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	Cycle rickshaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cycle rickshaw, also known as a pedicab, velotaxi, or trishaw, is a human-powered vehicle for hire, usually with one or two seats for carrying passengers in addition to the driver.
		Cycle rickshaws are widely used for transportation in many parts of Asia, where they have largely replaced less-efficient rickshaws that are pulled by a person on foot.
		Cycle rickshaws are known as cyclo (pronounced see-clo) in Cambodia and Vietnam, cycle rickshaw in India and Bangladesh, samlor (literally "three wheels") in Thailand, trishaw (Traditional Chinese: 三輪車; Simplified Chinese: 三轮车; pinyin: sān lún chē) from "tricycle rickshaw", in Malaysia and Singapore, becak in Indonesia and bicitaxi or taxi ecologico (literally "ecological taxi") in Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cycle_rickshaw (988 words)

	Rickshaws in the new millennium
		Cycle rickshaws also gave a little dignity to the profession by making the service provider a driver rather than a puller (though the word puller is still widely used which seemingly is a term borrowed from the era of hand pulled rickshaws).
		The principal idea was to develop a modern cycle rickshaw that could demonstrate the possibility of growth of this traditional mode of transportation in India to counter the growing menace of motor vehicular pollution.
		Were cycle rickshaws in the area banned all together, this population of poor people would be forced to seek employment in the other employment available to them, the wages for which tend to be lower than for cycle rickshaw operation.
	www.itdp.org /PR/rickshaws.html (3867 words)

	ELECTRIC AND SOLAR POWERED TRIKES, RICKSHAWS AND TRICYCLES, LYNCH MOTORS \| SOLAR AND BATTERY (ASSISTED) ELECTRIC ...
		Rickshaws were mainly used in Asia, but nowadays they are outlawed in many places and have been replaced by cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws (and the term "rickshaw" is today commonly used for these vehicles as well).
		Rickshaws were invented in Japan at the end of the 19th century by a European missionary named Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama.
		Estimates based on the figures that each rickshaw is operated by two pullers in morning and evening shifts and the average number of family members of a rickshaw puller is five, suggest that the rickshaws of Dhaka city alone is a source of income for nearly three million people.
	www.speedace.info /electric_rickshaw_trike.htm (2322 words)

	Rickshaw Pedicab Rickshaws Pedicabs
		A Pedicab, also known as a cycle rickshaw, trishaw or biketaxi, is a human-powered vehicle, usually with one or two seats for carrying passengers in addition to the driver.
		Rickshaws are widely used all over Asia, where they have largely replaced less-efficient hand-pulled rickshaws that required the driver to walk or run while pulling the vehicle.
		Pedicabs are known as a cyclo (pronounced see-clo) in Cambodia and Vietnam, a cycle rickshaw in India, a trishaw in Singapore and a becak in Indonesia.
	rickshawforum.com (245 words)

	ALL DELHI CYCLE RICKSHAW OPERATORS UNION ETC v. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI & ORS. ETC [1987] INSC 2; [1987] 1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		of them own two or more cycle rickshaws which are hired out by them to rickshaw pullen under a contract under which the rickshaw pullen have to pay some amount to the owners of the cycle rickshaws at the end of the day out of their earnings during the day.
		No person shall keep or ply for the hire a cycle rickshaw in Delhi unless he himself is the owner thereof and holds a licence granted in that behalf by the Commissioner on payment of the fee that may, from time to time, be fixed under sub-section (2) of section 430.
		them own two or more cycle rickshaws which are hired out by them to rickshaw pullers under a contract under which the rickshaw pullers have to pay some amount to the owners of the cycle rickshaws at the end of the day out of their earnings during the day.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1987/2.html (2221 words)

	Welcome to Dhaka City Corporation
		When the cycle rickshaw appeared, the horse carriage was the main form of public transport and their drivers gave the early rickshaw pullers a hard time.
		The body of the Rickshaw shall be sound and clean and all the boards strong and properly secured and it must be spacious enough in breadth to accommodate two healthy persons comfortably.
		Any rickshaw plying on the pourashava road without exhibition of the pourashava Number as aforesaid shall be liable to be seized and confiscated or if the Rickshaw so seized were one registered in the pourashava its License shall cancelled.
	www.dhakacity.org /wheel_tax.html (2134 words)

