Today the pedicab has become a charastistic item for scenic tours, squeezing visitors through the small hutungs surrounding the Imperial Palace.

今天的三轮车成了风俗游的特色工具，拉着客人在故宫周围的小胡同里穿行。

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The pedicab is old Beijing's taxi. In the past for delivering coal or food, getting old people to see a doctor, or sending kinds off to school, it was hard for a Beijinger to escape it.

三轮车是老北京的出租车，以前送煤、送菜、送老人看病、送孩子上学，北京人很难离开他。

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He has become the most popular pedicab driver in Kaifeng.

他已经成为开封最受欢迎的三轮车手。

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The pedicab drivers, who still tout for business outside hotels with fleets of Mercedes, occupy a similar niche market in Asian capitals today.

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But Friedl Schroeder who runs the BugBugs pedicab company said pedicabs needed licensing, not banning.

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But one pedicab operator described the call a "witch-hunt".

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