Bike Angel Points Harder to Acquire
Anyone else notice just how difficult it’s become to get Bike Angels points? Seems there are lots of points to be had in certain areas of the city, but they’re almost always exclusively drop off poi...
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It's interesting to return to this thread from four years ago because over the past few weeks I have seen big changes in the points offered on the Upper West Side up to Harlem. During 2024, one would regularly see "pink" stations, especially along Central Park West or Columbus. Now they are rare. In fact, for the last few morning, there have been only -1, 0, or +1 stations, and even with a 3x bonus, it's hard to engineer a 6 point ride. I'm out there for exercise, so it's not a crisis, but the transformation of point values is a head-scratcher because even stations with no bikes at all (e.g., 116th x Broadway) have minimal entry points. Maybe the algorithm has changed?
The algorithm has changed. There are very few pink points on the map. I’ve seen empty stations that offer 3 points for drop offs. Those same stations used to offer 12 points for drop offs. All of this occurred after wide-spread publicity about those Bike Angels who were gaming the system. The rest of us are paying the price for what a handful of Bike Angels were doing. Not good.
