JOURNALISM CLUB WEEKLY MAGAZINE
MR. COOK
Yuteh Weekly
Journalism Club Magazine 2019 - Week 5 COVER BY: YOUBIKE – TAIWAN BICYCLE RENTAL SYSTEM
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Global Trend: Taiwan YouBike (UBike) Article by: Jeffery https://a07103.wixsite.com/website/blog
"U Bike" is a bicycle rental transportation system, which can be used for many different
As you can see from the picture
reasons. For example, if you don’t
above, there are different kinds of
want to buy the bicycle, you can
cars and scooters on the road. It is
A few years ago the Taiwanese
just go to borrow the UBike, and
very bad because if there are
government started to put many
travel to where you want to go.
more cars or motorcycles on the
bikes everywhere. You can see
So, it is very convenient to use
road, it will be very bad for
the "U Bike" nearby your house,
the YouBike bicycles. If there are
Taiwan. This is because it will
or maybe you can see it beside
more UBikes, maybe there will be
cause more air pollution. So, I
the convenience market. This
some people who will change
hope that everyone can try to ride
kind of bike is called YouBike, or
their minds that they do not need
the bicycle, just like Pan Chung-
U Bike.
the scooter. They can just ride
Cheng (潘忠政) who is from the
"I hope that everyone can try to
UBike to school or to other
ride the bicycle” Pan Chung-Cheng
places, such as their work.
environmental group Cherish Taoyuan Algal Reef (珍愛桃園藻礁).
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Lai Ching -te also reiterated the
This is because they really want
I hope the government can build
government’s determination to
to make Taiwan to become the
more cycle paths, like the one in
support green energy. The
better place, with lower air
China, japan, and Holland.
government are constantly
pollution, and fresher air. But, if
Actually, China has the longest
looking at policies and plans to
we really want Taiwan to have
cycle path in the world, which was
give Taiwan its fresh air back.
lower pollution, we cannot give
designed and completed in six
The Taiwanese government do
all the work to the government.
months. The project was the
have some solutions to fix the air
We must start with ourselves, for
latest in a number of raised cycle-
pollution in Taiwan. So far, they
example we can avoid using cars
ways by Danish architects
have tried many different ways to
or motorcycles. We can try to
Dissing+Weitling. Another great
stop the issue getting worse. One
take buses, or ride the UBike.
project, the ‘Bicycle Snake’, is a
way was to put many UBikes all around Taipei. They put the bike stations outside of train station, and convenience stores.
230 m bridge that connects "Only we can change the air quality in Taipei. Let’s start by using Taiwan’s UBike” Jeffery
Copenhagen’s harbor area to the city. I hope that Taiwan can build cycle-paths like this too.
Taiwan’s YouBike Can Improve Air Quality