Hear about pedicab crossing the road?

Hear about pedicab crossing the road?

BOGOR: Thousands of pedicab drivers staged a rally on Wednesday
at the Bogor legislative council to ask the administration to
revoke its new policy banning them from crossing the Paledang to
Pasar Anyar road.

After convening a special meeting to discuss the issue, the
legislative council decided to reject the drivers' demand, saying
that it would worsen traffic congestion in the area.

But the drivers insisted that the congestion was not their
fault but was rather due to the fact that many public
transportation vehicles stopped in the area to pick up
passengers.

The enraged drivers then ran amok, pelting the building with
stones and clashing with the police and legislative council
security guards.

The doughty legislators quickly had second thoughts and
hastily convened another meeting with the transportation agency.
The result? The pedicabs are now allowed the cross the road
again.

"It's too much trouble if we're not allowed to cross the road
and have to make a U-turn at Pasar Mawar," said Bambang Riyadi,
one of the drivers, adding, "For poor drivers like us who only
take in Rp 3,000 per day, it would kill us if we had to drive all
the way up that long road."--JP