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"It would be good if the industry was regulated because only the good guys would get licences," said Tony, a Swiss-educated English rickshaw rider of seven years.
Earlier this month the police secured the jailing of a 21-year-old rickshaw rider, Juris Briedis, after he had breached a criminal behaviour order.
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At a table at the end of a narrow room on 61st Street, it's just comfort food for rickshaw riders.
Rickshaw riders, rather than the multibillion pound app-hailing minicab firm Uber, were among the main targets of new regulations proposed for London's private hire industry this week.
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One of a hundred or so rickshaw riders who ply their trade around the Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin West, he jokes that for once the notoriously slow Indian legal system has made him happy.
Transport for London (TfL), which was widely expected to clamp down on Uber in its latest proposals for London's private hire industry, turned its firepower instead on the 1,500 or so rickshaw riders who operate in and around central London, promising to bring in regulations for an as yet unregulated business.
Tony (not his real name), one of only a handful of rickshaw riders working in central London on a cold January afternoon, said he would feel bad if he charged a passenger £20-30 for a trip, but claimed others charged £10 a minute.
I remember growing up and spending summers in Atlantic City where the familiar cry of the rickshaw riders "Watch the Chair, Watch the Chair," was as much a part of the soundscape as the seagull's cries.
At Chawri Bazar, in old Delhi, bicycle-rickshaw riders tout for business, while stray cows lounge around in the middle of the roundabout.
Their rickshaw driver was Polish.
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