Курьезы, Общество

Велосипедный апокалипсис в Китае

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В Китае с большим успехом развернулась программа городского велопроката и десятки специализированных компаний заполнили улицы миллионами ярко окрашенных велосипедов.

Однако стремительный рост предложения значительно опередил спрос и педальный транспорт наводнил китайские города, где инфраструктура и правила оказались не готовы к внезапному потоку миллионов прокатных велосипедов.

Ездоки парковали велосипеды где угодно или просто оставляли их, в результате чего они скапливались и блокировали переполненные улицы и дорожки. В городах начали конфисковать тысячи оставленных велосипедов. Огромные груды изъятого, брошенного и сломанного двухколёсного транспорта стали привычным зрелищем во многих крупных городах.

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Фото: TPG/Getty Images

Некоторые компании заблаговременно и с большим избытком произвели громадные партии велосипедов, которые превратились в собирающие пыль груды на пустырях.

В Китае сохраняется популярность совместного пользования велосипедами и, вероятно, она продолжит расти. Между тем, можно наблюдать невероятные скопища байков, произведённых на волне популярности велопроката.

Из-за избыточных мощностей на старте более 10 000 велосипедов оказались на велосипедном кладбище.

A worker untangles a rope amid piled-up shared bicycles at a vacant lot in Xiamen, Fujian province, China December 13, 2017. Picture taken December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1E8FA5CB40

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На стоянке в пекинском районе Чаоян плотными рядами стоят десятки тысяч велосипедов, принадлежащих китайской велопрокатной фирме Bluegogo, 5 марта 2018 года. Bluegogo была третьей по величине в своей отрасли в Китае, но в ноябре прошлого года она прекратила свою деятельность, так как финансы исчерпались, а десятки тысяч велосипедов остались в подвешенном состоянии. Недавно Bluegogo приобрела Didi, другая велосипедная компания, заявившая, что планирует заменить часть старых велосипедов Bluegogo своими собственными.

Shanghai. (Yibo Wang / Shutterstock)

Фото: Yibo Wang / Shutterstock

A man walks past shared bikes placed at a repair factory in Beijing, China April 13, 2017. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. CHINA OUT. - RC1E0C8821B0

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Chinese men walk past the abandoned share bicycles stored at a temporary parking lot in Shanghai on August 24, 2017. The bike-sharing industry has proven wildly popular with Chinese city-dwellers, but has grown so rapidly that authorities have introduced regulations to prevent an accumulation of unused bikes on streets. Shanghai last week announced a ban on additional bikes being deployed in the city to prevent sidewalk clutter. / AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNA (Photo credit should read CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images)

Фото: Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty

ANHUI, CHINA - AUGUST 17: (CHINA MAINLAND OUT)Thousands of illegally parked share bikes temporary detained in a sports field on 17th August, 2017 in Hefei, Anhui, China.(Photo by TPG/Getty Images)

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Shared bicycles block pathway in Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang district of Beijing on July 14, 2017. (zhangjin_net / Shutterstock)

Фото: Zhangjin_net / Shutterstock

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 29: A worker from the bike share company Ofo puts a damaged bike on a pile at a makeshift repair depot for the company where thousands of derelict bikes are being kept after coming off the road on March 29, 2017 in Beijing, China. The popularity of bike shares has exploded in the past year with more than two dozen providers now battling for market share in major cities across China. The bikes are hailed as an efficient, cheap, and environmentally-friendly solution for commuters, where riders unlock the stationless bicycles using a mobile phone app, drop them anywhere for the next user, and spend as little as 1 yuan ($0.15) per hour. Given the bikes have several users a day - some of them inexperienced riders who swerve into traffic - they are often damaged, vandalized, or abandoned. Companies like Ofo routinely collect the battered two-wheelers and bring them to a makeshift depot that is part repair shop, part graveyard where they are either salvaged or scrapped. The bike shares are powering a cycling revival of sorts in a country once known as the 'Kingdom of Bicycles'?. In the early years of Communist China, most Chinese aspired to own a bicycle as a marker of achievement. When the country's economic transformation made cars a more valued status symbol, the bicycle - a Chinese cultural icon - was mocked as a sign of backwardness. The bike share craze is also a boon for manufacturers who are now mass producing over a million bikes a month to meet demand, and the number of shared bike users will reach 50 million in China by the end of the year, according to Beijing-based BigData Research. Not everyone is cheering the revival though, as municipal officials are drafting new regulations to control the chaotic flood of bicycles on streets and sidewalks. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Фото: Kevin Frayer / Getty Images

Природа начинает поглощать велосипеды на временной парковке в Шанхае.

Abandoned share bicycles are seen at a temporary parking lot in Shanghai on August 24, 2017. The bike-sharing industry has proven wildly popular with Chinese city-dwellers, but has grown so rapidly that authorities have introduced regulations to prevent an accumulation of unused bikes on streets. Shanghai last week announced a ban on additional bikes being deployed in the city to prevent sidewalk clutter. / AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNA (Photo credit should read CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Велосипеды разных компаний целиком заполнили большую площадку в Шанхае.

Bicycles of various bike-sharing services are seen in Shanghai

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Источник: Cameralabs