Yesterday the Shanghai Daily reported that planners for Shanghai’s Minhang district plan to add 6,500 bikes over the next 5 years due to the popularity of the existing 3,500 free bike service. Since the service started 10,000 residents have applied for the service.
The article also quoted Wu Zhongquan, a Minhang construction commission official as saying
the free-bike program is meant to solve the problem of the final trip home after alighting from public transport.
Traffic planners call this stage “the very last 3 kilometers” from homes or schools to traffic hubs.
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