Great news, except we will still see issues of overcrowding due to the surplus of bikes in circulation. Since clearing up broken or outdated bikes is too hard and costs money, this will only shift the problem into a concentrated space. Look out for people trying to jimmy their bikes to lie within the parking zone, horizontally in front of rows of neatly parked bikes.
Beijing Rolls out Electronic Fences and Reinforces Parking Guidelines for Bike Rentals
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The Chinese capital is reinforcing electronic fences for bike rentals. The designated parking zones will prevent bike users parking haphazardly, according to a report by Xinhua (in Chinese).
Last year, regulators issued parking guidelines to encourage bike users to park in an orderly manner, but the guidelines were not strictly imposed. Now, regulators are enforcing the guidelines throughout multiple districts in Beijing. Users who park outside of the designated parking zones would not be able to end the ride, accumulating owed payments until the bike is parked properly. Each designated parking station is equipped with an electronic device to monitor bikes via GPS tracker on the bike.
On May 2, the Tongzhou Transportation Bureau announced that 759 electric fences for share bikes have space been set up throughout the district. The bureau is asking all bike-rental operators to fully implement “in-zone payment” by this year.
Outside of Tongzhou, a number of districts in Beijing have been reinforcing the parking guidelines and testing electronic fences, including Dongcheng, Xicheng, Haidian, Chaoyang, and Daxing.
Beijing started implementing new guidelines and electronic fences since last April to tame the city’s oversaturated bike rentals.
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