Shared bike pile in Nanjing reaches 300,000

A growing pile of shared bikes in a district in Jiangsu's provincial capital, Nanjing, has reached roughly 300,000, reports the China Youth Daily.

This comes amid a disagreement among Nanjing's urban management authority and bike share companies in how to deal with the growing pile, according to the report.

Photo taken on August 26, 2018 shows the shared bike piles on Jinglongshan in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu province. [Photo: VCG]

At issue is city ordinance which has designated certain areas of the city as no-parking areas for shared bicycles.

If they're discovered in these areas, police or urban management authorities then move the bikes into an area known as Jinglongshan. The process has been taking place for the past year, turning Jinglongshan into what's been dubbed a "tomb for shared bikes."

Urban management authorities in Nanjing demanded in late August that the companies involved come and collect their bikes. However, they also intended to hit the companies with fines of 50 yuan for each bike collected, as well as a 15 yuan cleaning surcharge for every week the bicycles remained at the site. As such, the two sides remain at an impasse.

Urban management authorities are now turning to the highest levels in the Nanjing government to try to find a solution.