On 2/21/20, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > in the Philippines, tricycles/pedicabs are never used for long-distance > travel > and are usually used for the "last-mile" travel typically to get to a > particular house from a main highway (or to get from the house to the > highway). These tricycles/pedicabs usually have "service areas" (often a > gated subdivision, or a village, or a close cluster of hamlets) and they > only provide transportation within that area and cannot bring you anywhere > unlike regular taxis.
Ojek (motorcycle taxis) in Indonesia are mostly used for the last kilometer trips from major highways into neighborhoods, as you mention, especially in towns and cities where there are minibuses along major roads. But you may hire them to take you across town, if you can afford paying a few dollars more than the bus fare and are in a hurry. (Hopefully it won't rain). In remote areas, where there are no public buses, it is possible to hire an ojek for a 10 or 20 kilometer ride up to a village. Sometimes the road is more of a path, only passable by 2-wheeled vehicles, so a taxicab would not be possible. - Joseph Eisenberg _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
