{"id":4754,"date":"2011-07-11T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:56:00","slug":"struth-gps-to-guide-delhis-rickshaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/07\/struth-gps-to-guide-delhis-rickshaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! GPS to Guide Delhi&#8217;s Rickshaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--5po-B7uDFk\/ThpKPmgRL8I\/AAAAAAAAPL0\/ypKSnE0uJY0\/s1600\/India%2Bmotorised%2Brickshaw-789388.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--5po-B7uDFk\/ThpKPmgRL8I\/AAAAAAAAPL0\/ypKSnE0uJY0\/s320\/India%2Bmotorised%2Brickshaw-789388.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627892316247240642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that drivers are up in arms, but passengers are delighted, with a decision by authorities in New Delhi to order that satellite navigation devices be fitted to all of the city&#8217;s 55,000 motorised rickshaws.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s being done to reduce the number of disputes over whether drivers have taken the shortest route possible to their destinations, with the first twenty-five GPS devices being installed on a trial basis this week, and laws coming into force at the end of July making it mandatory for all rickshaws to be similarly fitted.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers, in particular Indians from out of town and tourists, have complained for years about being taken on unnecessarily circuitous routes, so the new devices will be connected to a government monitoring centre in which officials will be able to record routes taken by the rickshaw drivers in the event of a dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite navigation systems will also come with a panic button for female passengers to instantly alert police if they feel threatened or harassed.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers who say they can&#8217;t afford to buy one of the GPS devices will be able to rent them from the government for a small monthly fee.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden; display: inline;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that drivers are up in arms, but passengers are delighted, with a decision by authorities in New Delhi to order that satellite navigation devices be fitted to all of the city&#8217;s 55,000 motorised rickshaws. It&#8217;s being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-david-ellis","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}