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More lanes, lowered deposits, no electric ones — Shanghai releases draft guideline on shared bikes
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THE city government released a draft guideline on the development of bike sharing service on Friday to hear opinions from the public.
The draft guideline addressed issues including the city's development on non-motor vehicle lanes, how to protect the users’ deposit and setting up blacklists for users caught with multiple traffic violations.
It also for the first time said that the city will not develop electric shared bikes, which is out of safety concern.
According to the draft guideline, the city will set up lanes for non-motor vehicles when building up new or expanding existing main roads and secondary main roads, with facilities isolating the non-motor vehicle lanes from motor vehicles lanes. This is to provide a safe riding environment for residents.
It added that district-level governments should analyze local situations and the residents’ needs, to optimize locations of parking spaces for non-motor vehicles and clarify where are not allowed for the parking.
The authorities should also coordinate resources to set up parking spots around public venues, such as Metro and bus stations, major office buildings, hospitals and residential complexes.
The draft added that local authorities will use the big data from bike sharing companies for the design and planning of the city’s non-motor vehicle transportation system’s development.
Bike sharing companies are encouraged to lower or not to charge deposits from users, by methods such as introducing credit management system. If the company charges deposit from users, the deposit money must be put in a special bank account set up in Shanghai, which will be under supervision by local authorities. The company should also release the usage of the deposit money to the public.
Moreover, shared bikes to be released must meet national standards after examinations, and equipped with real-time positioning and accurate positioning technologies.
The bike sharing companies are required to ensure the information safety of users, at the same time restricting enhancing credit management.
The companies are also encouraged to set up a blacklist for users caught with multiple violations, which can be shared among the companies to restrict the users from using shared bikes. The city’s social credit system should set up standards on data collection and usage of bike sharing industry, helping the companies to improve their credit system.
The police will also tighten crackdown against bike riders’ traffic violations, and shame the violators.
To propose suggestion about the draft guideline, residents can send emails to shjtw@shanghai.gov.cn by May 7, with subject name “suggestion and opinions for bike sharing service”.
As of April 25, there were 8 bike sharing companies operating in Shanghai, which had launched about 620,000 bikes, including 60,000 electric bikes. The registered users’ number had reached about 7.66 million.
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