I’m hearing so many complaints about CaBi and I’m stunned. I’ve been using it for a month and have had a great experience. I live near Lincoln Park and have had to ride to 3rd & D when the station is full. I’ve waited 3 minutes twice for bikes to show when none were there but 3 minutes is still far less time then I would have waited for the bus.
There is constantly a CaBi van at the Lincoln Park station rebalancing bikes. In the last month CaBi announced the addition of a 3rd rebalancing van and additional smaller vehicles and last week Spotcycle announced their app will update every minute instead of every five, making dock availability more reliable.
I think people are over reacting a bit with some of their complaints. The system has been open for just under 7 months and has seen a doubling in that time. Is it a perfect system? No, but considering the complexity and the fact that they do seem to be rapidly trying to both expand and iron our the kinks claiming the system is a failure is overboard.
