How do the elements of 駅の近くに壊れた自転車がずっと置いてあります work together


駅の近くに壊れた自転車がずっと置いてあります。

"Near the trainstation, there are continuously put broken bikes/there are
always broken bikes."

First, 駅の近くに: Is my interpretation as a local adverbial which doesn't directly
modify 自転車 correct?

Second: Is my interpretation of ずっと correct in this context?

Third: 置く kind of gives me a headache. Since it means "to put", I'm not sure
wether it is said that broken bikes are put/brought there, or that broken
bikes are "put" there, which basically means that they were put there, and
then got broken (which I assume is the case, but grammatically it seems
ambiguous to me). Is it very common to express this with 置く in japanese? In
both english and german I'd expect solely the copula "to be": "There **are**
broken bikes." 置く feels kind of redundant to me.




In my opinion it means that broken bicycles are constantly put (left) there,
not that the bicycles break there.

置く can also mean "to leave (behind)"

壊れた自転車 = (already) broken bicycles

置いてあります = are being left (there)

"Near the station, broken bicycles are constantly being left behind"




In my opinion it means that broken bicycles are constantly put (left) there,
not that the bicycles break there.

置く can also mean "to leave (behind)"

壊れた自転車 = (already) broken bicycles

置いてあります = are being left (there)

"Near the station, broken bicycles are constantly being left behind"

