Showing posts with label Cycle Rickshaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cycle Rickshaw. Show all posts

Apr 9, 2011

Cycle Rickshaw in Chennai

You don't see many Cycle Rickshaws these days in Chennai.  This is the halfway point between the hand-pulled rickshaws and the autorickshaws.  A lifetime behind the wheel pulling this weight makes a Cycle Rickshaw driver's life much shorter.  Many of them die from tuberculosis at young age.  Cycle rickshaws and hand-pulled rickshaws are banned in many places in India but you still find them in certain pockets in Chennai.