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You would think Britain basked in eternal Summer weather the way they promote these things as being practical......Lets hope that Hypothermia can do what Common sense cant..and that is to get these things off the road before someones killed..

Oxford is "trendy" - and full of students

leave em to it and check back in a year

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

At £100,000 a plate I doubt it.

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IDFIMH

I would be interested to see this four wheeled legislation.

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IDFIMH

£100,000 ? Not after the LC has decimated the trade...

I bow to your more local info.

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IDFIMH

Where's my "friend" Dusty these days ??

Are you saying that the requirement that a Hackney Carriage or a Private Hire vehicle do not require at least 4 wheels by law? Is it just a local condition then? It is in our conditions.

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Grandad,

The statutes don't list a minimum number of wheels, but clearly bylaws and conditions may.

In some areas two wheeled motorbikes are licensed as PH.

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IDFIMH

Wheel comes off pedicabs licensing bid

9:20am Friday 19th October 2012 in News
A pedicab A pedicab

A DECISION on whether to allow electric “pedicabs” to trade in Oxford has been put off until the New Year.

Members of the city council’s general purposes licencing committee met on Wednesday to discuss a bid by Veloform UK to get its “CityCruiser” vehicles licenced in the city.

Councillors were told the electrically-assisted tricycles, proposed as tourist transportation, could not be classed as a private hire or hackney carriage vehicle under current criteria.

The council currently has a limit on the number of taxis or “hackney carriages” it can have, and all 107 licences are taken. The pedicabs don’t qualify for a private hire licence either, as they only have three wheels.


But councillors were told Government legislation on whether there should be a third category was due next year.

Councillors agreed to wait until then to avoid wasting time.

Committee chairman Colin Cook said: “I’m not particularly keen to see officers expending a fair amount of effort going down a route which may not even come to pass.”

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/999478 ... nsing_bid/

Must be a helluva crystal ball they have there..

So they (currently) are not either private hire or hackney carriages - so they don't need a licence then ?

So why don't they just put them on without any licence, as one is not needed because you only need a licence for PH and HC vehicles and these are neither !!

not as simple as that, they cant just pick up off the street can they? if they could then they would be hc's, too be honest they are more of a novelty and a pain...