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Isn't bike sharing huge in China?

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/22/bike-wars-doc...

> the world’s 15 biggest public bike shares are ranked. Thirteen of them are in China.

My local city has just got a slightly different type of bike sharing scheme where there are no stations/docks for the bikes, but you're allowed to leave them anywhere sensible [1]. From other articles including the guardian one linked above, it seems that this a model that's been used in China and certainly seems to have proven very rapidly scalable.

I guess in these cases it's quite difficult, since it's likely not feasible to update the locations of individual bikes for these guys. I've checked their map and Bristol, UK doesn't appear to show YoBike at the moment, however it's only been in action for a few weeks.

[1]: https://yobike.co.uk/

There's a similar system in Prague and Brno, Rekola.

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