# Where the bikes are, right now

> Every Santander docking station, and whether it has anything left in it.

- Category: Transport
- Cadence: live
- Status: Live: values change continuously; cite the retrieval time.
- Dataset key: `live-bikes`
- Source: [TfL Unified API](https://api.tfl.gov.uk/BikePoint)
- Licence: TfL Open Data Licence — [terms](https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/transport-data-service)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/santander-docks-live](https://londongraph.com/g/santander-docks-live)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/santander-docks-live](https://londongraph.com/data/santander-docks-live)

## Methodology

All 790-odd docking stations from TfL BikePoint, coloured by the share of their stands still holding a bike. Empty means nothing to take; full means nowhere to put one. Both are failures of the same redistribution problem, and both cluster at predictable ends of the commute.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/santander-docks-live): Every Santander docking station, and whether it has anything left in it.
- [Bikes vs spaces](https://londongraph.com/g/santander-docks-live?view=bikes-spaces): Compare bikes available with empty spaces at every dock.
- [Dock pressure](https://londongraph.com/g/santander-docks-live?view=dock-pressure): Rank docking stations by available bikes.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.