Bike sharing scheme in China

[ianrauk]

Some amazing pictures of piles of parked, abandoned, dumped, seized and scrapped hire bikes in China

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[I like Skol]

What a waste and a huge amount of damage to the environment in the process.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Isn't Communism great, keeping their own people employed,

On side note we have those yellow bikes in Sheffield, they seem to be abandoned all over the city centre, only people I have seen riding them are the homeless

 

[ianrauk]

Isn't Communism great, keeping their own people employed,

On side note we have those yellow bikes in Sheffield, they seem to be abandoned all over the city centre, only people I have seen riding them are the homeless

I have a few of the yellow ones sitting right here just outside my office.

 

[mjr]

The yellow ones seem popular in Norwich, Cambridge and Granada.

The grey ones less so. Maybe because they're single speed while the yellow are three speed.

 

[Drago]

That's @biggs682's back garden.

 

[Milkfloat]

That's @biggs682's back garden.

You should have seen it before it sold the other half.

 

[User169]

I thought the picture in the OP was an aerial shot of flower fields.

 

[mjr]

Isn't Communism great, keeping their own people employed,

You could as easily write "isn't unregulated competition great, keeping production going wastefully far in excess of demand because it helps get market share"

 

[Fnaar]

Much as I support cycling schemes, etc, and have loved China on my 3 visits there (I even have a Chinese aunty) , the environmental horrors I saw over there were grim ... people fishing in a turquoise lake with 'steam' (not steam) rising from it ... a harbour so full of floating plastic its hard for boats to push through it ... etc etc.

 

[Globalti]

Amazing. That makes Manchester's couple of hundred Mobikes look like nothing.

 

[biggs682]

That's @biggs682's back garden.

You want to try getting the Red Quinn out from the middle of the first red pile on the top half out

You should have seen it before it sold the other half.

i have sold a few recently

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Isn't Communism great, keeping their own people employed,

On side note we have those yellow bikes in Sheffield, they seem to be abandoned all over the city centre, only people I have seen riding them are the homeless

I never go into the city if I can help it, but I have seen a couple of those bikes parked outside ASDA Handsworth before now. Now I think about it, I’ve also seen some on the drive to Decathlon, the only other reason I go into the city.

 

[Rooster1]

truly shocking.

 

[Archeress]

We've got yellow ones in Bristol too. Within weeks of the rollout I saw some missing wheels and other bits and pieces. Because they can be left anywhere it makes it easier for people to abuse them. Although Londons scheme requires you to find a free dock for the bike, at least while they are parked in a dock waiting for the next rider, they can be under observation from cctv.

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Archeress x