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kermit2482

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:48 pm

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Skull wrote:

kermit2482 wrote:

Skull wrote:

Every thing is a death trap under the wrong conditions even a taxi/ph vehicle.

Never a truer word spoken, aha at last someone on here that realises its not so much the vehicle its the operator and the way its operated, i agree 100% with you on this one any vehicle could be a death trap in the wrong hands!!!!!!!!!! I take my hat off to you Skull with that post

Thanks for that :wink:

I just hope that bus drivers don’t start a campaign to have any vehicle of fewer than 12 seats to be put off the road because they are not as safe as buses.

:lol:

Fair one

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TornCasualty

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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:35 pm

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Skull wrote:

TornCasualty wrote:

Skull wrote:

TornCasualty wrote:

Skull wrote:

there’s nothing to support your claim that they are all death traps. .

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Skull you've got a short memory for someone from Edinburgh. You forgotten the girl in the rickshaw who ended up with a broken neck after her scarf got entangled in the backwheels of one in Regent Road a few years back when they first appeared :sad:

And as for cheaper - yeah £4.00 a head x 3 for the half mile journey from one end of George St to the other - if I could get half of that I'd be a very rich man :roll:

I don’t get your point here TC; the statement I made has nothing to do with your answer. Try reading my post again from a less personal point of view and you might actually understand what I have written.

BTW, I don't support rickshaws. I merely try and tell it how it is and not how others may want it to be.

And I was pointing out that there WAS something there to support the death trap argument :-|

No, once again SAFETY is relative....

Every thing is a death trap under the wrong conditions even a taxi/ph vehicle.

I think your real point is that they are competing with you for work and that is your real concern. It has nothing to do with the safety of their passangers....

Wrong again - they are no competition - but as you will only ever see this issue as a personal weapon against me - go back to you're own insane little world and believe what you want - I don't actually care about your opinion :-|

You state that Rickshaws are “no competition” but fail to tell us what mode of transport the traveling public would use if there were no Rickshaws….

You also state in your previous post:

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“And as for cheaper - yeah £4.00 a head x 3 for the half mile journey from one end of George St to the other - if I could get half of that I'd be a very rich man”

So why not explain to us all; how Rickshaws are not competing for your work while charging twice as much to carry passengers “from one end of George St to the other”, a “half mile journey”, no less?

Come on TC; let’s see if you can say something without making a complete fool of yourself. It’s no wonder you don’t want people to know who you really are. :roll:

BTW, this is the point TC runs away to hide hoping that everyone forgets about how stupid his comments are.

Me run away and hide - cannae have ye thinking that now T1tty T :lol:

As I said the rickshaws aren't competition - look at their customers - drunk girls on hen nights, drunks blokes on stag nights, drunk blokes trying to impress a girl by getting her in the back of one and drunk blokes trying to impress their mates by having a laugh. No one uses them as a straightforward means of getting from A to B. :roll:

Like you Double T, they are nothing more than a simple source of amusement, and not serious competition.

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Skull

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:57 pm

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Oh I see, now they are

TC writes:

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“not serious competition”

… but they are competition.

At lest that’s an improvement on

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“they are no competition”….

Just think TC, if you could get

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“£4.00 a head x 3 for the half mile journey from one end of George St to the other”

you could be

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"a very rich man"

How long will it be before motorised rickshaws hit the streets of Edinburgh I wonder…. :roll:

Oh and what about the Ph, I don’t suppose you see them as "serious competition" either? :roll:

Then there are the ever expanding bus and Taxi-buses services…. Oh and lets not forget the Taxis and Ph working Edinburgh from its surrounding areas.

Now what do you think would happen if we added-up all of this

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“not serious competition"

together.

Thats right TC, you would have a lot of serious competition :lol: :lol:

BTW TC, I think your time would be better spent on fasties. The standard of the posts there are more in keeping with your level of inteligence.

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TornCasualty

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:01 pm

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I note with all this "banter" :twisted:

that as ever you went on the personal attack and carefully sidestepped the issue at the top of this thread, which was that rickshaws are dangerous. :roll:

So what do you have to say on that issue - both the vehicles and the licensing regime (or lack there of) that applies to them :-|

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Skull

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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 1:05 pm

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TornCasualty wrote:

I note with all this "banter" :twisted:

that as ever you went on the personal attack and carefully sidestepped the issue at the top of this thread, which was that rickshaws are dangerous. :roll:

So what do you have to say on that issue - both the vehicles and the licensing regime (or lack there of) that applies to them :-|

Did you miss this TC?

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Safety is relative. You might claim that rickshaws are unsafe and they might not be a safe as other forms of transport but there’s nothing to support your claim that they are all death traps. While I accept you don’t stand much of a chance in an accident it doesn’t mean you are going to have one.

The licensing regime won’t stop them in most areas but in Edinburgh there is a will to protect their new Tram system. Then again if every other cities allows access to these vehicles then you could be fecked.

I don’t see how you can stop them on safety issues. As I have said before; safety is relative. They would simply point to other modes of transport as I have done.

You would end up having to ban the hiring of motor bikes, mopeds, bicycles, smart cars and the like. The fact that you can have an experienced driver operating these vehicles actually adds to their safety.

No TC, I think motorised rickshaws are just around the corner. The peddle type was just a means of paving the way into Edinburgh and other Cities.

BTW, If they hit the streets of Edinburgh any time soon you will know all about how serious the competition is.

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Skull

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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:54 pm

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TC must be on holiday again :lol:

Can't think why :lol:

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