NEW YORK, NY March 01, 2007 —Pedicabs will be subject to some new rules following a city council vote yesterday. There will now be no more than 325 of the bicycle taxis on the streets. Pedicab owners are threatening to sue. WNYC's Richard Hake reports.

REPORTER: As a group of pedicab drivers and owners chanted on the steps of City Hall, lawmakers were passing the bill they say doesn't make sense. Drivers like, Mark Davis, say the Council's argument of the cabs being reckless and unsafe is wrong.

DAVIS: Everyone seems to think that pedicabs are dangerous. We have an amazing safety record. In over ten years in operating in the city not one passenger in my knowledge has ever been hospitalized.

REPORTER: Other parts of the law the drivers say are unfair include: banning them from bridges and bike lanes and from specific streets at the police department's discretion. Some of the regulations were put into the bill at the last minute after public hearings. George Bliss, who brought the first pedicabs to New York 11 years ago, says it's all about politics.

BLISS: We are like a child being beaten up like a child in the corner of the playground by the yellow cab lobby through the speaker of the City Council. That is what happening.

REPORTER: Council Speaker Christine Quinn says every other transportation mode is regulated and so should the pedi-cab industry. For WNYC, I'm Richard Hake.