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - Is it goodbye to Delhi's cycle rickshaws?
		But some section of people argue that rickshaws should be banned on the ground that it is ‘inhuman’ on the part of a human to pull the weight of his fellow human beings.
		Incorporating newer designs, rickshaws can be used for a wide range of purposes like garbage collection, carrying babies and for handicapped people, says Nalin noting that cycle rickshaws are the most ideal ones for short distance travel.
		Moreover, the modern cycle rickshaws are quite popular among the tourists and as many as three lakh such rickshaws are running on the roads in India.
	www.cleanairnet.org /caiasia/1412/article-71097.html (404 words)

	Rickshaw presented in Culture section
		Rickshaws and their riders have been studied by engineers, evaluated by transportation economists and analyzed by sociologists.
		Rickshaw?s required only one puller, compared with the two to four footmen required to carry a single person on a palanquin.
		Cycle rickshaw first came into existence in India in the early forties of the last century.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/rickshaw (906 words)

	::Welcome to CCS::
		Any cycle rickshaw found plying for hire without a licence or found driven by a person not having proper licence as provided under bye-law 3(1) and (2) shall be liable to be seized by the Commissioner or a person duly authorised by him in his behalf.
		The cycle rickshaw, so seized shall be disposed off by public auction after dismantling, deformation of such process including smashing it into a scrap after a reasonable time as may be decided by the Commissioner from time to time.
		It is a vicious cycle- because of their illegal status, they are exposed to constant harassment, and extortion at the hands of the concerned authorities who have a vested interest in keeping them illegal since they stand to gain from the constant payment of bribes to ward off evictions.
	www.ccsindia.org /lft.asp (1660 words)

	TED Case Study Template
		The cycle rickshaw was banned in New Delhi, the capital of India more than ten years ago and faces the prospect of similar bans in other Indian cities.
		There is no official log of unregistered cycle rickshaws, however sources in Agra estimate that there are at least another 10,000 to 20,000 unregistered cycle rickshaws employing another 30,000 to 60,000 wala Thus, the total number of jobs created by the provision of cycle rickshaw service in Agra ranges from 30,000 to 90,000 people.
		It is estimated that 30% to 40% of rickshaw wala own and operate their own vehicles, and the remaining 60% to 70% rent them from an owner of a cycle rickshaw fleet.
	www.american.edu /TED/taj.htm (3252 words)

	Chasing rickshaws - Salon
		The subcontinent's rickshaws use a normal bicycle front fork and wheel, and as a result the front half of the rickshaw wants to act like a bicycle and veer off to one side when a sideways force is applied.
		Having got your rickshaw moving and round the odd corner, the final problem is bringing it to a halt.
		Rickshaws have appeared in books and films -- the becaks of Jakarta featured centrally in "The Year of Living Dangerously," while Calcutta's hard-working rickshaw-wallahs were the stars of "The City of Joy" -- and the machines, their riders and their customers have been studied by engineers, evaluated by transport economists and analyzed by sociologists.
	dir.salon.com /story/travel/feature/1998/10/22/pass/?pn=2 (631 words)

	::Welcome to CCS::
		In Delhi, cycle rickshaws are governed by the Article 3 (1) of the Cycle Rickshaw Bye-Laws of 1960, framed under Section 481 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act of 1957.
		According to the policy introduced in 1998, "unlicensed" rickshaws shall not be released at all.
		A new cycle rickshaw can be purchased for Rs 3000-4000 and a used one for Rs 1000-1500.
	www.ccsindia.org /ccsindia/people_pjs_freedom.asp (905 words)

