BIKE TAX: 1 billion yen/yr for parking?

[Taro Toporific]

[Caustic Saint]

...the ward spends about 1 billion yen annually to arrange or remove the bikes, prompting officials to demand railway companies shoulder part of the burden.

But what do they do with the bikes after they remove them? If they're not returned to the owners, can't they just sell them to recover some of their removal/sorting/storage costs?

[AssKissinger]

Now Caustic be careful, that would make sense, if any Ilbon-Sarum (that's K-Talk for Nihon-Jin folks) read this their heads could explode.

[Taro Toporific]

...the ward spends about 1 billion yen annually to arrange or remove the bikes, prompting officials to demand railway companies shoulder part of the burden.

But what do they do with the bikes after they remove them? If they're not returned to the owners, can't they just sell them to recover some of their removal/sorting/storage costs?

The use forklifts to scoop them up and ship 'em to Lil' Kim as gifts. <insert real Kyodo news photo from 2-3 months ago of a N. Korean ship with a 15 meter high, tangled mass of bicycles lashed with bailing twine to the decks>

[Shinigami]

That would make way tooooo much sense for the japanese brain to handle [/quote]