Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Pedicabs: the new taxis?

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, March 26, 2009

A mode of transportation characteristic of the Big Apple will find a home this summer in the Elm City: pedicabs.

Yale Cycling Team member Jongwook “Wookie” Kim ’09 plans to establish a pedicab business — tricycles fashioned into carriage-like cabs — in New Haven, an idea born from a class project last semester in which students were given a $50,000 hypothetical grant to establish a business within a mile of the Yale campus.

Tentatively named CaBike, Kim’s proposed business, established in partnership with a School of Management graduate and School of Medicine freshman, is...

#1 By Dave St.Germain 1:17a.m. on July 4, 2009

Just a clarification- I said that I did not expect to make a profit - I was not speaking about the new venture in New Haven. In fact, I said that, due to the population and number of people who travel to New Haven, that they had a better chance of succeeding than I do.

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