Assessing system recovery after the New Year’s Storm

What happened at the bike sharing stations wasn’t what kept us off the streets after the snowstorm,  was it now? Still somebody’s gotta keep track of these things.

The longest NotSpots

We put the beginning of the storm at Jan 2 at 8pm, or 20:00. And we mark the end of the event at 15:15 Jan. 6 when the S 3 St & Bedford Ave station in Williamsburg hosted its first bicycle in 91.75 hours. In Manhattan, Liberty St & Broadway takes the prize, out for 71 hours ending Jan 5 at 18:45

Manhattan NotSpot duration

Jan 4.  21 notstops, 14 hours average

Jan 5   14 notstops, 16 hours average

Jan 6    8 notstops, 14 hours average

Jan 7 (to 1 pm) 15 notstops, 11 hours average

Brooklyn NotSpot duration

Jan 4.  2 notstops, 17 hours average

Jan 5   4 notstops, 31 hours average

Jan 6    12 notstops, 22 hours average

Jan 7 (to 1 pm) 2 notstops, 15 hours average

We wish we could say what a normal average duration is, but we don’t know that yet.

So let's rekindle some old grudges

The one thing we see is that Manhattan fared better than Brooklyn.  While compiling stats, we saw evidence of rebalancing at 9 Manhattan stations.  Rebalancing is when the system operators replenish a station by the truckload.
We never saw a rebalancing take place in Brooklyn. When a station came back online it was because a Sharer dropped a bike off. Here's an example of rebalancing:

Going forward
One thing we do hope to see is the average length of a NotSpot coming down, way down.