I'm at the corner of Live Oak and Olive streets downtown. There are 30 bikes stretched along the sidewalk. Four are strewn over each other like dirty clothes on the floor. How did this happen?

It's a combination of disrespectful bike riders, people fed up or indifferent, and bike share companies operating without regulation. For the city, something that was supposed to be a convenience has become a mess of urban litter.

The mangled remains of a LimeBike rental bike lie alongside I-35E in downtown Dallas on Nov. 11, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

City officials have discussed cracking down and imposing regulations — including where the bikes will be allowed and the number of bikes per square mile. Highland Park has promised to impound any dockless bike left overnight. But where does that leave the one I saw dumped in a creek bed, the one my husband found floating in White Rock Lake while he was fishing, or the destroyed LimeBike I photographed on Interstate 35?

This is certain: The bikes have changed our landscape. You can't walk along a downtown sidewalk without navigating around them. I can't go for a run around White Rock Lake without seeing one toppled over in a ditch. Abandoned bikes are part of the scenery and look to remain so until change is imposed by law.

This collection of photos depicts what I saw.

Two LimeBike rental bikes are submerged in White Rock Lake in Dallas on Jan. 5, 2018. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

Thirty rental bikes are propped and piled on the corner of Live Oak and Olive streets in downtown Dallas on Jan. 4, 2018. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A VBike rental bike is left up on an elevated billboard along West Lawther Drive in Dallas on Oct. 23, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A LimeBike rental lies on its side near Winfrey Point near White Rock Lake in Dallas on Oct. 23, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A sign advertising shelled pecans is stuck through an overturned LimeBike on the sidewalk along Henderson Avenue in Dallas on Dec. 21, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A LimeBike rental bike is left in a marshy area under a bridge near White Rock Lake in Dallas on Dec. 27, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A LimeBike rental bike was abandoned along Houston Street in Dallas on Oct. 30, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

A LimeBike rental bike is parked in a lot in downtown Dallas on Oct. 24, 2017. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)