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Grimsby Telegraph; Letters

Unofficial Rank Finally Made Legal

4th September 2008

Re: Taxi Rank's Go-ahead, this new rank opposite AA Taxi office will only make the rank legal, as the rank cabs have been making an unofficial rank there for months.

The council states the ranks in Sea View Street and Market Street, Cleethorpes, co-exist because no rank cars use them.On Friday/Saturday nights near Grimsby Town station and Town Hall Street, Grimsby, the ranks are overflowing. Why? Because the Hackney Carriage office has been giving plates out to anyone who comes along with a wheelchair-friendly vehicle.

There are more cabs than customers.

The rank opposite the AA office will cause lots of problems for the existing shops, as it did a few years ago - windows broken, vomit, litter and urinating in doorways.

Okay, there are street cleaners Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, who transform the High Street back to normal, but will the council charge the Hackney Carriage office for the extra cleaning, which, of course, would pass on the cost to the drivers?

Last week we had a man on a monkey bike trying to steal my living.

Now we have a legal rank less than 50 yards from my office doing the same.

It seems rank drivers want the full privileges of ranks, be able to be flagged down and have office radios as well.

If more than four cars are on this rank and block the road, who do we complain to, the Hackney Carriage office, or the police?

Paul (car 41, AA Cars), Mendip Avenue, Grimsby.


Source; thisisgrimsby.co.uk

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