The Multi-Tentacled Reach Of The Most Insidious Lobby Around

The filthy pedicab industry not only has its dirty paws in everything, it has its dirty paws in literally everything:

While the city tries to clamp down on all the pedal-powered taxis clogging Midtown streets, the state has made a pedicab driver its tourism pitchman.

A helpful pedicab driver carting tourists down a busy Manhattan avenue is featured prominently in an “I Love New York” TV ad produced by the state — sharing equal screen time with Knick star Stephon Marbury.

“It seems problematic to promote pedicabs to tourists and then restrict them so that when tourists arrive in New York, there won’t be any pedicabs for them,” said Chad Marlow, spokesman for the NYC Pedicab Owners Association.