Pedal pushers
The Alive
By Brittany Kress
May 22, 2008Cycling through High Street traffic while pulling two adults in a carriage on wheels isn’t as easy as it sounds. Oh, right. It doesn’t sound easy.
But a month into business for Columbus’ startup foot-powered pedicab service, people are into it, with drivers excited about getting paid to get fit and riders interested in supporting a green business.
ETC Pedicabs is a Downtown-centric service that kicked off at the beginning of the month and operates whenever Mike Sorboro’s loose association of drivers wants to troll the area — usually on nights and weekends.
ETC Pedicabs provides new transit option Downtown
May 23, 2008 by walkerevans
Similar article in the Dispatch:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/06/21/1A_PEDICAB.ART_ART_06-21-08_D1_FQAH6LP.html?sid=101
Would you like to bring a Pedicab to our SummerFest Parade on August 9? It begins at 4:30 p.m. and you can find a parade form on our website – http://www.stmarysohio.org under the SummerFest heading. See the parade form near the top of the page above the calendar.
The article lists the phone number for ETC Pedicabs as 614-207-9378. You should give them a call, since none of the writers for this website operate a pedicab business.
I bike for sustainability. Here’s a cool idea that I received which I hope may be widely adopted (there should be a simple conversion rate for avoided pollution per mile traveled on the bike):
Bicycle Taxi Receipts Show Passengers Their CO2 Reduction Effect
On April 21, 2008, the Ecological-Cities Promoting Association — a non-profit organization promoting the use of a type of bicycle taxi in Japan called the Velotaxi — started to print the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduced on receipts for passengers in Tokyo and Kyoto.
The calculation is based on a comparison of the Velotaxi with an ordinary automobile’s emissions. With the commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol beginning, this is a new campaign to promote and encourage the achievement of Kyoto’s goal. http://www.japanfs.org/db/2168-e
good to see these zero emission vehicles in 24 cities in 22 prefectures in Japan now
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/velotaxis-in-japan