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Originally Posted by casimendocina
Are the pedi-cabs a viable means of transport or a novelty that is likely to disappear? Just asking as I've seen them elsewhere and the only people who used them were the tourists.
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Around here they're definitely used by locals, but really only to go from one bar to the next, or from the bar to wherever you parked. Our downtown area is fairly spread out, yet at the same time parking is for shit. The pedicabs don't leave the bar district unless you live in one of the downtown condos a few blocks away.
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
But they're wider than bikes, so they probably can't really use bike lanes, which puts them right back into regular traffic. You could say they're saving gas, but that cab you're not using is still driving around empty looking for someone else, and I doubt the pedi-cabs will reach a volume that will decrease the gasi-cab fleet size.
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Around here, bar district traffic is at a feeble crawl on weekend nights anyway, and the bike lanes are full of parked cars. We don't have a viable cab system in the city at all; if you want one you have to call the cab company and wait 30 minutes for them to come. So our pedicabs are only replacing people on foot. It definitely isn't a model that would work for all cities, but it's doing pretty well here.