MAY 2009
PRIVATE HIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY 75
..MARSHALS
The chairman of Dun- fermline
HOPING TO EXTEND DUNFERMLINE TAXI PROJECT Area
Committee is hopeful the town may see taxi marshals
employed
permanently, after fund- ing for the scheme ran out last month. Teams operate at ranks on Carnegie Drive and St Margaret’s Drive while linking into the police radio system.
Joe Rosiejak hailed the initiative as a “tremen- dous success” and will be looking to the BIDS partnership for the cap- ital required to keep the stewards employed. He told the Courier and Advertiser, “It is on the agenda for the next meeting with BIDS and Dunfermline Heritage and I know the police
have spoken very high- ly of the scheme.” The initiative was only supposed to cover the Christmas period, but proved so successful it stayed in place on Sat- urday nights and the last Friday of
the
month. Funding comes from the community safety budget.
A new marshalled taxi rank is to open on East- gate
Street
MARSHALS FOR GLOUCESTER TAXI RANK of
in
Gloucester for a six- month trial period. Three marshals will police the newrank between 11pm and 5am on Fridays and Saturdays. The scheme launched on Friday, April 24. A survey will be carried out the week before the six-month trial begins, and will be repeated once it ends. The results will then be analysed to see what difference has been
made to personal safe- ty and crime during the busy evenings. Chief Inspector Emma Ackland, who oversees policing in Gloucester, told the Gloucester Cit- izen:
can drive
progress. “The initiative will hope- fully increase public safety, provide visible reassurance
reduce crime.” Councillor
Andrew Gravells, deputy leader LATE NIGHT TAXIS FOR RAWTENSTALL REVELLERS
A late night taxi scheme has been set up by a Rawtenstall nightclub in a bid to improve the safety of its customers. The Rhythm Station is operating a marshalled taxi rank outside the Newhallhey
Road the city council “This is an
excellent example of how working in partner- ship
and
responsible for housing and health, comment- ed: “Most thriving 21st Century cities like Gloucester have an active nightclub scene, and it’s important that people using them feel secure and able to get home safely. “This is a great idea which I, the city coun- cil, and the police have worked hard on, and it’s one that I hope will go down well with our city nightclubbers and taxi operators.”
venue to ensure people are transported as safe- ly as possible at the end of the evening. The scheme also aims to reduce late night anti-social behaviour around Rawtenstall. Manager of the Rhythm Station Katrina Hey- worth said the system had proven successful in places such as Burn- ley and Manchester and hoped it would have the same results in the Valley. Katrina
told Rossendale the Free
Press: “The idea is that there is a marshal out- side the venue who assists customers with the taxis; they find them
a car, tell them the price, log the registra- tion and the address where the customer is going. We are using Rawtenstall-based firm AK Taxis, so it is all their cars and they provide the marshal.” Previously, taxi firms had paid the club a fee to rank up outside of an evening, but Katrina said the decision had been made to stop this in favour of the new scheme which has been met with opposition from around 30 Valley taxi drivers who staged a late night protest out- side the club. “It is difficult because I don’t want
to take
business away from the other firms, but this is better for my customers,” said Katri- na. “I have said that the other drivers can still park on the road as long as it is at the end of the building.
“My main concern is the safety of my cus- tomers. It has been running for three weeks and already the feed- back from customers and the police has been great as people are not hanging around waiting and causing trouble.” David Lawrie, chairman of the Independent Taxi Association, said that drivers were angry that the agreement allowing themto rank up outside the Rhythm Station had ceased after being in place for four years. He said: “By allowing just one firm to rank up outside the club means there is nowhere for us to find work at night. We were protesting because we didn’t think the Rhythm Station had the right to stop us ranking there, but we have been told the land is privately owned so in actual fact they do.”
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