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Assembly rejects Bill proposal to ban pedicabs from capital's bus lanes

09 May 2006
Banning pedicabs from bus lanes would have serious road safety implications, warns the London Assembly's transport committee
Banning pedicabs from bus lanes would have serious road safety implications, warns the London Assembly's transport committee

 

The London Assembly's transport committee has called for pedicabs - or rickshaws - to be licensed but rejected plans to ban them from bus lanes.

There are an estimated 250 pedicabs on the capital's streets, concentrated in the West End where they are popular with theatregoers. Currently pedicabs cannot be ticketed for parking or obstruction offences.

"As it stands there is no way that a pedicab driver or operator can be identified if they are involved in a crash or if they are found to be...

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