July 10

Most taxicabs in Boston are white Crown Victorias, so you have to give these guys points for originality on a couple of choices.

They call these things rickshaws, though I always thought a rickshaw was carried through the streets, not pedaled through the streets. As a lazy pedant, however, the distinction is only enough to bug me a little.

Their other original choice is that they don't have set charges. They only request you "pay what you please," which strikes me as an utterly ridiculous way of handling things. Sure, most of the pedicabs have advertising on them, but unless the advertisers are paying more money than I would, charging for their services wouldn't seem unreasonable.

Then again, I was a liberal arts major and never was very good at math, so there you go.

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