Problem and Solution

Lack of parking lot for bicycle is serious problem in Osaka. First, using bicycle is a good thing for environment, but there is no plan to support it in Osaka. Osaka has a big population, thus so many people use a bicycle when they go to the station, office, school, supermarket and so on. However, there are not enough parking lots for bicycles. Second, illegal parking is increasing. People don’t have enough parking lots for bicycle, so they park their bicycle on road or wherever they like. It causes other problems which prevent walking or hinder driving. Then, each city strictly prohibits illegal parking and removes them, but people do it again and again because parking lots don’t increase. Finally, we, each city and citizen, don’t have benefit together. Each city has to pay a lot of money for removing bicycles, keeping bicycles and personnel cost. And we, citizen have to pay 1’500 yen per a bicycle in Hirakata when we want to recover our bicycle from the city. This vicious cycle will continue, as long as each city doesn’t have solution.
One solution is increasing of parking lots for bicycles and decreasing the charge of　the parking. First, cities should use citizen’s money more usefully. It costs a lot of money to build parking lots of bicycles, but it also costs big money to remove illegal bicycles! And charge of parking is little expensive for us. It is one reason of illegal parking, so cities should not prohibit them, but think about the way of decreasing them. Second, Osaka has small ground and so many buildings, but we can make parking lot if we use ground effectively. Other prefecture have parking lot for bicycle under ground and have a solid one. If we use them, we don’t need large ground. We have many ways to solve the problem. If there are enough parking lots for bicycles, citizen can live with no worry.