Bicitaxi outside CDR

The bicitaxi is a bicycle-rickshaw sort of contraption that is the cheapest people hauler in Havana. They have been pretty much relegated to transportation for locals in the peso economy. The past two times I have ridden in a bicitaxi, we have been stopped by the police and the driver was issued a citation for hauling tourists. The goal is to push the tourists into a more expensive form of transport. This is one of the oft cited "CDRs". Nico Lopez was a printer, a black man, who was a revolutionary. This photo was made from the window in my room across the street. I never saw anything going on in the CDR except frequent games of dominos. It was interesting that once we had a group of students living in the house, a policeman was at each end of our block for the first week we were there. They were quite helpful with directions and seemed to enjoy talking to the female students. Since all were well behaved young people, there were no problems.