Multi-layered bicycle parking lots established recently between Huilongguan and Shangdi subway stations on Line 13 in Changping and Haidian districts, one of Beijing's busiest traffic sections, has been spruced up to end the chaotic overcrowding of sharing bikes parked there during rush hours.

The new parking lots, double-decker or with multiple spaces rotating like a sky wheel, are able to offer spaces for about 5,000 bikes.

The sky-wheel parking lot, officially known as a tridimensional vertically rotating bicycle parking lot, have five different sections. When one section is fully occupied, the another will descend to the ground after the button for automatic rotation is pressed, the whole process taking about 40 seconds.

The 7.7-meter-high rotating parking lot, occupying a land area of 220 square meters, has a capacity to park 650 bikes, which is 510 more than the capacity of a single ground parking lot previously used in the same area. According to Wang Jing, director of the Urban Transportation Maintenance Department of Shougang Group, it is an innovative design that has yet to be launched elsewhere across the country.

The double-decker parking lots, with a total capacity of 4,080, can elevate the bicycles to the second floor as long as they are correctly wedged into grooves to enable them to be lifted by the black wrenches alongside.

The construction lasted for more than one month. Now, the double-decker parking lots flank the roads heading to subway stations, while the rotating ones are tucked into corners to make full use of idle space.

People are required to park their sharing bikes in designated parking lots. However, random parking is still occurring here and there.

"We have trained a number of people responsible for the maintenance of those bike parking lots and are guiding people to park appropriately," Wang said.

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