Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Japan's
crazy underground bike vaults
Though
there isn’t enough space on the ground, there is underground. So many bicycles are
recklessly parked, left or abandoned on the streets in Tokyo, especially around
train stations. That’s because there aren’t enough bike parking spaces. Pedestrians
and stores on the streets are annoyed. Bike-parking watchers patrol around the
stations and attach warning tags and tickets on illegally parked or left bikes.
In some cases, those bikes are removed from the street and stored by the city.
In order to retrieve them, the owner has to pay a few thousand yen fine. Why
don’t they make more parking lots for bikes? They can’t because the land space
is so limited in this metropolitan city.
That’s
why this unique solution was created. Fully-automated underground parking bike
vaults. All you need to do is to get your bike registered and obtain a smart card.
It takes only eight seconds to safely store your bike underground. You can
retrieve your bike by simply swiping the smart card again and the system will
bring your bike from the vault.
Enjoy
seeing the video and think if you want to use it every day on your to and from
work.
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