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Letter: Three wheeled scooters and 'tuk tuks' - traffic system challenges

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Published On:Friday, March 19, 2010

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Traffic problems in Nassau are on everyone's lips including our Family Island friends. So who in their right mind allowed "tuk tuks" and three wheeled scooters to be licensed to drive at 10-15 mph on our clogged thoroughfares? Not only are they extremely dangerous, having no safety equipment, poor steering, no seatbelts (even though it is the law), they are often rented to intoxicated and/or young drivers with no experience who dangerously weave in and out of cars and trucks wearing no helmet and no shoes!

My question is: When they run into my newly painted car, who will pay for that? Because I can bet you the driver will be gone in a day and the vendors who rent them will not be responsible! I have already paid over $200 to fix my side mirror - hit by a motor cyclist driving in no particular lane!

Government, please save us from ourselves and from you! Stop licensing dangerous vehicles on our roads, including those with ridiculous exhaust fumes that create a visual obstacle!

Honestly, if I did not know I lived in a third world country, I do now!

APPLETON

Nassau,

January 25, 2010.

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