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Protesting pedicab drivers struck and killed by train in TianjinPosted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM
 Beijing Times December 30, 2008 Four men were fatally struck by a bullet train traveling at full speed on Monday in Jinghai County, Tianjin. Five others were injured. According to today's Beijing Times, the dead were local auto pedicab taxi drivers who were protesting against the Jinghai county government which had banned the the taxis from operating starting July. It is also reported that the drivers were attempting to block the railway when the D38 train departed from Beijing for Jinan arrived and struck them. The five injured received scratches from the passing train but their conditions were reported as non-life threatening.  The Beijing News December 30, 2009 The local authorities have declared the pedicab taxis as illegal, stating that these taxis pose a safety hazard to passengers and have disturbed market order of the public transport sector. The big photo on the front page illustrates a successful police rescue effort in which a man who held a masseuse hostage at knife point yesterday in Chuangchun, Jilin Province was shot dead. Another train accident took place around 10 o'clock yesterday in Beijing: a woman who apparently was trying to cross the railway was struck and killed by a coming train. The cover photo of today's Beijing News shows that after the accident, a person scales a railway fence near the accident site to save himself a few minutes' walk. Links and Sources
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Comments on Protesting pedicab drivers struck and killed by train in Tianjin
When you can't rely on rule of law to solve your grievances, you rely on extreme tactics and hope for the best later on, in the buddhist sense.
Just hope they don't come back Chinese again in their next life!
"these taxis pose a safety hazard to passengers and have disturbed market order of the public transport sector. "
guess which one is more important than the other.
i've never been to tianjin but if they're like pedicabs anywhere else the way to lesson the so-called safety hazard is for traffic police to actually do their jobs. that, and poverty is no excuse for not following the law.