I am not being sarcastic. I lived in Shanghai from June of 2017 --> January of 2018 and the pictures you see in that photoset are truly remarkable and thoroughly unrepresentative of the situation on the ground. There are certainly some subway stations at certain times where there are lots of bikes crowded around the stations, but there are also crews of people constantly redistributing the bikes.

Also my intended message in my comment is that companies should indeed pay for the usage of the sidewalk. Users of the equipment should furthermore be forwarded the penalties they incurred on the company's behalf through bad parking behavior.