Bike Share Oversupply in China : Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268
Article de mars 2018
Last year, bike sharing took off in China, with dozens of bike-share companies quickly flooding city streets with millions of brightly colored rental bicycles. However, the rapid growth vastly outpaced immediate demand and overwhelmed Chinese cities, where infrastructure and regulations were not prepared to handle a sudden flood of millions of shared bicycles. Riders would park bikes anywhere, or just abandon them, resulting in bicycles piling up and blocking already-crowded streets and pathways.
En partant d’un thread Twitter sur la place du vélo (▻https://twitter.com/StrategicCities/status/1388609162829910017) qui montrait une photo de la gare d’Eindhoven , une personne a remis ce lien des photos de piles de vélos partagés abîmés en Chine.
Un autre article en parlait là ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/650852.
J’avais oublié ces photos assez impressionnantes, dans la démesure de l’industrie chinoise.