Ride sharing bikes at Waverley Oval,Bondi Road.Credit:Lucie Billingsley
The alliance was formed in November when mayors from Inner West,City of Sydney,Randwick,Waverley,Woollahra and Canada Bay councils met to draft a set of guidelines to address the problem of haphazard placement of share bikes in parks and streets.
Inner West Council mayor Darcy Byrne,who convened the meeting,said it was important that one set of rules was established to protect pedestrian safety and ensure the success of bike share schemes.
This share bike is unlikely to be a tripping hazard.Credit:Goya Dmytryshchak
Operators will have to introduce"geo-fencing"- a virtual boundary area - for their bikes,a feature that oBike has already launched in Singapore.
Under geo-fencing,users would have to park their bikes in preferred areas or risk a penalty.
A spokeswoman from oBike Australia said it would not be implementing geo-fencing technology"anytime soon as we are still in discussions with the Sydney councils on that".
CP Lim,the head of oBike Australia,said:"We will abide by[the guidelines] to the best of our abilities within reasonable means."