TITLE: The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China

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Historically, China is very well known for bicycling
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and I think there was a period of time, probably a decade or two ago
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where the focus went to car culture
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and now leaders are realizing its absolutely imposssible
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to build enough roads for everyone to have a car
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and so you need to look at alternative methods
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and those alternative methods are like bus rapid transit, metro,
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but none of them solve the last mile issue,
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and that's where bike sharing comes in
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Its very integrated with other forms of public transport, like the bus parking and the water taxis`
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"When I go to work in the morning, I first choose the bus, then I choose the bike."
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I don't think there is anywhere in Hangzhou you could stand for more than a minute or two
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where you wouldn't have a Hangzhou public bike go past you.
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"The public bicycle is more convenient for me, if I take my own bicycle it's not worth coming
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because from my home to West Lake is very far, about more than 10 kilometers."
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The scale of bike sharing in Hangzhou and in China in general
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is just completely off the map of what we see in Europe and the Americas.

Title:: TITLE: The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
Description:: Hangzhou's bike sharing system shows how public bicycle systems will become an important part of public transportation systems in cities around the world. Translate it to help spread the word!

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Video Language:: English
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