Shenzhen's transport commission and urban administration are working on measures to manage shared bikes that are left unattended on the street and impounded for illegal and random parking.
Since March, the urban administration has impounded around 60,000 shared bikes for illegally parking, obstructing traffic and occupying greenways, according to a report by Thursday’s Shenzhen Economic Daily.
However, law enforcement officers need a solution as to where to keep these bikes, since the operators haven’t claimed them, due to either going bankrupt or failing to heed the requirements of the urban administration.
Since the second half of 2017, Nanhu Subdistrict in Luohu District has cleared more than 6,000 zombie shared bikes that were deserted by bike operators after going bankrupt.
“Nobody came to claim the bikes, and we don’t know what to do with them. They can’t be sold or recycled,” a law enforcement officer with the subdistrict office was quoted as saying by the newspaper. The subdistrict law enforcement unit issued a penalty notice last November on Mobike for putting bikes in multiple locations near Meilian Fuel Station on Wenjin Road South. However, after the 36,000-yuan (US$5,581) fine was issued, the operator didn’t respond and didn’t pay the fine.
“An enterprise generally has the right to file an administrative lawsuit within six months, and if the time for a court trial is included, it could take at least eight to nine months to complete a lawsuit,” said a law enforcement office with the subdistrict.
At present, the city’s transport commission is working with another department on measures to evaluate the performance of shared-bike operators. Bike operators with inferior service quality will be disqualified from the market.