Comments on: Hail-A-Cab Coming to Downtown and Hollywood? http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/29/hail-a-cab-coming-to-downtown-and-hollywood/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:23:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: LAofAnaheim http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/29/hail-a-cab-coming-to-downtown-and-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 LAofAnaheim Thu, 29 May 2008 19:02:46 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/29/hail-a-cab-coming-to-downtown-and-hollywood/#comment-1023 What bus lanes? We need more of them!!! What bus lanes? We need more of them!!!

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/29/hail-a-cab-coming-to-downtown-and-hollywood/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 ubrayj02 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:33:30 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/05/29/hail-a-cab-coming-to-downtown-and-hollywood/#comment-1020 "Taxi Town" but certainly not a bicycle taxi town. The LADOT has cut-off the hope of anyone using a bicycle taxi to ferry passengers around. Bicycles, you see, are an impediment to traffic. <blockquote>"However, Department of Transportation officials, who are charged with regulating the human-driven contraptions and ensuring that they can operate safely in a busy municipality, have reservations. A May 18 letter signed by transportation engineer Hiram Lim expressed concern that pedicabs could pose a road hazard, blocking traffic and frustrating drivers."<blockquote> - <a href="http://www.downtownnews.com/articles/2007/10/22/news/news05.txt" rel="nofollow">The Pedicab Problem</a>, LA Downtown News, October 22, 2007 "Taxi Town" but certainly not a bicycle taxi town.

The LADOT has cut-off the hope of anyone using a bicycle taxi to ferry passengers around.

Bicycles, you see, are an impediment to traffic.

"However, Department of Transportation officials, who are charged with regulating the human-driven contraptions and ensuring that they can operate safely in a busy municipality, have reservations. A May 18 letter signed by transportation engineer Hiram Lim expressed concern that pedicabs could pose a road hazard, blocking traffic and frustrating drivers."

- The Pedicab Problem, LA Downtown News, October 22, 2007

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