[sustran] Re: Meanwhile: The rickshaw's last stand

[Sarath Guttikunda]

Even in Wahsington DC downtown (Chinatown), now there are couple of Cycle
Rickshaws that go around. I don't think these are meant for long distances
as rickshaws average in Dhaka or Calcutta, but they seem to doing a fair
amount of business with the tourists.

Sarath


On 8/10/06, Robert Bartlett <roadnotes at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> I suspect rickshaws are anything but 'on the way out'. For example they
> are in increasing use in Europe and - in Europe and elsewhere - are put
> to a much greater range of uses than you might think. See the document
> "rickshaws in Dhaka" at
>
>
> http://www.schorrell-analysis.de/Publications/Publications_List/Book_6/book_6.html
>
> I'm also involved in 2 other related documents (rickshaws in Europe and
> rickshaws in India/the Ecotrike) which should be ready for publishing in
> early September.
>
> Robert Bartlett
>
>
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