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Rickshaws likely to be banned

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    #2
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,613 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Ah jaysis, where will people get their drugs? This is not good for jobs or the economy


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    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,825 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    But this is such a necessary service! What will drunks do to fly down Grafton street shouting and waving at strangers like spas? And where will people buy their drugs? And who will take up half the road and run red lights and cause traffic jams?

    I know we can get all these things from other places but it was so convenient to have them all supplied by one fantastic service. I don't think Shane Ross has thought this through.


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    #4
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,613 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    One thing I would say about them though is that they do serve a function. After a gig in the Point 10,000+ people come streaming outside but there is never a taxi in sight. A taxi driver told me this is because it is not worth their while going out to the Point empty to pick up a short 10 euro fare into the city centre. As a result there is always stacks of rickshaws outside the Point to pick up the slack for those who dont want to walk the 2km or get on a jammed Luas.

    All that said I do find them annoying and a bit tacky tbh. But I dont think they should be banned. Taxed, licensed and insured but not banned.


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    #5
    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Will they give them up?

    I'm let down.

    We'll all have to run around after they've deserted us.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,481 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Presumably if they are banned they can be confiscated.


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    #7
    Dr Brown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭Dr Brown


    There are already illegal under the current law.


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    #8
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Thought people on boards hate others doing nixers and not paying tax? What you think rickshaw drivers are ;)


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    #9
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,722 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Now now, can't have people undercutting protected businesses with low cost solutions. Free market ideas have no place in a socialist society.


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    #10
    Dr Brown
    Registered Users Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭Dr Brown


    Overheal wrote: »
    Now now, can't have people undercutting protected businesses with low cost solutions. Free market ideas have no place in a socialist society.




    They are unregulated death traps its a miracle no one has been killed on one yet.





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    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭368100


    greencap wrote: »
    Will they give them up?

    I'm let down.

    We'll all have to run around after they've deserted us.

    Wrong rick


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,722 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Dr Brown wrote: »
    They are unregulated death traps its a miracle no one has been killed on one yet.

    Because drunks are stupid? These work in plenty of places where this isn’t a problem. Sorry that’s not true in Dublin, I guess.


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    #13
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,452 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    “But muh disruption!”

    Good riddance.


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    #14
    Accidentally
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭Accidentally


    Expect sudden surge in ice cream vans


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    #15
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    368100 wrote: »
    Wrong rick

    Aw Morty!


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Accidentally wrote: »
    Expect sudden surge in ice cream vans trikes
    FYP


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    #17
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    If they're anything like the ones in London there's nothing low cost about them. They rip off countless tourists with fares far higher than even black taxis would charge, total gougers.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,243 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    How rickshaws are allowed yet Uber is illegal in this country is beyond me.


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    #19
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    I'd prefer to see a ban on sulkeys on the roads. But that's not on Lord Ross's agenda, no piebalds in his area, I'm sure.


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    #20
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    I'd prefer to see a ban on sulkeys on the roads. But that's not on Lord Ross's agenda, no piebalds in his area, I'm sure.
    Oh say, only thououghbreds, dear boy.


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    Vladimir Poontang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Vladimir Poontang


    Ban sulkys first.


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    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,754 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    How rickshaws are allowed yet Uber is illegal in this country is beyond me.
    they are tonnes of differences


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