Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedicabs

Pedi Politics

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 17, 2007 | 6 Comments

On Monday, April 23, the day after Earth Day and the Mayor’s Long-Term Sustainability speech, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to hold a decisive vote on Intro. 331-A, a law limiting and restricting pedicabs. Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the bill but rather than going back and trying to improve the legislation by, say, simply increasing […]

Pedicab Limits: Let the Free Market Decide

By Jason Varone | Apr 13, 2007 | 4 Comments

This NY Sun editorial weighs in on the proposed pedicab restrictions: Imagine if the long-distance bus industry were allowed to set a limit on the number of airline flights in and out of New York City, or if the beer industry were allowed to place a cap on the number of bottles of wine that […]

Quinn’s Pedicab Problem: Personal or Political?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is reportedly pressuring — some might say coercing — council members into backing her effort to override of Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of stringent pedicab restrictions. Tony Avella of Queens talked to the Sun about Quinn’s anti-pedicab campaign among council members. Mr. Avella said his colleagues are following Ms. Quinn’s wishes […]

City Council Set To Vote on Pedicabs Today

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 7 Comments

onNYTurf reports: What started as a very positive process to bring much desired regulation to the growing pedicab industry has been completely turned on its head, and this afternoon city council is scheduled to vote on a bill that has become so twisted that the bill’s sponsor and a co-sponsor have taken their names off […]

Pedicab Rally in the News

By Jason Varone | Feb 14, 2007 | 8 Comments

AMNY reports: The City Council is poised to put the brakes on New York’s freewheeling pedicabs, prompting hundreds of their drivers to say the regulations would devastate a pollution-free way to get around town. "They say we are causing traffic congestion," said pedicab driver Mega Martinez, 43, at a protest Tuesday. "How can that be? […]

Today’s Rally Against Pedicab Regulations

By Jason Varone | Feb 13, 2007 | 8 Comments

Chad Marlow of the Public Advocacy Group is at the podium. Concerned pedicab owners, drivers and their supporters met on the steps of City Hall at noon to lift the veil off ongoing negotiations to reconcile the Mayor’s and City Council’s pedicab regulation bills. What we want is something that addresses the problem of bunching […]

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