{"id":409845,"date":"2025-09-09T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:25:13","slug":"london-pedicabs-to-face-new-rules-to-protect-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409845\/","title":{"rendered":"London pedicabs to face new rules to &#8216;protect customers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A proposed list of new rules for pedicab drivers in London has been released by Transport for London (TfL), <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk\/pedicab-regulations\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">after a public consultation<\/b>, external<\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> showed &#8220;overwhelming support&#8221; for regulation of the industry, it said. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TfL said the new rules, if approved, would protect customers from &#8220;extortionate over-charging&#8221; and &#8220;remove dangerous, unsafe vehicles from the streets&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London Pedicab Welfare Association (LPWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8j10k3wkz8o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said it welcomed regulations<\/a>, so long as they were fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rules, now subject to a second consultation period, include criminal record checks for drivers, and fares to be based on journey time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposed list of new rules for pedicab drivers in London has been released by Transport for London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-409845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173151588092396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}