock one bike and take out another.
Another arrived with less discussion than CaBi’s introduction of new, extra-cost e-bikes: updated “classic” bikes, distinguishable by a longer cargo shelf in front of the handlebars and a red fairing covering the top of the back wheel, that feature a continuously variable transmission instead of the three gears of the older bikes. Those newer rides are easier to take on moderately hillier routes, which means much of D.C. and its neighbors.
A third has come from local governments: The District and Arlington have done impressive work in adding bike lanes that aren’t just painted white lines but cycle tracks split from car traffic by concrete dividers.
Then I bought a bike helmet that I can easily grab for most trips: a Closca folding model, which I picked up on sale at $60 on Amazon after reading the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute’s approving assessment of it among other foldable helmets. This neatly solved two problems I’d had with using the helmet I’ve long worn for recreational rides on weekends: It’s not gross from caked-on sweat, and because its concentric rings snap folded in a second or two, I can tuck it into my regular laptop bag even with my laptop already there.
Millions of other Washington-area cyclists seem to agree with my assessment of CaBi. Its public stats show that the service–operated by Motivate, a company the ride-hailing firm Lyft bought in 2018–has grown from 337,704 trips in May of 2019 to 515,394 in May of 2024. That remains far below Metro’s daily ridership even as dented by continued remote work, yet it’s still good enough to vault our bikeshare system past Chicago’s to become the second most-used bikeshare network in the U.S.
Finally, almost 23 years after my overdue introduction to CaBi, I’ve taken the bait of its Bike Angels rewards program, which offers kickbacks to cyclists who take bikes out of stations nearing capacity or park bikes at those nearing emptiness. This neatly slots into the intersection between my fondness for gamification schemes and my readiness to overthink any commercial transaction, and so far it’s only required me to alter my bikeshare routine in three ways to cash in. First I check the CaBi app for stations offering an extra incentive for dropoffs or pickups, then I alter my own course accordingly as long as it’s not more than two or three blocks out of the way, and finally I redouble those efforts when the app says I can earn double or triple points.
And once you convert those points in the app for e-bike credit–the sliding redemption scale encourages holding off, because 80 points for $10 beats 10 points for $1–you can burn those rewards on speedier e-bike rides that in turn generate outsized rewards when a Bike Angels bonus activates. For a more detailed look into how these incentives can twist a cyclist’s behavior, see Chris Person’s strategy guide to the equivalent system at New York’s considerably more expensive Citi Bike.
I’m not going to say that all of this amounts to one giant leap towards the Copenhagenification of D.C. But all of these small steps combined have made this place a better place for getting around without so many cars.
6/15/2024: I rewrote the last paragraph after a better conclusion popped into my head not long after I woke up Saturday and added a little more explanation of Bike Angels.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/14/bikeshare-keeps-rolling-along/
#BikeAngels #bikeCommuting #bikeshare #biking #CaBi #CapitalBikeshare #CloscaHelmet #CloscaHelmetLoop #cycling #foldingBikeHelmet #gamification #Lyft #micromobility #Motivate
Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig (2021)
https://zig.news/kristoff/extend-a-c-c-project-with-zig-55di
#ycombinator #cpp #cabi #ziglang #zig
Would be nice if the shopping center had a #cabi #bikeshare station to start closing up the somewhat substantial gap in coverage on the west side of the county between Bluemont & Columbia pike.
Finally stopped rainning (for the most part) for the #alexandriava Scottish parade. And yeah, due to #wmata headways, a wet #cabi #bikeshare ride was faster way to get here from central #arlingtonva
Hey #bikedc! Have you noticed that #cabi #bikeshare has been rolling out new classic bikes lately? They’re nice and smooth, and in top-top shape.
You can identify them easily because they’re the only ones with an ID number on the seat stay:
They are changing out the Capital Bikeshare docks at the Ballston Metro station. #bikedc #bikearlington #arlingtonva #cabi
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