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Two arrested in crackdown on London rickshaws



Rickshaw drivers were arrested in a West End crackdown aimed at curbing rogue use of the vehicles.

Enforcement teams from Westminster Council and the Metropolitan Police carried out the operation on Saturday night amid complaints that some drivers jump lights, go the wrong way down one-way streets, race through traffic and stop where it is prohibited.

Two men were arrested under The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 — originally drawn up to regulate horse-drawn carriages.

Emilio Ruiz, 24, was charged under Section 6 of law which prohibits people “to stand longer than may be necessary for loading or unloading or for taking up or setting down passengers”. The economics student from Seville, Spain, could face a £200 fine.

Another man in his 20s from Romania was also held for dropping his passengers off on a pedestrian crossing. Sergeant Christian Ardron, who led the crackdown, said they were not trying to get rid of pedicabs.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/crim ... 96902.html

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George Carlin

Nice to see they are taking it seriously how about nailing a few more for jumping red lights !!

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

How many pedestrian crossings were there in 1839?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

According to wikipedia the first ones appeared in 1949 thats 110 years after the legislation quoted as being used against them

BUT it then goes on to say that belisha beacons used to mark them were introduced in 1934 so there must have been crossings before then

Right further research completed apparently the first crossing was 1868 which was a like a railway signal operated by a policeman lit by a gas lamp which blew up injuring the policeman so I assume it was 1868 still 29 years after the 1839 act

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Same as 2012, too many.

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