Rickshaws are coming back thanks to a few local entrepreneurs.
Excerpt from the
Michigan Citizen:
Thanks to two local entrepreneurs, potential sightseers can now add the rickshaw to the list of ways to traverse between downtown Detroit landmarks.
Terry L. Walker and Michael Rosemond began Detroit Rickshaw with the idea of broadening the city's transportation profile. They met at a 2004 city council hearing while preparing separate proposals to be the first rickshaw operators in the city. They quickly realized that their interest in rickshaws converged at a point which would benefit a partnership.
"We said, let's do it like other smart folks and do it together," Rosemond told the Michigan Citizen. "We both had done our research."
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