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Alexander Wong, CEO of the new dockless bikeshare Sharee, demonstrates with a test run at the Ohana Hale Marketplace off Ward Avenue.
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Bike-sharing businesses have taken China by storm. But the trend has brought a problem — huge piles of abandoned bicycles. With no bike stations, bikes can be left anywhere when the riders are finished, creating trash.
The bikes are basic, so the amount charged to rent them easily pays for the bike, so the company has nothing to lose. Abandoned cheap bikes become the city’s problem.
Honolulu has enough of a trash problem already. Don’t allow more to be made (“Dockless bikeshare Sharee rolls into Honolulu; smooth ride not guaranteed,” Star-Advertiser, Nov. 19).
Anne Tam
Manoa
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