Transportation
Mapping the Imbalances of New York's Popular, Troubled Bike-Share
Empty and full stations abound in this cash-strapped system.
Thursday was the first day of spring. According to Ed Rademaekers, it was also the worst day of the year for NotSpots in New York City.
Rademaekers recently coined the term NotSpot to describe a Citi Bike station that's either completely empty or completely full. As of 10:30 a.m. on March 20, 63 of New York's 330 stations were NotSpots - 59 empty and four full. That's 19 percent of the stations in the system, meaning Rademaeker's NotSpot Index (tracked on bikeshareNYC) was in the red zone. The index goes from red down through yellow and green to blue, when less than 5 percent of the system is in NotSpot territory. Since Rademaekers launched his site in January, blue hasn't appeared much.