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Living in Shanghai, closing on 2000km on mobike only. Try going to the flower market on wanhangdu lu and you'll get an idea of the abuse of both bikes and pavem
by sberder 9y ago
Living in Shanghai, closing on 2000km on mobike only. Try going to the flower market on wanhangdu lu and you'll get an idea of the abuse of both bikes and pavement. I love the service and I think it's a fantastic alternative to pubic transports/taxi/DiDi but you can't deny the absolute lack of care of a lot of users.
I regularly see:
* Bikes locked with a separate lock
* Bikes parked inside compounds you can't access
* Bikes parked inside a building on any given floor (it's normal here for people to park their bike or electric scooter just outside their door even in high rise)
* Bikes parked on the street in the middle of traffic
Even with those behaviors, those companies have completely reshaped the way people move in Chinese cities.
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- sr_fahrenheit 9y agoThis mirrors my experience in Berlin. In nice neighbourhoods you see the bikes parked nicely, in rougher ones like where I live you often see them scattered on the road, half broken. Being Berlin, I bet there's also lots of anti-capitalist rage against them - I see a lot of them around my train station with a flat back wheel and I suspect it's from the same angry person, and all this started happening when they got rebranded from DB-bikes (DB is the national train company, someone correct me if it's actuall private) into Lidl bikes and got rid of the requirement of parking at docking stations at the same time that more companies started appearing. I bet also if you go to Frankfurt or München you don't see this kind of carnage.