China Is Still Sorting Through Its Colorful Bike-Share Graveyards

Atlantic ^ | Aug 1, 2018 | Alan Taylor

[Carriage Hill]

I was looking at russia, not china; my error.

# COUNTRY SIZE AMOUNT
1 Russia 6.6 million square miles
=2 Canada 3.8 million square miles
=2 United States 3.8 million square miles
4 China 3.7 million square miles

[rktman]

Hey, they started one here in Reno. They’re finding them in the river, in the middle of NFW. I wonder how many will end up on the Playa for Burning Man coming up the end of the month. Progressive. Another great idear! Stunning pictures of the waste.

[elbook]

a cheap “jungle gyms for children” program for the next 5-year plan

[hanamizu]

Send them to Africa. With crummy roads (where there any roads at all), villagers and dwellers in outlying areas have no workable transportation except Barefoot Express.

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And bikes are a useful low-tech way of hauling freight. The user doesn’t ride the bike, he walks it.