Is it not about time that London bans those horrid cycle taxi rickshaw things or whatever they are called. They are nothing but a complete and utter nuisance. They serve no benefit.
These cycle taxis gather around all the busy tourist spots and cause a complete and utter nuisance. I am so fed up of these things. Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Green Park, Westminster, Houses Of Parliament, Harrods, Selfridges, Oxford Street, Regent Street, Covent Garden, Marble Arch, etc, seem to be their main spots. Basically wherever you get lots of tourists. The worst is the Summer time and around Christmas time. So basically tourist season. It gets a little better in the Winter time with cold weather when less of them are out.
They clog up the pavements and cause severe overcrowding. They gather around in groups and completely block the pavement. I have seen dozens and dozens of instances where you can barely move due to all of these things blocking the pavement. Go somewhere like Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square in the Summer and you can sometimes get more than ten or fifteen of them all in one place on the pavement. It makes it very hard to walk in what is an already busy packed area when they are all parked up on the pavement. They are responsible for so much pedestrian congestion in these busy areas.
They also blast out music constantly and cause noise pollution. The thing that makes it worse is that the cycle taxis gather in groups and you get five or ten of them next to each other on the pavement all blasting out different songs. So you can not even properly hear the song they are playing as all their music is playing at once. Why blast out music when you can not even properly hear it because you are all playing it at once. It causes utter noise pollution and sounds horrible. Nobody wants to listen to that while walking around the London streets every time you pass by one of these things. It is so unpleasant.
There is nothing good about these things. You never hear any positive reviews about them. If you look online all you see is tourists complaining about being ripped off. They make black cabs look cheap. I have heard stories of people being charged £50 to go from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus and £100 to go from Leicester Square to Green Park and other crazy ridiculous prices. Nobody goes on them a second time. You never hear anything positive about these things.
Why has the council in London not done anything about these. Surely they could ban them. They have introduced dozens of regulations for proper taxis so why do they just allow these things to continue operating and doing as they please.
These cycle taxis gather around all the busy tourist spots and cause a complete and utter nuisance. I am so fed up of these things. Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Green Park, Westminster, Houses Of Parliament, Harrods, Selfridges, Oxford Street, Regent Street, Covent Garden, Marble Arch, etc, seem to be their main spots. Basically wherever you get lots of tourists. The worst is the Summer time and around Christmas time. So basically tourist season. It gets a little better in the Winter time with cold weather when less of them are out.
They clog up the pavements and cause severe overcrowding. They gather around in groups and completely block the pavement. I have seen dozens and dozens of instances where you can barely move due to all of these things blocking the pavement. Go somewhere like Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square in the Summer and you can sometimes get more than ten or fifteen of them all in one place on the pavement. It makes it very hard to walk in what is an already busy packed area when they are all parked up on the pavement. They are responsible for so much pedestrian congestion in these busy areas.
They also blast out music constantly and cause noise pollution. The thing that makes it worse is that the cycle taxis gather in groups and you get five or ten of them next to each other on the pavement all blasting out different songs. So you can not even properly hear the song they are playing as all their music is playing at once. Why blast out music when you can not even properly hear it because you are all playing it at once. It causes utter noise pollution and sounds horrible. Nobody wants to listen to that while walking around the London streets every time you pass by one of these things. It is so unpleasant.
There is nothing good about these things. You never hear any positive reviews about them. If you look online all you see is tourists complaining about being ripped off. They make black cabs look cheap. I have heard stories of people being charged £50 to go from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus and £100 to go from Leicester Square to Green Park and other crazy ridiculous prices. Nobody goes on them a second time. You never hear anything positive about these things.
Why has the council in London not done anything about these. Surely they could ban them. They have introduced dozens of regulations for proper taxis so why do they just allow these things to continue operating and doing as they please.
