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May 19, 2007 9:05 AM Subscribe
Pedicabs are a common sight all over. In the pedicab business, there can be success, personal enlightment, and failure. Pedicabs come in countless styles. This style is sleek and modern, and this man is trying to bring them to Detroit (warning, only the sparse main page is finished). Here is the mandatory YouTube video.
In recent news: Overriding Veto, Council Limits Pedicabs to 325 in New York.
posted by ericb at 9:11 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by ericb at 9:11 AM on May 19, 2007
Pedicabs Steer a Hard Road -- "The human-powered cabs are familiar sights in big cities, despite regulations and insurance woes that can make this business a very rough ride."
posted by ericb at 9:12 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by ericb at 9:12 AM on May 19, 2007
Some guys I know here in Raleigh just started up a pedicab business. And, hey, lookie here, Mefi's very own mediareport is enjoying a ride through downtown Raleigh.
posted by NoMich at 9:48 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by NoMich at 9:48 AM on May 19, 2007
Hook up a rickshaw to something like this and you could have a mani-pedicab.
posted by Rhomboid at 10:05 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by Rhomboid at 10:05 AM on May 19, 2007
Whoops! Goodbye law school, hello pedicab pilotry.
posted by grobstein
But are you street enough to join the Detroit crew?
posted by The Deej at 10:27 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by grobstein
But are you street enough to join the Detroit crew?
posted by The Deej at 10:27 AM on May 19, 2007
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if it was worthwhile to bike around in that thing just for the advertising rates.
posted by delmoi at 10:33 AM on May 19, 2007
posted by delmoi at 10:33 AM on May 19, 2007
But are you street enough to join the Detroit crew?
Well, no, almost certainly not.
posted by grobstein at 10:44 AM on May 19, 2007
Well, no, almost certainly not.
posted by grobstein at 10:44 AM on May 19, 2007
Man, do I hate these things. (Okay, disclosure time: I drove a cab for three year. Technically these guys (who first appeared a few years back in Boston) were competition, although cabbies aren't generally interested in short fares that pedicabs handle.) Mostly I disliked how they disrupted traffic and (in my opinion) gave a nice third-world flavor to an otherwise high-tech city. The streets of Boston are barely able to handle cars & bikes, let alone these ridiculous rickshaws. I can't imagine who enjoys being dragged around the dirty streets of a city, smelling the exhaust and pollution, exposed to serious injury from even a very low-impact collision.
If people want to make a difference in their travel habits, take the public transportation. Or get into the booming hybrid cab business. Keep these wheeled death-traps the hell off my streets!
posted by Banky_Edwards at 10:47 AM on May 19, 2007
If people want to make a difference in their travel habits, take the public transportation. Or get into the booming hybrid cab business. Keep these wheeled death-traps the hell off my streets!
posted by Banky_Edwards at 10:47 AM on May 19, 2007
Auto-rickshaws are the only way to travel.
posted by chunking express at 1:18 PM on May 19, 2007
posted by chunking express at 1:18 PM on May 19, 2007
The Deej: Now, this is the first I have read anything by hadjiboy (that I can recall)
Self-Link
posted by hadjiboy at 4:19 PM on May 19, 2007
Self-Link
posted by hadjiboy at 4:19 PM on May 19, 2007
Ahhhh, the implication that I read your post, thus leading to this post. Very suspicious, eh?
But no. This day in MeFi is full of odd coincidences! Despite having a common link with dhartung's comment in your thread at 7:32, I actually started this post because I found the concept of pedicabs working in Detroit to be improbable and amusing. The video was really the jumping off point, even though I placed it as the last link as a sort of punchline. The other links I found in my supporting searches.
But (to quote loquacious), well played!
posted by The Deej at 4:36 PM on May 19, 2007
But no. This day in MeFi is full of odd coincidences! Despite having a common link with dhartung's comment in your thread at 7:32, I actually started this post because I found the concept of pedicabs working in Detroit to be improbable and amusing. The video was really the jumping off point, even though I placed it as the last link as a sort of punchline. The other links I found in my supporting searches.
But (to quote loquacious), well played!
posted by The Deej at 4:36 PM on May 19, 2007
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