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We get it all the time don't we, “workers and members of the public parking their vehicles on a Taxi rank”.

Decriminalisation of Taxi rank parking has not been a good idea in most Towns and Cities. Here is one such incident in Bristol where workmen parking their vehicles on a taxi rank could have had fatal consequences for at least one unfortunate pedestrian.
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August 6, 2007 Monday

Blunder on scaffolding

Westfield has apologised after work on the new shopping centre meant pedestrians had to step out into a busy road.

Ultrasafe Scaffolding was removing scaffolding from the centre, in London Road, on Saturday morning.

But workers parked the vans in the taxi rank outside Woolworths and blocked part of the pavement, forcing pedestrians into the road.

There was no signposted diversion for shoppers and one man said he had seen a near miss between a pensioner and bus.

A spokesman for Westfield said: "We apologise. I understand that the issue was resolved after 40 minutes."
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If, and it's a big if, councils do it right in the first place, then nothing should change.

In fact from my experience the chances of folks, parking on ranks, getting tickets or being towed has increased greatly since any ticket money now goes to the council.

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IDFIMH

I'm pleased someone can see an improvement since the change but In Manchester taxi rank parking is a low priority and more often than not traffic Wardens can be seen walking past vehicles parked on a Taxi rank rather than give it a ticket.

Regards

JD

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Maybe in some areas there are drivers that know who to moan at, and keep on moaning at.

And cos the folks they moan at know they are going to be moaned at, they make sure it never gets to that stage.

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IDFIMH

Ironic that

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We have major roadworks in part of our town and to help with traffic flow on Tuesdays and Saturdays, the 2 market days, the taxi rank in the town centre has been closed. There was no consultation and no alternative rank has been provided.

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Grandad,

Do what they do in York and just keep using it

they are using it because there is nowhere else to go

i was approached by the taxi enforcement officer, he said he had been watching but admitted that he was pretty powerless in what was going on, he said he realised that you had to work and can't keeping driving round when it is quite, but the department had been under pressure from the Hotel manager to empty the street of taxis because of all the noise [what noise]

the taxi enforcement officer said if a punter comes up to the rank you must take them even tho the rank is closed

the enforcement officer did not know what byelaw 9a was, [ply for hire in any street after 1900hrs] he took notes and would go back to the office to check on the byelaw, he thought we had to return to a legal rank

the Hotel manager every night takes note of cab numbers, parks his car on the closed rank for an hour, watches and makes notes, then has a walk round the cabs before he goes home

the other night the Traffic Parking patrol came to talk to the cab drivers on the rank, they have been asked to work after 2200hrs to patrol the closed taxi rank, to instruct punters to go to another rank [ah em, every body hates traffic parking attendants] and book taxis parked

they told us they had no intention of working after 2100hrs, never in this world, that told us we can use the Horse Hackney carriage rank further back of the rank, as it isn't timed out, or park on the other side of the road outside the HOTEL DOOR, free with a minster badge or put a quid in the meter, now that really would take the p*ss out of the Hotel manager woudn't it

as York is now virtually free to park at night, it seems lots more people are parking on double yellows and leaving there vehicles all night without penalty

the parking patrol know who's started all this, the Hotel manager, they have been trying to book him for parking for ages to no avail, even they don't like him

if the Council are so concerned about ranks and timing, why not blitz the other ranks, Exibition rank closes at 0200hrs but is used till the early dawn on a weekend, the night club ranks close at 0300hrs but are used up to 0500hrs, what about cabs going early to Rougier street rank before 2359 hrs, some cabs sit there from 2200hrs

Nice to see the enforcement officer knows his own bylaws.

And that hotel manager must be getting big fat bungs from the PH firm that serves his customers.

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IDFIMH

We've had scaffolding lorries parking on our rank ALL WEEK and the cheeky sods even keep asking the taxis to move back to give them extra room to unload !

Councils are very loathed to move on scaffolders, and window cleaners, as their 'health and safety' policies usually allow them not to be moved.

They take the view that they might fall off the wall or ladder in a rush to stop getting a ticket.

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IDFIMH

This is a common problem here as well. Parking enforcement is now done by the council. Excess charge notices are issued instead of fixed penalty parking fines. Non payment is a civil matter, with £millions unpaid. Clamping & towing are illegal here. Council parking enforcement don't work after 7pm so everyone parks where they like.

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The thing that gets me is when London cabbys come down for the day and park on our ranks.
See it all the time on the one near the pier.
Cheeky b words.

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Unmet demand you're having a laugh

same here, every one parks where they like even on double yellows, but as from Monday night at 2200hrs a team from the parking management are coming out with the police, [the parking wardens refuse to work after 2100hrs]

they are going to hammer the closed York taxi rank, no where else, just the taxi rank

well well well, it never happened did it, Council scare mongering, no parking management turned up at 2200 hrs, but the Press [newspaper] did, good photo shoots outside the Hotel door complete with taxis on parade, right outside the hotel managers place of work, never seen so many cabs using the rank after it closed, even Stn Taxis contributed a few cabs to the rank, well done and thanks Stn Taxis for support, some of you are not bad lads after all

lets see what turns up in the Press over the next few day

for too long us taxi drivers have been and are treated like s*it by the Council, no more, York taxi drivers are now starting to stand up to these people, enough is enough, role on the revolution