Only with “co-governance” can there be “sharing”
2024-08-13
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Original title: Only with “co-governance” can there be “sharing”
I once saw many shared bikes piled up by a shallow river in Beijing. I thought they were scrapped, but when I got closer, I found that most of them were intact. A cleaner nearby was used to it: "Because many people parked their bikes randomly, blocking the way of subway passengers, they were piled up casually. Someone will come to deal with it later." As soon as he finished speaking, a small truck drove up, the driver got out, quickly loaded the bikes onto the truck bed, and ran to the next work site with sweat dripping from his eyes.
Soon after, a 10-meter-long bicycle parking area was marked out here. Illegal parking has gradually become less common, and even if a bicycle is parked outside the designated area, passersby will pull it into the parking area. A simple white frame has become a "catalyst" for people to park shared bicycles in a civilized manner.
Nowadays, more and more cities are deploying more such "catalysts" through refined management: Beijing has issued the "Beijing Internet Rental Bicycle Operation Service Supervision and Management Measures", which has formulated a series of specific regulations such as vehicle deployment, vehicle maintenance, electronic fences, order management, and complaint handling. Shanghai has set up many devices near shared bicycle parking spots to transmit parking signals. Many cities also carry out special governance on a regular basis to target illegal deployment, abandoned vehicles and other chaos... Although the explorations in various places are different, they all point to a common goal: to use rules and technology to guide people to jointly maintain the parking order of shared bicycles, so that citizens can achieve "sharing" in "co-governance".
As a green and convenient means of transportation, shared bicycles solve the "last mile" of people's travel. However, the disorderly phenomena such as random parking, occupying sidewalks, and random discarding not only disrupted the normal traffic order, but also had a negative impact on the city's appearance. On the surface, the reasons for these problems are irregular management and inadequate operation and maintenance capabilities, but at a deeper level, it is because urban civilization needs to grow together with new things brought about by technological progress - shared bicycles are a new thing in the city, and there must be corresponding civilized use norms. While people share convenience, only by jointly caring for public transportation can they better serve the public.
From this perspective, shared bikes are not only helping people solve the "last mile" of travel, but also testing whether people have walked the "last mile" of urban civilization well, which is the cornerstone of the healthy development of shared bikes. And popularizing the concept of co-governance and sharing is the key to establishing urban civilization.
In order to cultivate the awareness of "co-governance" and nurture urban civilization, all sectors of society have made a lot of explorations. For example, some schools have launched a shared bicycle co-governance action. The school will include participation in shared bicycle governance in the optional project of comprehensive quality development credits for college students. Student volunteers can accumulate credits by participating in the reasonable use of shared bicycles publicity activities and maintaining the parking order of shared bicycles. Some companies have also set up work-study positions. Students can use their spare time to participate in the publicity and guidance of civilized riding of shared bicycles around the school, the maintenance of bicycle parking order, and the reporting of vehicle abnormalities, and receive academic subsidies provided by bicycle companies... These measures continue to promote the civilized parking of shared bicycles and work together to maintain the appearance of the city, which has become a social consensus.
This consensus is both knowable and tangible. With the joint efforts of all sectors of society, the phenomenon of "random parking" of shared bicycles has been greatly reduced. Shared bicycles are parked in an orderly manner on the streets and alleys of Chinese cities, making life more convenient and relaxing. The author has seen foreign tourists taking photos of the neat and straight "long lines of bicycles" on the streets more than once. They posted these photos and videos on social networks and liked them: "This is a beautiful landscape in Chinese cities." (Lu Zehua)
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
