Measures against abandoned bicycles
So what is being done besides maintenance of bicycle parking as measures against abandoned bicycles? In each municipality, announcement of parking banned areas by signboards, removal of illegal parking vehicles by traffic instructors and volunteers, etc. It is done. The following is an example of Kashiwa City.
Bikes that are left in public places such as bicycles in areas where they are not allowed to leave will be removed. When a bicycle etc. is attached to a structure with a chain lock etc., chain lock etc etc are cut at the time of removal.
◆ Disposal: Bicycles that have been removed will be disposed two months after the notice.
◆ At the time of return, we will receive 3,090 yen (ordinance Article 11) as a removal storage fee. We will mail a receipt notice to the person who sticks the usage sticker (sticker) and how to know the address / name.
(Supplementary) Even if the bicycle or the like who was stolen is removed, it is necessary to pay the removed storage fee. However, if you submit a stolen notification to the police by the day before the removal date, the removal storage fee will be exempted. (If you submit a stolen notification after the removal date, it will not be subject to exemption.)
Source:柏市 - 自転車の撤去と保管所 http://www.city.kashiwa.lg.jp/soshiki/120700/p002117.html
Even with such countermeasures, the bicycles taken by the owner are about half, and the expenses for removing, storing and disposing bicycles that were not picked up are burdens of local governments, etc. In each local government, the number of bicycles Tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of yen of taxes are being devoted to illegal parking.
Many people think that the reason why abandoned bicycles do not decrease is because there is no storage place (bicycle parking lot). However, when we actually watched it, we felt that many bicycles are parking illegal parking despite having a bicycle parking lot in the station or commercial facility.
As mentioned earlier, it may be thought that the bicycle parking space and needs do not match, but since it is only a few minutes, it is only a matter of minutes, we think that individual consciousness is the biggest problem.
Our opinion
"How can I get rid of abandoned bicycles?"" It was a difficult question, and we got an opinion among us.
Although there is an idea that it may be better to strengthen the control, this method does not seem to benefit so much because there is a collection cost for the crackdown side as well.
In commercial facilities, there are many places where there is efforts such as free time for ○ ○ free parking at the purchase price more than a certain amount like the parking lot, we think that both sides have merits.
We also discussed the measures against illegal parking that will not be removed.
For example, bicycles that are currently removed from most municipalities and moved to a storage location. How about a mechanism that can paste this like a chain or a seal that can not be taken like a car's parking violation and can be released by owner's declaration. With this method it will not incur the cost of removal, and the owner will not have to go to the storage location to pick up the bicycle.
