"Water cabs rescue Turkish businessmen in a rush in Istanbul
ISTANBUL (AFP) — Although they are newcomers to the transport sector in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul, water cabs have proven a big hit, especially with the upper classes, since they began ferrying on the Bosphorus Strait two months ago.
Until the water cabs, the 13 million inhabitants of Istanbul thought they had tried everything -- from buses and trams to ferries and funicular railways -- in a bid to escape the huge traffic jams in the sprawling city which has only two bridges connecting its European and Asian sides."
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