[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:amenity=motorcycle_taxi

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:13 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh, here in Indonesia you can find motorcycle taxis (ojek) everywhere,
> including in all the towns where bicycle rickshaws / pedicabs operate.
>
> For example, all of the markets in my town have a pangkalan ojek
> (motorcycle taxi stand) and a separate pangkalan becak (pedicab
> stand), usually near the main entrance.
>
> I prefer the pedicabs when I have luggage, since there is a nice wide
> bench which can carry more cargo than can fit on a motorcycle, and
> they are quiet and slower. But the motorcycles are faster, so if you
> are in a hurry or have a long trip, they are the better choice.
>

Hmmm. It seems that your ojeks are a different sort of public
transportation to our tricycles/pedicabs in the Philippines. If I
understand your description correctly, ojeks seem to be like regular
4-wheeled taxis in many respects except for the use of motorcycles, but in
the Philippines, tricycles/pedicabs are never used for long-distance travel
and are usually used for the "last-mile" travel typically to get to a
particular house from a main highway (or to get from the house to the
highway). These tricycles/pedicabs usually have "service areas" (often a
gated subdivision, or a village, or a close cluster of hamlets) and they
only provide transportation within that area and cannot bring you anywhere
unlike regular taxis.
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