Watch:
The 50,000-bike system in Hangzhou, a southern China city of almost 7 million people, blows all other bike-shares off the map. 2,050 bike-share stations are spaced less than a thousand feet from each other in the city center, and on an average day riders make 240,000 trips using the system.
As Bradley Schroeder of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy said, “I don’t think there is anywhere you can stand in Hangzhou for more than a minute or two where you wouldn’t have a Hangzhou Public Bike go past you.”
Its popularity and success have set a new standard for bike-sharing in Asia. And the city is far from finished. The Hangzhou Bicycle Company plans to expand the bike-share system to 175,000 bikes by 2020!
Source
Streetfilms – The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
Via: Shareable – China’s Monster 50,000 Bike Bikesharing System