what looked like scrap heap since. the bikes the city administration has cleared are now unloaded here on the fringes of the capital every major chinese city has bicycle cemeteries like this one the remaining rental companies have to take back some of them nobody knows what will happen to the rest. more bike is grappling with new regulations for bike sharing in this city seven hundred fifty thousand of its bikes can be found on the streets of beijing the government won t allow them to deploy more on peak days their bikes can wreck up two million trips. or. i think many new business models need a phase of irrational competition but in the future this industry will become extremely environmentally friendly and sustainable. every ride is recorded by the
we can get. well to enjoy riding by as not. most roads in beijing have a bike lane like this and we are going to take a look now and what condition they are. in. this one is nice and why then pretty comfortable to ride on even if there are a couple of obstacles along the way i just managed to squeeze past one car making a turn and there s another issue too many vehicles stop or park on the bike path then you have to swerve into the car lane so a less than perfect situation. and there are other negative aspects to bike sharing like the numbers of rental bikes cluttering up streets and sidewalks or storage is now often just pile them up onto
a month he can earn about six hundred euros that s about half the average wage. i ve got an american i m in the morning as the busiest time by then everyone is in their offices the bikes are all over the place. i fill up my truck every few minutes. our rental biogs really the solution to beijing s traffic problems to find out more i take a detour in the history. district as the city modernized the old town became a symbol for backwardness for the old and the poor who lived here bicycles were a common means of transport today the charms of the old town are being rediscovered by young people and what about bikes this small shop wants to show the people of beijing that cycling can be fun customers can design their own bikes here to the i step go that you really can take any color you want. if you case even see which one you like solo though did the case. soon there one or yeah i ve had some customers
in twenty ten that were already more than one billion cars on our planet and by twenty four c. there could be as many as two billion and that even though congestion is already a huge problem in fact in some cities drivers spend more than two hundred hours a year stuck in traffic jams many chinese cities have major problems but alternatives are making a comeback. this is what beijing looks like some twenty years ago china then was called the kingdom of bicycles then planners had a different idea for decades they did everything they could to make beijing car friendly around six million vehicles now clogged roads and highways and the kingdom of bicycles has become the capital of traffic jams. then two years ago colorful. rental bikes suddenly began appearing everywhere all
rediscover cycling through riding rental bikes they use them but they don t find them comfortable enough too small they don t have enough gears or only suitable for short distances and many rental bikes are in fact condition and are poorly maintained no one will use after riding the until bikes however people decide they want to buy one of their own and slowly but surely the bicycle culture is reemerging my legal court so bike sharing has acted as a catalyst helping beijing residents rediscover an important means of transport from the past now all that s needed is a sustainable plan for the traffic of the future. in creating an environmentally friendly transport system for the future and not will depend on the efficiency of local systems and how different types of transport interconnect app developers around the globe