ALTERNATIVE TAXIS
appeared on the streets in 1897. The self-propelled vehicle will be one of the high- lights of Climate Changing Stories, a new exhibition at Lon- don’s
Science
Museum. In a city with more than 11,000 horse- drawn cabs, catching a lift in the Bersey would have been quite a novelty. Of the 75 cars that were in operation, it is believed the Science Museum’s example is the only one remain- ing. Picture 2 August page 56. Glasgow has effective- ly banned rickshaws. The city has turned down more than 20 licences for the pedi- cabs over the last 18 months - after a soldier on leave was killed in one in Edinburgh. Council sources have stressed there were no test certificates avail- able for rickshaws and they are now looking for a manufacturer willing to surrender one of their vehicles for crash tests. An official council spokesman told the Glasgow
ing whether a rick- shaw is safe or not - or whether a rider, or “wallah”, knows the rules of the road. So they have been turning down applica- tions from would-be wallahs for street trad- er licences. A source said: “You don’t need to look very far to find some horrif- ic accidents involving rickshaws. Entrepreneur Owen O’Neill runs one of a couple of firms trying to develop the rick- shaw
trade in
Glasgow. He said: “I can’t get my head around why Glasgow City Council is stunt- ing healthy youth employment and hin- dering
a 3 green
enterprise, especially in the middle of a recession.” Jack Ferguson, of Glasgow Taxis, said: “We don’t see why rickshaw drivers and their
vehicles Evening
Times: “If we are going to license a vehicle, it needs to be safe. We are trying to give the trade time to get a vehicle tested or demonstrate that they can meet safety stan- dards.” Council bosses want to see some kind of safety regime imposed on the Asian pedal taxis, which are boom- ing in the capital and other European holi- day destinations. But officials admit there isn’t a national framework for decid-
shouldn’t undergo the same scrutiny as any- body else carrying paying passengers in Glasgow.” Picture 3 June page 16. In September we reported on a suc- cessful
first year
plying a profitable trade in the waters of the Fal Estuary, a mar- itime taxi service is taking on a new boat to double the size of its fleet. Falmouth Water Taxi was first launched last April by local entrepre- neur Carl Beardmore, providing a flexible route to anywhere on the river from Fal- mouth right up to Truro. Since its inception the service has grown to a point where it oper-
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ates seven days a week and transports up to 1,200 people a month. Now Carl is introducing a new ves- sel to help meet this growing demand. Pic- ture 4 September page 54. The most novel story of the year ran in July where a moon taxi service is looking to be
launched for passen- gers with the odd hundred
million
pounds to spare for a taxi ride to the moon by 2015! According to ZDNet UK,
Excalibur Almaz has lifted the lid on its plan to transport paying passengers and cargo to the moon within the
British-based
next three years. The Isle of Man space exploration company has a fleet of six vin- tage Russian-built spacecraft, which it wants to use to take people into deep space - if they can put up the £100m fare. “Excalibur Almaz is willing and able to send crewed missions deep-
er into space than would be possible aboard any other spacecraft in existence today,”
com-
pany founder Art Dula said. “Our fleet of space stations and re- entry capsules enable us to safely fly mem- bers of the public to the moon by 2015.” Picture 5 July page 18.
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