{"id":1729,"date":"2008-02-28T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/auto-rickshaw\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T06:31:50","slug":"auto-rickshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/auto-rickshaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Rickshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.horace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/800px-bangalorerick.jpg\" title=\"Auto Richshaw\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.horace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/800px-bangalorerick.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"Auto Richshaw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auto rickshaw is the most common transportation in Bangalore.\u00a0 It is kinda like the taxi of India.\u00a0 You can hire one by raising your hand on street corners or find a richshaw stop in front of shopping malls.\u00a0 The auto richshaw drives like a motorcycle, except it has two wheels and a passenager cabinet at the back.\u00a0 They runs on small 2 stroke engine, making the tuc- tuc noise.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why auto rickshaw is also called tuctucs.\u00a0 The auto rickshaw has no door nor windows.\u00a0 The engine probably runs on dirty gas, so you can smell the exhaust when you riding on it.\u00a0 I guess the auto rickshaw is not very eco-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>On my first week in Banaglore, I tried to avoid taking the auto rickshaw.\u00a0 It seems not very safe and kinda shabby.\u00a0 However there is no restaurant serves real food around the guest house.\u00a0 So,\u00a0I overcome my reluctance and start taking\u00a0auto rickshaw this week.\u00a0 After the work, the company driver just drop me off at the restaurant of the night, then I ride the auto rickshaw back to the guest house after dinner.<\/p>\n<p>All auto rickshaw comes with a fare meter but\u00a0it is rarely use.\u00a0 Usually you negotiate the price before hopping into it.\u00a0 It costs about CAD$2.5 for a 20 minutes ride from downtown Bangalore back to the guest house.\u00a0 The rickshaw driver\u00a0probably over charged me by almost doubling the fare.\u00a0 Do I really care?\u00a0 Probably not, I don&#8217;t really want to bargain on the street for merely $1.\u00a0 I rather pay the premium and let the driver take me to my destination with no fuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auto rickshaw is the most common transportation in Bangalore.\u00a0 It is kinda like the taxi of India.\u00a0 You can hire one by raising your hand on street corners or find a richshaw stop in front of shopping malls.\u00a0 The auto richshaw drives like a motorcycle, except it has two wheels and a passenager cabinet at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/auto-rickshaw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Auto Rickshaw<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"lc_iscn_info":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,246],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-_scribble","tag-india","tag-tuk-tuk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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