Photo by Mr.TinDC.

Capital Bikeshare could grow by 99 stations—and double east of the Anacostia—in D.C. over the next three years under a six-year draft plan released today by the District Department of Transportation.

Currently, about 26,00 people have annual or 30-day memberships to the bikesharing system, and they are served by 202 stations in the District (there are 355 throughout the region.) Under the plan, that would jump to 249 in 2016, 276 in 2017, and 301 in 2018. Another 21 stations would be expanded, including busy hubs around the U Street Metro, Logan Circle at P Street, and Dupont Circle, in 2016 and 2017.

The expansion plan by year (Courtesy of DDOT.)

Currently, 40 percent of residents and 80 percent of jobs in the District are within a quarter mile walk of a CaBi station. Under the new plan, DDOT estimates that 65 percent of residents, 90 percent of jobs, and 97 percent of all transit entry and exit points in D.C. would be within a quarter mile walk of a station by 2018.

But the report also makes note of the lopsided demographics of who is using the service. The short version: it has gotten older, whiter, richer. So in addition to expanding capacity in the downtown core and filling in stations in high ridership areas, they plan to add 27 stations east of the Anacostia.

Courtesy of DDOT.

“This plan sets the District’s portion of Capital Bikeshare on a path toward continued growth, greater inclusivity, and financial sustainability,” DDOT director Leif Dormsjo said in an introduction to the Bikeshare Development Plan.

Under the proposed scenario, estimated total ridership would jump from 2.8 million in 2016 to 4.2 million in 2021. But annual revenue losses would still be around $1.7 million (because operating costs would be substantially higher, the recovery ratio would increase from 70 percent to 84 percent).

Read the full report here, and offer comment on the plan online by November 15.