Photo: Andrea Giuricin/Facebook.
"This is why Italians can't have nice things."
That's how an Italian academic captioned his Facebook post when he saw bikes belonging to Mobike and Ofo bikeshare companies dumped in a canal in Milan.
“The political class is the mirror of the people,” Giuricin wrote in his Facebook post.
Bike-sharing relies on two principles, he said: an economic one, that bikes have to be readily available all over the city, but also a civic one – that people won’t destroy them.
His post got thousands of reactions from other users who posted their own images of vandalized bikes.
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Ofo said it is "updating its system" to prevent further vandalism, basically imposing fines and banning the vandals.
Dockless bikeshare vandalism isn't just an Italian problem. It has created major problems in Chinese cities where they originated and in all other countries where they were introduced.
