Hey, it will help you kick the obesity (along with the enforced famine), and you can blow fart mist at them while you are pumping the peddles.
"Gas prices fuel rickshaw defenders; Advocates hail pedal-powered transportation" by Emily Wax, Washington Post | June 29, 2008
NEW DELHI - The bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses, and cows.
In this city and the other quickly modernizing capitals of South Asia, governments have called the rickshaws backward, embarrassing symbols of the Third World.
Now, however, in a time of $7-a-gallon fuel in New Delhi and growing concerns about pollution, environmental activists and transportation specialists are pushing back against rickshaw critics. And rickshaw cyclists are seizing the moment to hail the virtues of their trade.
An international nonprofit group, the Initiative for Transportation and Development Policy, challenged the ban in India's Supreme Court this month, saying current economic and environmental conditions have made rickshaws more necessary than ever.
Why am I smelling GLOBALISTS here?!
Nalin Sinha, program director for the group's New Delhi office:
"These bikes are wonderful alternatives. They provide an affordable, smog-free choice, but unfortunately, when the whole world is talking about the environment, we in South Asia are talking about 'development.' We somehow think we are better if we have hordes of swanky cars."
Hello, 'murkns!!!!
New Delhi's Center for Science and Environment is also pushing for the court to overturn the ban in Chandni Chowk. The group has pointed to increases in the city's pollution and in the number of children with asthma, blaming the growing number of motor vehicles. India's economic boom is adding nearly 1,000 cars a day to the capital's streets.
I was just wondering when the RICHERS start CUTTING BACK.
Here are TWO EXAMPLES:
"ferried to the event by a fleet of 40 school buses."
"the first lady arrived in a motorcade of sport utility vehicles"
And what are you guys trying to do, wreck the AUTO INDUSTRY and KILL ECONOMIC GROWTH?
Some activists in India cite the increasing number of bicycle rickshaws being used in cities such as London, Paris, New York and Washington, often in neighborhoods with high congestion and heavy foot traffic. Local governments have welcomed the rickshaws as environmentally friendly alternatives.
Better get yourself a job application then, 'murkn!
The term "rickshaw" is derived from jinrikisha, the Japanese word for man-powered carriage. In Bangladesh's traffic-clogged capital of Dhaka, where there have been widespread protests over the rising prices of rice and fuel, rickshaw cyclist Shamsul Haque said business has never been better.
So WHY is the MSM HIDING THOSE PROTESTS?
Don't want AmneriKans to GET ANY IDEAS, huh?
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