RANK RUMBLINGS
BLUE BADGE DRIVERS ARE BLOCKING SALISBURY TAXIS
A group of Salisbury taxi drivers is fed up with disabled blue badge holders block- ing access to the taxi rank, preventing them doing their job.
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The issue came to a head recently when a car with a blue badge parked on double yel- low lines at the start of the service road which leads to the taxi rank in New Canal.
The obstruction led to nine taxis queuing for
40 minutes and park- ing on double yellow lines while they waited to get into the rank, trapping a delivery van in the loading bay and making it difficult for buses to get past. A civil enforcement officer issued a penal- ty notice and informed police, but they said there was no one available to come out. Nigel Crook, a taxi driv- er for 16 years, told the Salisbury Journal that
the problem has been ongoing for four or five years now,
and is
always worse on Tues- days and Saturdays when the market is held.
He added: “When peo- ple go to the taxi rank and there’s no taxis because we can’t get to it they walk to anoth- er one so we are losing money. It’s very frus- trating and it’s about time something was done about it.”
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE TAXI RANK PLAN BLASTED
Residents are riled by plans for new taxi ranks in the city centre. Officers at Newcastle City Council are look- ing at creating up to 15 new late-night ranks after a request from taxi drivers.
But people living around the city centre are worried they could create disturbance by operating from 11.30pm up until 8am. Mick Ward, who lives
on Clayton Street West, told the Newcastle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle: “It is as if someone has sug- gested sites for taxi ranks based only on traffic management, and not taken any- thing else into consideration at all.” Westgate councillor Nick Forbes has been contacted by con- cerned residents. He said he thought a bet-
ter solution would be to turn the bus stops along Blackett Street into late-night taxi ranks after buses stop running.
A council spokesman said residents’ com- ments would be taken into consideration when councillors examined the propos- als, but said the final decision would be made by the director of technical services.
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Leeds city centre is being brought to a standstill by queuing taxis. Every day scores of black and white hackney carriages park up on key routes wait- ing for work. One queue often stretches along the Headrow causing chaos for buses. Leeds City Council was forced to act after the problem became serious in Boar Lane near the train station. A ‘snake’ of parked taxis waiting to pick up passengers spilled out into Boar Lane from New Station Street.
Two temporary ranks were set up in East- gate and Meadow Lane close to Asda’s headquarters, but this has only shunted the problem on.
The glut of taxis is believed to have been caused by a number of factors such as the removal of a rank at Leeds-Bradford Airport, a lack of parking near the station for taxis and a fall in customers. The council’s traffic department is trying to solve the problem but privately some in the council believe there
is no solution in the short term. Ken Gill, chairman of Streamline Telecabs which has 150 cabs, told the Leeds Weekly: “It’s very quiet this time of year. A lot of the business comes off the station. There’s no easy answer to get cars into the station. We are using the Headrow as a feeder rank with our own mar- shals with radios. Unfortunately there are 537 taxis in Leeds and only a certain number of rank spaces.”
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