Singapore bike share?

[Frank Krygowski]

John - any observations on the dockless bike share system in Singapore?
See this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/12/uber-bikes-manchester-mobike-china-global-ofo?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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- Frank Krygowski

[John B. Slocomb]

I haven't been to Singapore in a couple of years now but I'd guess
that any bike share plan would not be an amazing spectacular for a
couple of reasons. The locals that use bikes for local transportation
will, of course, all have their own bike and the MRT (subway) stations
in the outlying areas, were the bulk of the housing is, already have
bike parking facilities. At one, the Lavender Street Station, there
will be easily 100+ bikes parked there during business hours.

For tourists the public transportation system, buses and subways are
generally all that is required and if a place is just a little out of
the way there are a lot of taxies and are not, in European or U.S.
terms, expensive.

They have a bike sharing scheme in Bangkok but I have never seen
anyone use it.

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Cheers,

John B.

[cycl...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 6:18:08 AM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:
>
> They have a bike sharing scheme in Bangkok but I have never seen
> anyone use it.

What sort of levels of bike theft are there in those areas?

[Doug Landau]

things have gone totally crazy there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx73wIFhbpo

[John B. Slocomb]

In Singapore they take crime pretty seriously and the theft of, say a
USD 3,000, bicycle would probably merit a prison sentence and one
would likely get caught if one rode the bicycle as there police
coverage in Singapore is probably higher then I've seen in other
cities. You still see pairs of police walking their beat there.

In Thailand theft is probably much lower not because there are fewer
thieves but because anyone with the sense of a hard boiled egg
wouldn't leave their brand new bike sitting on the street. On the
other hand I see the old tattered single speed klunkers parked at bus
stops and underground stations sometimes with locks and sometimes
without and they don't seem to disappear very often
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Cheers,

John B.