Bring Back Rickshaws in City Streets
Politicians in India lately gathered at a United Nations conference in Bali. They negotiated over how to solve the growing air pollution caused by automobiles which later on can cause climate change. These politicians must have thought of the usefulness of the skylab and the rickshaw by this moment.
The skylab, a motorbike fitted with a horizontal board at back that can seat several passengers and the rickshaw a human-powered transport which uses a two-wheeled cart which have seats one or two persons (called the rickshaw wallahs locally). Both of these vehicles have the greatest potential and may invoke a big chance to battle against global warming if only they were allowed to stay on the crowded streets of the Indian capital.
One trouble with having the wallahs on city streets is that it can be ran off the road by fast motor vehicles. It is so usual in India, where traffic runs on the principle of survival of the biggest and the most able.
But even though some might think that the rickshaw shouldn't be on the road due to it can clog up, and mess the traffic, I guess Indian cities just wouldn't be the same without them. It is true that the Delhi authorities have banned them from Delhi's main roads as well as parts of the old city due to the reason of messed-up traffic. But they can be the only way of accessing narrow lanes and they can reduce the elevating amount of air pollution on the said city.
But the wallahs have their way to fight back. The NGO, Initiative for Transportation and Development Programs, has challenged the ban in the Delhi High Court demanding the authorities to provide a track for the cycle rickshaws on all main roads.
The skylab, a motorbike fitted with a horizontal board at back that can seat several passengers and the rickshaw a human-powered transport which uses a two-wheeled cart which have seats one or two persons (called the rickshaw wallahs locally). Both of these vehicles have the greatest potential and may invoke a big chance to battle against global warming if only they were allowed to stay on the crowded streets of the Indian capital.
One trouble with having the wallahs on city streets is that it can be ran off the road by fast motor vehicles. It is so usual in India, where traffic runs on the principle of survival of the biggest and the most able.
But even though some might think that the rickshaw shouldn't be on the road due to it can clog up, and mess the traffic, I guess Indian cities just wouldn't be the same without them. It is true that the Delhi authorities have banned them from Delhi's main roads as well as parts of the old city due to the reason of messed-up traffic. But they can be the only way of accessing narrow lanes and they can reduce the elevating amount of air pollution on the said city.
But the wallahs have their way to fight back. The NGO, Initiative for Transportation and Development Programs, has challenged the ban in the Delhi High Court demanding the authorities to provide a track for the cycle rickshaws on all main roads.
posted by ruben at
2:04 AM
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