Comments on: Photo of the Day: Auckland Dockless Bike Share https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2017/12/03/photo-of-the-day-auckland-dockless-bike-share/ Regular people riding bicycles Wed, 11 May 2022 11:09:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Lockie https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2017/12/03/photo-of-the-day-auckland-dockless-bike-share/#comment-5787 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 08:59:57 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=16986#comment-5787 In reply to Julian.

Things are not going well in Auckland…the scheme is a total failure…students and criminals have basically hijacked most of the bikes for their own personal use…and the rest are being left in public parks and small side streets once they are trashed…disaster…cheap always comes at a price…why do cities even need bike share? the importance is overstated and nothing i’ve seen anywhere around the world so far justifies all the significant issues they create….money better spent on building cyclelanes….should be the priority…

]]> By: Julian https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2017/12/03/photo-of-the-day-auckland-dockless-bike-share/#comment-4973 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:41:45 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=16986#comment-4973 I recently moved from Christchurch to Melbourne and here they have the Melbourne Bike Share – very similar to what’s been done in Christchurch so far but more widespread around Melbourne’s CBD. There’s also dockless Obikes, essentially what OnzO is.
Now Obike – what a mess! A Google search will get you just what OnzO might become, a blight of cheap wrecks dumped, well, everwhere.
During November, Obike had a promotion where every ride was free so I thought I’d download the app and give it a go. There were loads of bikes near my house but half of them were damaged, and of the non-damaged ones they were in such bad shape I didn’t even bother. Utter rubbish. None of them had helmets.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the idea. But because of human nature, and Obike not keeping up with removing junked bikes, they’ve become a blight. I feel it gives cycling in general a bad name.
Perhaps if it was a local company that could be held more accountable things might be improved?
Melbourne Bike Share is slightly better, but each individule ride has to be within 45 minutes and there’s no docks for the bikes outside the CBD. Most of the bikes are in dire need of maintenance.
It will be very interesting to see how things go for Auckland indeed!

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