Roughly 90 percent of Tokyo's 13.1 million residents commute to work each day by rail, with a third of those riding their bikes on the "last mile" to and from the train station. The result: as many as 3.5 million bikes left illegally parked on city streets every day, crowding already packed sidewalks and exposing the bikes to weather and thievery.
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