Bike Angels in the Outfield
Back when the weather was a bit cooler in the mornings during May, I was doing some Citibike Bike Angel Point gathering in the morning before my bike ride to commute into work. While there, I was presented with an economic dilemma of sorts. Let's do the numbers. THE SETUP: My starting station (green dot in the image above) at the north end of Grand Army Plaza was at a neutral status ("0", meaning 0pts for pickup or dropoff) while my dropoff station at the SE end (the turnaround point in the image above) was a "-6." (meaning 0pts for pickup, 6 points for dropoff) This makes for an easy 0.2mi, 2min arbitrage on a painted two-way bike lane, great. FOR THE UNINITIATED: here's what the bike angel map looks like. Black tiles are pickup stations (arrow pointing away) and the white tiles are drop off stations. (arrow pointing inwards) Pink is part of the Lyft sponsorship highlighting the higher value stations. The values change every 15 minutes depending on curre...