No motorized rickshaws

No motorized rickshaws

PONOROGO, East Java: The Ponorogo City Land Transportation
Agency has rejected the presence of motorized rickshaws, becak,
saying that there is no ordinance regulating them yet.

"All motorized vehicles must be registered, including the
motorized becak,," the local Agency chief, Zaenal Sjamsul
Bachtiar, said here on Sunday.

"However neither the police nor we know how to categorize them
yet," he added.

The quiet East Java city has seen the emergence of these
motorized rickshaws in recent weeks. It is believed there are a
total of 10 such vehicles.

Among the difficulties, according Zaenal, is that as a
registered motorized vehicle there has to be a company
accountable for its construction and to provide such requirements
as chasms numbers and engine designs.

Antara also reported that another immediate problem would then
be that the drivers of these vehicles would be required to have a
drivers' license.(mds)