In Paris there's a huge credit card based fine if your bike isn't properly docked within a time limit.
What can be done to fix the problems?
Waverley Council loses patience with bike share trash in Sydney's eastern suburbs - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Can the problems be fixed?
In Paris there's a huge credit card based fine if your bike isn't properly docked within a time limit.
Perhaps refer back to the thread re helmets and the arguments pro and against as it was a response to the shared cycles and helmets.
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Tuk Turks don’t pass adr’s, and I have read ride sharing has added to urban congestion , not reduced it. Not sure why the need to equate financial riches with the form of transport ?
If it weren’t for the helmet laws I would cycle to work , as buying a second car so that we can both drive in to our close by jobs. ,just doesn’t make economic sense.
I wonder why the bike share people do not have GPS locators on their bikes. You see them advertised cheaply now.
They would then know where they all are and pick up those in the wrong place.
I think the IDEA is ok , just the execution is crap.
But it is not only the larrikin Australians who dump bikes. I saw a photo a while ago of a barge fishing bikes out of an Amsterdam canal. There were hundreds on the barge.
Bingo YouTube Fishing bicycle wrecks from the canals of Amsterdam - YouTube
Regards Philip A
I was in Sydney a few weeks ago and they were dumped everywhere.
There's obviously no real penalty for dumping the bikes. It's obvious. What happens when these bikes are 'returned'? Why don't they need to be locked back into a rack - to get your deposit back / not get fined?
I agree the helmet issue is a problem also. The nanny state we live in here gets in the way many great projects. The freedom of riding around Paris on a rental bike with no helmet is one of most enjoyable things I've done in a European city.
Found one dumped in the servo where i work sometimes. No helmet attatched. Broken spokes. Lock was locked. Rang the number on the bike. Just an answering service advising to download the app and report it tbere. I hung up. Bloody things are everywhere, like yellow turds all over the place. Maybe the council should start impounding them.
Rant over....for now..
Cheers Rod
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