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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
□ Happy Public Bicycle Riding Activity in Hangzhou
people to choose bus trip.
problem. To find a solution, the local government adopted a method of planning
2. Challenge of the Initiative
in advance and had put the public bicycle
In the process of practice we have
space into consideration in the early years
come across five major problems, namely
of urban rail transit and the newly-built
“difficult to distribute”, “difficult to
community planning.
return”, “difficult to react”, “difficult to
(2) Difficult to return
repair” and “difficult to manage”.
As the public bicycle project
(1) Difficult to distribute
became widely recognized, more and
The outlets of public bicycles in
more people are dedicated to low carbon
Hangzhou are all on sidewalks. Because
travel and therefore the riding time has
of the limited urban road resources, the
been concentrated on the peak time in
outlet distribution gradually became a
the morning and evening. Because of