From: Paul Barter <geobpa at nus.edu.sg> To: "'sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org'" <sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org> Subject: [sustran] fwd: Delhi fuel change hurts rickshaw drivers Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:57:23 +0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
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The Straits Times JULY 30, 2001
Delhi fuel change hurts rickshaw drivers
Many owners complain that although the Indian government wants them to switch to natural gas for cleaner air, there are just too few filling stations
By Nirmal Ghosh INDIA CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI - A. K. Massey, 55, perspiring on a sultry monsoon afternoon on a polluted Delhi street, pushes his auto rickshaw a few feet forward in the long line of vehicles inching towards a compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station.
For Mr Massey and his compatriots, four-hour waits every other day in queues has become a fact of life, and it costs them between 100 and 400 rupees (S$4 and S$16) a day.
They are paying the price for a cleaner city, but they blame the government squarely for the pain it entails.
New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, is sweating under a Supreme Court-imposed deadline for the conversion of its entire public transport fleet to CNG fuel by September.
see http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,1870,60632,00.html for the full story
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