Shanghai sets good example for short-hire bikes
ON AUG 18, the Shanghai Transportation Commission calculated that the total number of short-hire bicycles in the city far exceeded the city's parking capacity, so it forbade enterprises from putting new ones into use and asked enterprises to maintain the existing ones well. Recently the commission said it had already removed about 500,000 bicycles that had been left in inappropriate places. Guangzhou Daily comments:
The short-hire bicycles are convenient to use because people can simply use them and leave them. That's why they have appeared in one city after another.
Yet they are a headache for the authorities because people just leave them wherever they want, and inconsiderate users may leave them where they create an obstacle for pedestrians or vehicles.
