Bike-sharing has blown up in the past year, but cities are wary after the mess in Chi
 

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


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...

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