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Ugh, these bikes have been horrible in Shanghai. I loved the idea when it first came out last summer, but they’ve gotten to be a plague. Every block is choked w
by jmknoll 9y ago
Ugh, these bikes have been horrible in Shanghai. I loved the idea when it first came out last summer, but they’ve gotten to be a plague. Every block is choked with these bikes, but you’re more likely to see their handlebars sticking out of a pond than to see them actually being ridden.
It’s a cool idea, and I’m still optimistic, but I can’t think of a city where this idea works well. Riding a mobike is rough when it’s hot, or when it’s cold. It’s imposible in a city that’s not flat. And in cities where biking is nice, people already have bikes.
Interested to see where this goes, but pretty cautiously optimistic
- morsch 9y agoBerlin has had dockless bike share since 2000; largely, I think, without these issues.
- Cerium 9y agoMaybe they are a problem in Shanghai, but they seemed to be doing great in Xiamen when I was last there. The city made parking areas in every block that you should leave them in, and people generally seemed to do so.
- wzsddtc 9y agoThey have been in Changsha as well. I have only heard good things about it. The city is much smaller than Shanghai and people rely on it for the last km when they get off the few subway lines that exist there.
- odiroot 9y agoI'm in Chengdu, Sichuan right now. There's literally 2-3 hundreds of Mobike/Ofo bikes nearby every metro station or shopping centre. But it seems people at least try to put them in rows and local security (there's rarely a public space that's really public) shouts at people for dropping bikes randomly. Around midnight the maintenance workers check every bike for damages / battery level and take them back to warehouses leaving just a few dozens in a neatly ordered lines. What's more at least Ofo notifies you that the bike you used was park against the rules. They probably give you a few strikes and then terminate your account.
- usrusr 9y agoNice to hear about someone actually trying to tackle the problem instead of simply playing a numbers game until it ultimately fails
- PantaloonFlames 9y agoSounds like a reasonable system.