	Electric and Improved Cycle Rickshaw as a Sustainable Transport System for India - Anil K. Rajvanshi
		The existing cycle rickshaw has been completely reengineered for the safety and comfort of passengers and to reduce the workload on the rickshaw puller.
		Discussions with a large number of rickshaw pullers also revealed that their drudgery will be reduced drastically if a small motor is attached to the rickshaw so that it can assist their pedaling whenever they experienced load or while going uphill.
		Most of the rickshaw pullers are migrant laborers and are either known to the owner or to other rickshaw pullers who are driving the owner´s rickshaws.
	www.eco-web.com /editorial/06554.html (3365 words)

	The Hindu : Wonder pedal rickshaw with motor
		FOLLOWING THE successful trials of a Motor-Assisted Pedal Cycle Rickshaw, the first of its kind developed in the country, at the University of Pune campus, it is all set to be introduced in the Taj Mahal at Agra and at Hampi in Karnataka.
		"In the former category of design innovation, the existing cycle rickshaw has been completely re-engineered for the safety and comfort of passengers and to reduce the workload on the rickshaw-puller," says Dr. Raghuvanshi, who also feels that the rickshaw-pullers in various cities and towns need to be organised into co-operatives.
		Discussions with a large number of rickshaw-pullers also revealed that their drudgery would be reduced drastically if a small motor is attached to the rickshaw so that it can assist their pedalling whenever they experienced load or while going uphill.
	www.hindu.com /lf/2003/11/18/stories/2003111801090200.htm (489 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Delhi court bans cycle rickshaws
		The cycle rickshaw, the ubiquitous symbol of urban transport in India, has run into a pot hole.
		The authorities in Delhi say there are other areas where the cycle rickshaws are free to continue working.
		"A parked car is a dead use of space, but the cycle rickshaw provides service to at least a hundred people per day, and it gives employment to the puller, the owner, and the repairman," she says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/5388374.stm (503 words)

	rediff.com: When in Manhattan, don't forget rickshaw : BS
		The new rickshaw is almost 45 kg lighter than the traditional rickshaw-while the older models weigh 95-100 kg, the new ones weigh 50-55 kg.
		Overall, the human effort in pulling this rickshaw is half of pulling the older rickshaw.
		After seeing the rickshaws in India, an environment-friendly transporter took some of these to Oxford where she is operating a paddle taxi service.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/nov/16ricksh.htm (407 words)

	Gobar Times Magazine (Environment for Kids Monthly) - Centre for Science and Environment
		Cycle rickshaws offered (they still do), a legitimate source of livelihood to the migrant labourers, who trooped to the cities and towns everyday from villages and hamlets, in search of roziroti.
		Driving rickshaws required minimum skill and the labourers had the option of hiring the vehicles on daily rent from the local transport contractors.
		Die-hard supporters of cycle rickshaws claim that this version of the vehicle is sufficiently mechanised.
	www.gobartimes.org /20061031/gt_openforum2.htm (717 words)

	Non-Motorized Vehicle Design
		Unlike many transport sector interventions aimed only at improving the environment, ITDP's Indian Cycle Rickshaw Modernization Project cleans the air and increases employment and income among the poor, while keeping the cost of the vehicle roughly constant.
		The biggest difference is that while the Indian rickshaw passenger sits behind the driver, in Indonesia the driver is seated behind the passenger bench.
		The traditional becak is much more comfortable than a traditional Indian cycle rickshaw, but it is also much heavier, around 100kg, and very hard to steer.
	www.itdp.org /programs/rickshaw.html (411 words)

	AZAD RICKHAW PULLERS UNION (REGD.) CH. TOWN HALL, AMRITSAR & v. STATE OF PUNJAB & OTHERS [1980] INSC 145; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The loan amount shall be repaid by the rickshaw puller concerned in 15 monthly instalments or in weekly or daily instalments so that by the end of each month 1/15th of the amount is cleared).
		The rickshaw pliers shall, or purchase, hypothecate the vehicles to the bank which advances the loan and this will be an undertaking to the court.
		It is a notorious fact that rickshaw pullers have an occupational hazard and suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis and so, the State must be deeply concerned progressively to replace rickshaw pulling with mechanical propulsion.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1980/145.html (2101 words)

