Abandoned Bike Share Photos
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That makes a little sad inside to see all those unused bikes.
The share bikes do OK around here, but the electric scooters are really starting to become popular.
The share bikes do OK around here, but the electric scooters are really starting to become popular.
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So hard to believe that there just throwing them away like that. Just cause the place I live in with pop of 800,000 thousand has one bike share program with a total of 10 bikes.
Mind you it's much colder here where I live and probably only maybe 4 months of good riding.
Only if they can send all those usable bikes over here to North America, i'm sure they could be put to good use.
Mind you it's much colder here where I live and probably only maybe 4 months of good riding.
Only if they can send all those usable bikes over here to North America, i'm sure they could be put to good use.
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I suppose you haven't heard of Americas failing infrastructure....see flint Michigan for example among many other issues especially in larger/older cities.
Residents in Flint, Mich., left with undrinkable water despite close proximity to Lake Huron - NY Daily News
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I see more abandoned electric scooters than abandoned bike share bikes these days. I guess they run out of power and the person drops it and walks away. Should be fined for illegal dumping.
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Send the bill to Bird, Lime, Uber or whomever is the guilty party responsible for dumping their commercial fleet of crap-mobiles on the city streets and sidewalks.
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Perhaps you have heard of the 1970s when rich people paid their share of taxes.
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https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/ rates the US with a D+ that ain't great
I suppose you haven't heard of Americas failing infrastructure....see flint Michigan for example among many other issues especially in larger/older cities.
Residents in Flint, Mich., left with undrinkable water despite close proximity to Lake Huron - NY Daily News
I suppose you haven't heard of Americas failing infrastructure....see flint Michigan for example among many other issues especially in larger/older cities.
Residents in Flint, Mich., left with undrinkable water despite close proximity to Lake Huron - NY Daily News
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What a waste.
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Not sating it was a communist plan, but the underlying issue of the bike share and in communism is that personal responsibility is removed from the equation. somebody else will do it- and that somebody else never does becuz- somebody else will do it. and in the case of the dockless bikeshare, bikes are just thrown everywhere including rivers. at least with docking you are responsible for putting back in an authorized spot lest ye be relinquished of thine monetary goods.
Communism and personal responsibility? Interesting commentary, has you lived under communism or socialism?
The reason for the result of the photos is actually capitalism and has nothing to do with the people that used the bicycles (those are all company owned collection facilities.)
Have you been to China?
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What is the difficulty you are having?
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Well.
The bikes aren't being disposed by anyone per se, except the companies. So, I don't understand your "tossing like chopsticks" comment. No of the photos have anything to with individual people.
It really seems as if the real issue in the lack of government regulation with respect to unbridled capitalism resulting in overproduction of bicycles.
The bikes aren't being disposed by anyone per se, except the companies. So, I don't understand your "tossing like chopsticks" comment. No of the photos have anything to with individual people.
It really seems as if the real issue in the lack of government regulation with respect to unbridled capitalism resulting in overproduction of bicycles.
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Well.
The bikes aren't being disposed by anyone per se, except the companies. So, I don't understand your "tossing like chopsticks" comment. No of the photos have anything to with individual people.
It really seems as if the real issue in the lack of government regulation with respect to unbridled capitalism resulting in overproduction of bicycles.
The bikes aren't being disposed by anyone per se, except the companies. So, I don't understand your "tossing like chopsticks" comment. No of the photos have anything to with individual people.
It really seems as if the real issue in the lack of government regulation with respect to unbridled capitalism resulting in overproduction of bicycles.
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All of these bikes are from bankrupt firms. I didn't actually see a single photo of a discarded bike.
Also, the user will get hugely charged should the bike go missing (or go outside range), so I find them really well taken care of if they're GPS equipped.
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Glad to hear it.
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In Boston I'm seeing bikeshare cycles (whether docked or undocked) ridden a lot, particularly in the denser areas with a network of subway transportation. For every "trashed" cycle there are several others put to productive use (i.e. reducing Uber/Lyft rides). This seems like "winning" to me, am I misguided?
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In Boston I'm seeing bikeshare cycles (whether docked or undocked) ridden a lot, particularly in the denser areas with a network of subway transportation. For every "trashed" cycle there are several others put to productive use (i.e. reducing Uber/Lyft rides). This seems like "winning" to me, am I misguided?
What you're seeing in the photos is companies getting into the business and then getting out. Nothing more, nothing less.
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BTW personal bike thefts are down here in the valley of the sun. People are stealing the "yellow" ofo bikes. You see a former yellow bikes painted over missing the meter around.
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I've never rented a bike but I assume the user 'checks out' when they're done (so they stop the meter on their accumulating payment), after which the bike is not their responsibility. I think a lot of the bikes self-lock (metal bar through the spokes), but there's really nothing to prevent anybody (including the user who just checked out) from picking up the bike and doing whatever with it. I guess there's the GPS that will allow the bike to be tracked eventually, but vandalism is just something the companies have figured will be rare enough they can afford it, build it into the pricing.
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Apparently Ofo is bailing out of the U.S. market
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-b...ons-1531959910
"China Bike-Sharing Giant Ofo to Shut Most U.S. Operations
Updated July 18, 2018 9:04 p.m. ET
Less than a year after China’s Ofo Inc. entered the U.S. with big ambitions, the world’s largest bike-share company plans to shut down most of its U.S. operations, people familiar with the matter said.
Beijing-based Ofo told U.S. employees Wednesday that it is cutting the vast majority of its workforce in the U.S. and retreating to a handful of larger cities, these people said. Ofo told staff it is still determining which cities it will continue operating in, the people said. It has more than 40,000 bicycles in more than 30 U.S. markets."
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"Ofo has discovered that turning a profit the bike sharing business in the United States is a real MoFo."
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As a person who has used dockless bike systems for the last 8 years, this couldn't be further than the truth.
Communism and personal responsibility? Interesting commentary, has you lived under communism or socialism?
The reason for the result of the photos is actually capitalism and has nothing to do with the people that used the bicycles (those are all company owned collection facilities.)
Have you been to China?
Communism and personal responsibility? Interesting commentary, has you lived under communism or socialism?
The reason for the result of the photos is actually capitalism and has nothing to do with the people that used the bicycles (those are all company owned collection facilities.)
Have you been to China?
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Here in Dallas, we were the city being laughed at for letting the dockless bike-shares run rampant. Now we are being laughed at for being the city that ran dockless bike-share out of town. In February, five companies combined for 20,000 bikes in the city. In August, LimeBike became the last one standing with 500.
Seattle has apparently found a way to have a prospering dockless bike-share system. Just a few months ago, their city council voted to double the amount of shared bikes allowed on the streets.
Seattle has apparently found a way to have a prospering dockless bike-share system. Just a few months ago, their city council voted to double the amount of shared bikes allowed on the streets.
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