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Laid off WV coal miner starts bike taxi service
CHARLESTON -- It took a layoff notice to convince Tom Burgess to follow up on a business plan he'd been thinking about for the past decade.
Now, the former coal miner spends his days cruising the streets of Charleston looking for fares.
Burgess and his wife, Alice, started a bicycle taxi service in West Virginia's capital earlier this month as a way to earn a living after he was laid off last year from a Kanawha County surface mine.
Burgess had been thinking about the business for a while, but never had the time to devote to getting it off the ground.
The couple says their plan isn't to compete with Charleston's existing transportation services. Their taxi service is to provide some entertainment.
