François,
Have you personally hired a motorcycle before, or is the assumption that
this is the same service based on theory rather than experience?
The proposal gave several reasons that using amenity=taxi was not a good
idea, including these:
"Motorcyles have different abilities.
"In contrast to a family or group which needs a 4 to 6 seat taxicab, single
travelers may strongly prefer to hire motorcycles when available, due to
their lower cost and ability to fit through smaller spaces in congested
cities and rural areas with narrow roads and paths.
"Motorcar taxicabs with 4 wheels in 2 tracks cannot access highway=path
features and narrow roads, but motorcycles may be permitted and feasible
due to their narrow width and single track."
So a different tag is proposed to avoid confusion and more precisely tag
these features."
A taxi can carry 4 or more passengers, with their luggage or shopping, and
they are enclosed, heated and perhaps air conditioned, and protected from
weather. When you are traveling with your elderly mother-in-law and her
luggage in a rainstor, a taxicab stand and an "ojek" queue are quite
different amenities.
However, taxis use much more gasoline and the vehicle is more expensive to
buy and maintain, so the price is higher than a motorcycle. Since they are
1.5 meters wider, they cannot fit though spaces less than 2.5 meters wide,
which is a big disadvantage in cities in Asia with narrow streets or high
traffic. Often only a motorcycle can get through traffic jams and narrow
streets. In rural areas, only motorcycles are used to access many mountain
villages, where 4-wheel-drive motorcars would be hard-pressed to travel.
Equating these features would be like using one tag to for moving truck
rental ("U-Haul" in the USA), motorcycle rental, bike rental, and
kick-scooter rental.
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