Yes, they're much greener than normal taxis. And yes, they're much easier to flag down at 3am than a black cab. But that's about a far as the list of plus points goes.\n\nThey cost about three times the price of a black cab, and even though there is a certain amount of wiggle room for haggling over the price, it will definitely end up costing you so much you'll probably wish you'd just walked it in the first place - 6 inch heels or not. \n\nThey're pretty much open-air too, despite their little flimsy roofs, so on those (many) Edinburgh nights when there's horizontal sleet falling when you come out of a club, you can expect a face-full of it all the way home. Which will take you three times as long as it would in a normal taxi, because the poor student who has to cycle the thing understandably doesn't have the same power in his legs as a car's engine.\n\nTheir one saving grace? They're great for that one person on any night out who always peaks far too early and needs to go home by midnight. And when I say \""peaks\"" I mean they've puked all over their own shoes and no black cabs will take them, and no-one's offering to walk them home. That's when these pedicabs are a welcome sight, but it's about the only time.