I am curious about this too. Which ones that are parked on the sidewalks have been placed there by the company and which ones have been parked there by users.
My only assumption is the ones that are parked in bike parking areas and are aligned perfectly next to one anther are placed there by the company. Ones in scooter parking spots are NOT.
Maybe itâs the opposite and Obikeâs CEO just hates scooters xD
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I just did it yesterday with my Taiwan number without the zero in front.
So they must have gotten a license from the city that defines where the bikes can be parked and what happens when the bikes are parked incorrectly, if anything.
Need to figure out if the city authorized them to use the scooter parking spaces or not. Then decide who to complain about.
If the city authorized them to park in the scooter spots, and itâs the city that needs the complaints.
Itâs another one of those, âcan bikes ride on the sidewalkâ gray area issues.
Cars and scooters alike all have their designated parking spots and so do bikes! Technically speaking, bikes should be parked in designated parking spots. However, since thereâs no license plate on a bike and no way to track who owns the bike, I donât see anyone actually following those rules.
Bike parking in Taipei is scarce and unless you know where they are, you wonât be wasting time on an oBike to find one since youâre paying for that extra time!
I am wondering, if I leave my bike in an illegal spot and it is removed by the government and taken to whereever they take those bikes, am I, the last user, going to be charged for that? Didnât read all of the small print, obviouslyâŚ
Hey thereâs a new law that says bike riders that arenât inside the bike lane will get a fine.
This will be bad for old people and kids on bicycles, if they have to swim in the shark waters that are Taipeiâs streets. I feel the government canât make up their mind as to who they want to favor, pedestrians, cyclists, motorists. And then they have these laws and enforce them randomly so no one has a good idea of what is going on.
I made a typo in my original post. Iâve been trying with and without the leading zero and itâs still saying that my phone number is incorrect. I have no idea why.
The streets are unsafe for cycling because of the scooters. The government wonât do anything to reduce the number of scooters
Mayor Ko is working on it, but he wonât be in office long enough to see a major decrease in scooters. Iâm hoping if oBike or Youbikes donât make a difference, that the local scooter companies start dishing out legit electric scooters like Gogoro.
They are trying to promote green Fridays and giving people incentives to bike, MRT or even take the bus to work instead of driving/scootering.
Obike donât look fun. Theyâre very minimalist which is a kind way of saying they made them as cheap as possible. U bikes looks fun.
They serve a different purpose. Obikes are good for two minute trips to somewhere specific at the cost of a few NT
I wonder if the bikes will be out during a typhoon or go around and collect all of them and put them inside storage
That would be a logistic nightmare, they are all over the place not just Taipei. And locating them is sometimes tricky.
No worries, itâs gone. Itâs already turning in direction of Japan.
i like the idea of O Bike but the bike is so hard to pedal. It goes half the speed of a U Bike
Thatâs certainly true. I already saw one bike with a broken pedal. Donât push too hardâŚ