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05-18-2018, 05:26 PM
Bike-sharing has blown up in the past year, but cities are wary after the mess in China
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Friday is National Bike to Work Day, but this year it's a bit different.*
It's the first year the U.S. will celebrate the two-wheeled holiday since the inundation of bike-share companies, with dockless bicycle fleets landing in cities across America over the last 12 months.*
While the shared bicycles add another convenient commuting option for riders, they're stressing out city planners and transit departments wary of bike litter, unsafe use, and overrun streets.
SEE ALSO: This major US city just took a big step to curb bike litter (http://mashable.com/2018/04/27/chicago-dockless-lock-to-bicycles-regulation/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
Dockless — bicycles that lock to themselves or can be locked to a post or rack — app-enabled bikes, like the green bikes from Lime, yellow bikes from Ofo, red bikes from Jump, or white-and-blue colored bikes from Pace, have arrived en masse since last summer, changing up how people commute and how cities regulate biking programs.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/bike-to-work-dockless-bike-share/)
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Friday is National Bike to Work Day, but this year it's a bit different.*
It's the first year the U.S. will celebrate the two-wheeled holiday since the inundation of bike-share companies, with dockless bicycle fleets landing in cities across America over the last 12 months.*
While the shared bicycles add another convenient commuting option for riders, they're stressing out city planners and transit departments wary of bike litter, unsafe use, and overrun streets.
SEE ALSO: This major US city just took a big step to curb bike litter (http://mashable.com/2018/04/27/chicago-dockless-lock-to-bicycles-regulation/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
Dockless — bicycles that lock to themselves or can be locked to a post or rack — app-enabled bikes, like the green bikes from Lime, yellow bikes from Ofo, red bikes from Jump, or white-and-blue colored bikes from Pace, have arrived en masse since last summer, changing up how people commute and how cities regulate biking programs.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/bike-to-work-dockless-bike-share/)
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