Bike-sharing apps may be popular in China but for some major cities, the bicycles are causing havoc.
Images show thousands of bikes discarded in a car park in Shanghai after they were collected from the streets by local authorities for illegal parking.
The Chinese government has been forced to implement new rules for the bicycle apps that require users to give their full name when using the services.
Discarded: Images show thousands of bikes discarded in a car park in Shanghai after they were collected from the streets
Being taken over by plants: About 30,000 shared bikes have been dumped at two open spaces on Zhongxing Road this year
Abandoned bicycles of Mobike (orange), ofo (yellow), Xiaoming Danche, or Xiaoming Bike (blue), and other Chinese bike-sharing services
The Chinese government has been forced to implement new rules for the bicycle apps that require users to give their full name when using the service
Left to rot: About 30,000 shared bikes have been dumped at two open spaces on Zhongxing Road this year
Causing havoc: It’s thought that these bikes were moved from streets across the district because of illegal parking
Photos taken on August 24 show the effects of illegal parking of shared bikes.
Around 300,000 bicycles have been dumped at two open spaces on Zhongxing Road in Shanghai this year.
One of the bike sharing apps that these bicycles belong to has just launched a similar service in Shanghai
Images show the sheer amount of the bikes left dumped in major cities such as Shanghai, eastern China
The Jing’an District government of Shanghai has witnessed rampant illegal parking as the bike sharing industry has boomed
The bicycles can be seen in a huge pile after being parked illegally on the streets of Shanghai causing traffic chaos
In the photos, pictures show how the bikes have been on location for such a long time that plants have grown over them
An overview picture shows the sheer scale of the shared bike graveyard in Shanghai, eastern China
It’s thought that these bikes were moved from streets across the district because of illegal parking. Some of them have been abandoned for so long that they are covered by plants.
More than 90 percent of the bikes were said to belong to Mobike and ofo. Mobike has just launched in Manchester here in the UK.
According to state media, users of the shared bikes will have to register with their real names to make them accountable
Who is responsible? The logos of the companies the bicycles belong to can be clearly seen in these images
More than 90 percent of the bikes were said to belong to Mobike and ofo. Mobike has just launched in Manchester
Causing a menace: The bikes were moved from streets across the district because of illegal parking
Left on the streets: Some of them have been abandoned at the sites for so long that they are covered by plants
In these photos, the bikes have been there for so long that they are being overtaken by plants growing on the site
According to state media, users of the shared bikes will have to register with their real names to make them accountable
Shared bikes have proved popular in China with millions on the country’s streets. This has led to the Chinese government to issue new guidelines to regulate these services
Tourist sites including Hangzhou’s West Lake have been plagued by bikes dumped around the area in recent months
It comes just weeks after footage emerged of a children’s playground in Hefei, China’s Anhui province turned into a bike graveyard.
Officials confiscated the bikes from the city’s streets and put them in the playground to avoid causing disruption to traffic.
The bikes had either violated parking rules or had been discarded by people on side roads in Hefei.
As far as the eye can see: Stacks of shared bikes are locked up at a playground of an unused school in Hefei, China
The city management department in Hefei, Anhui province has collected thousands of the shared bikes
Shared bikes have proved popular in China with millions on the country’s streets. This has led to the Chinese government to issue new guidelines to regulate these services.
It called for local governments to set up appropriate spaces for parking, reports road.cc.
According to state media, users of the shared bikes will have to register with their real names to make them accountable.
Tourist sites including Hangzhou’s West Lake have been plagued by bikes dumped around the area in recent months.
In an opinion piece, The People’s Daily slammed China’s current sharing economy, branding it a gimmick.
Too many sharing apps: The bikes were taken to the playground to stop them from becoming a menace to traffic
Shared bikes have proved popular in China with millions on the country’s streets