I’m wondering if that would even be possible, to increase bike balancing. They already have difficulty with getting to the downtown stations on regular morning rush hours. (Evenings too.) If there was heavier than usual car traffic, the rebalancing vans wouldn’t have been able to make extra trips.
CaBi might have been useful for some people who were traveling around the downtown core, but it wouldn’t have been able to handle a huge rush of extra riders from Metro.
That said, rider numbers are usually much lower in December than they are in the spring and early summer. I didn’t see any bike trip numbers, but I did check the CaBi map to see what the station/bike situation looked like yesterday, a couple hours after the morning peak. Most of the usual downtown stations were full, but I did notice that some stations around McPherson Square and Metro Center had more than a few empty docks. Not something I would normally expect there. Then again, that may have more to do with the fact that it’s December. The dock/bike numbers look somewhat similar today as yesterday. I don’t know what that means, but it’s the only data I have right now.
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