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Rickshaws

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  • 14-12-2017 9:56pm
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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,473 ✭✭✭✭


    Are these common in other Irish and EU cities? A lot in Dublin but totally unregulated.

    Dublin City Council considering ban. Should they be banned?


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    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Are these common in other Irish and EU cities? A lot in Dublin but totally unregulated.

    Dublin City Council considering ban. Should they be banned?

    They are spreading like wildfire... I've even seen them in China!!


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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,217 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    They should have public liability inshuredance.


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    [Deleted User]
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    was collecting someone from the 3 arena recently. Pure madness. They would arrive together in huge groups, they’d see the guards and they’d all do a u turn together in the middle of the road blocking traffic both directions, more than 50. Thry would then come back and try again. They would continue this cycle until one of the lucky few managed to pickup a passenger before the guards started walking towards them.

    How are they allowed away with this? Then two of them proceeded to race down the quays with passengers, nearly crashing into a car in the process


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    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    This topic has been done to death on Boards.

    Yes they should be banned, what to do with the people operating them,
    now that's a topic for discussion.


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    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    I don't mind them personally, cheap alternative to taxis when you want to get somewhere relatively close by quickly. But the speed they travel through pedestrian areas with seemingly very little concern about hitting somebody is a bit unnerving


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    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    A know a Rick Shaw, I wouldn't mind if he got banned


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    jamesbere wrote: »
    A know a Rick Shaw, I wouldn't mind if he got banned

    Rick's a good guy


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    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    imme wrote: »
    what to do with the people operating them,
    now that's a topic for discussion.

    The drivers should be fully licensed to own and operate Rickshaws.

    At one and the same time Rickshaws will be permanently and completely banned in Ireland.


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    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    More commercial red tape and regulation is the last thing we need.


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    Agent Coulson
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    jamesbere wrote: »
    A know a Rick Shaw, I wouldn't mind if he got banned

    Does he park in Elaine?


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    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    wakka12 wrote: »
    I don't mind them personally, cheap alternative to taxis when you want to get somewhere relatively close by quickly. But the speed they travel through pedestrian areas with seemingly very little concern about hitting somebody is a bit unnerving

    Maybe in Dublin. But one in London wanted £20 quid off me that would have taken 10 minutes in a taxi. When I pointed out the distance to him, I was the one to be told 'fcuk off!'


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    Biggest lickspittle on boardz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Biggest lickspittle on boardz


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    Rick's a good guy

    Are you shaw about that?


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    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,394 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    A combination of taxi drivers and cyclists...they couldn’t be anything but c*nts.


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »
    Are you shaw about that?




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    JupiterKid
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    Yes, they should be banned or at the very least, regulated. They are a traffic hazard.


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    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,391 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Will be banned as they are literally pedalling drugs all over town.


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