The Post’s lively column about pedicabs unfairly misinterprets both the spirit of, and the reason for, the pedicab legislation (“Killing Off Pedicabs,” Sept. 18).

Even something that is potentially positive can, and did, create problems if wholly and completely unregulated.

Pedicabs have proliferated intensively in recent years, often riding onto sidewalks in front of theaters, causing serious pedestrian and vehicular hazards and adding to Times Square’s already serious congestion problem.

It has become a major issue for the theater community, which is the economic engine of the neighborhood.

The council bill is a reasonable measure responding to real problems that, until now, simply were not being addressed.

Tim Tompkins

Times Square Alliance

Manhattan