	The Hindu : For 40 years with a cycle rickshaw
		Cycle rickshaw are a rarity in the city now.
		But Raman chettan has been on it for the last 40 years and is still at it, carrying kids to school.
		He took on this vocation when the streets of Kochi were less crowded and did not come under the assault of auto-rickshaws.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2003/05/19/stories/2003051900300200.htm (492 words)

	DAWN - Features; January 23, 2003
		Mohammad Mukhtiar said he had been driving rickshaw for the last 10 years and become a TB patient but could not leave the job because of his four children.
		A new rickshaw costs Rs5,000, but there are many drivers who cannot afford even this much, so they drive rented rickshaws which cost them Rs25 a day.
		Normally, a rickshaw carries six passengers (three at the front and three at the back) but in some cases they also carry two additional passengers.
	www.dawn.com /2003/01/23/fea.htm (1383 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| Chasing rickshaws
		Not only does the rickshaw's position in the transport mix vary from city to city, the riders and other rickshaw people are an equally mixed bunch.
		In Beijing we were lectured on how good rickshaw riding was for the health, in Calcutta we visited rickshaw pullers' dormitories and in Dhaka we talked to the artists who paint and decorate the region's most dramatically colorful rickshaws.
		In the other cities, the rickshaw, a creation of the 1880s, gave birth to the cycle-rickshaw during the 1930s and 1940s, but no standard pattern developed for this new-fangled device.
	www.salon.com /wlust/pass/1998/10/22pass.html (801 words)

	ELECTRIC CYCLE RICKSHAWS AS A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
		Work done at our Institute has shown that improved cycle rickshaws powered by electric motor and batteries have a potential to provide an attractive alternative to petrol and diesel powered three wheelers.
		This rickshaw is made of mild steel angles, is light in weight and is sturdy.
		Thus it seems that for both rickshaw puller and owner it is economically viable to ply these rickshaws.
	nariphaltan.virtualave.net /att42.htm (2619 words)

	Rickshaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rickshaws are also available all over the Bangladesh.
		Rickshaw puller is known as "rickshawala" in Bangla/Bengali.
		No new licenses for rickshaws have been issued since 1975, and only a few old men--about 15 as of 1999, and only four as of 2002--still ply their trade, mainly by posing for pictures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rickshaw (1309 words)

	Kids News
		The rickshaw has been created under the "The India Cycle Rickshaw Improvement Project." Two organisations have been involved in the project: the Delhi-based Asian Institute of Transport Development and the new York-based Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.
		The rickshaw handle is too small and it is the only way to balance the machine, its rider, passengers and loads, if any.
		And because the rickshaw is the poor man's vehicle, there has been no serious attempt to design effective rickshaws.
	www.pitara.com /news/news_indepth_india/online.asp?story=9 (640 words)

	BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC SOLAR POWERED RICKSHAW \| SOLAR AND BATTERY (ASSISTED) ELECTRIC TRANSPORT \| BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC CARS
		Bluebird Electric Racing Ltd are part funding the research and build of a lightweight solar powered rickshaw which has the ability to replace the millions of fossil and pedal rickshaws that operate throughout Asia.
		ELECSHA plan to introduce these rickshaws in the cities of Lucknow and Pune where maximum number of cycle rickshaws and autorickshaws respectively, ply the country.
		A minimum of seven solar powered rickshaws will be used to transport participants part of the way along the route of the Royal Rajasthan Solar Rally, organised by the Maharana Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) and Malcolm Moss, for 29th March 2003.
	www.solarnavigator.net /solar_powered_rickshaw.htm (2625 words)

	American Topics : Rickshaw Goes Back To Drawing Board
		It is time, Indian government engineers say, to design a better cycle rickshaw, The Washington Post reports from New Delhi.
		They are heavy and difficult to pedal, with a poor center of gravity that makes it too easy to tip over and a hard seat that jars the driver when bumping over potholes.
		"Plying a cycle rickshaw is real drudgery," said Ashok Raj, one of the authors of the study by the New Delhi-based Center for Science Technology and Environmental Policy Studies.
	www.iht.com /articles/1994/01/21/topics_11.php (226 words)

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