🚀 go-pugleaf

	Look, your idea sounds great to me, but then again, whenever 
anything is mentioned that furthers bicycling, I'm usually 100% 
enthused.  However, your idea is just not realistic.  I assume when you 
say "bike Taxi" you mean a Pedi-Cab, those three wheeled tricycles like 
you see at Pier 39 in San Francisco.  

	I used to be a PediCab driver, and boy, those things are SNAILS, m'man.
No one used them for transportation...hell, it was faster WALKING most of 
the time.  Think about it.  If you notice a difference when you shave 5 
pounds off your bike, think what it must be like with a 150 lb. pedicab, 
filled with 450 lbs. of passengers!  S-L-O-W.

	Santa Cruz is one of the more laid back towns I've ever been to, 
but I don't think the working class would really buy taking a Pedi-Cab 
the last 2 miles to work....that's roughly the distance of the 
Wharf-Embarcadero-Chinatown-Northbeach loop I used to do in SF, and on a 
good day, it took me half an hour to pedal it.  

	seems to me, if you were going to implement your plan, maybe just
giving away bicycles to anyone that wants them would be a better
idea...you talk of "100's of 'bike taxis'", and at a cost of $4000 each
[for the nice ones, of course... who wants to buy garbage?], that's
$400,000 for a hundred of 'em. 

	But hey, I still like the idea.  If it does work out, I'll be one 
of the first drivers to sign up.  How much does it pay?