AN unusual sight will greet a city's visitors this summer - a pedal-powered taxi.
The sustainable transport service, similar to a rickshaw, can carry up to three people. The first vehicle, which took to the roads of Newcastle yesterday, will take tourists and office workers along a mile-long route along the city's Quayside.
The city is following London, York and Oxford in introducing a pilot service, which will be free for the first season.
It is using its army of young volunteer city helpers, known as the Newcastle Knights, to pedal the first pedicabs.
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