Rickshaw drivers ride a rocky road

Unregulated death traps or handy urban transport? Claire Droney hears from both sides.

Rickshaw drivers ride a rocky road

THEY’RE unregulated and they’re taking our business, shout the taxi-drivers. They’re dangerous and a menace on the road, say the city councillors.

Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme on RTÉ 1 lit up recently as a woman spoke about her daughter’s rickshaw accident abroad, and Dublin Wives star Danielle Meagher re-lived a rickshaw accident last year from which she emerged with a broken jaw, sprained hand, concussion, vertigo and tinnitus, and with her front teeth pushed through her lip.

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