Taxi Driver Online

Let's hope this stand against stupid council decisions lasts.

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IDFIMH

That's the way to go. If you lie down to these people, you can't be surprised if they use you as a carpet. I just hope your local trade can stick together.

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

TAXI drivers have staged a protest at
council plans to fine them if they use
a York taxi rank late at night.
Following complaints of antisocial
behaviour and noise, City of York
Council banned taxi drivers from
waiting at the Duncombe Place taxi
rank and picking up customers after
10pm.
But some taxi drivers are refusing
to adhere to the new rules and say
customers still queue at the rank.
City of York Council is now plan-
ning a blitz on drivers who break the
new rule and is to hand out fines to
offending drivers.
But last night, taxi drivers staged
their own protest by parking on the
other side of the road.
Hackney driver Ernest Frank, of
Elvington, said many customers, par-
ticularly women, see the Duncombe
Place rank as safer than others,


often the scene of fights.
He said: “All the young lasses think
it is a lot safer in Duncombe Place.
“The rank should be open. It should
not be closing at 10pm at night and a
lot of drivers think that.”
Another driver, who wanted to
remain anonymous, said the taxi
enforcement officer had told the dri-
vers they are duty-bound to pick up
people if they are waiting at the
rank.
But the driver said parking wardens
had told his colleagues that to avoid
fines “don’t stop at the rank, just
keep driving around”.
However, news of the council’s blitz
against the taxis has been welcomed








in some quarters.
David Brooks, general manager of
the Best Western Dean Court Hotel,
in Duncombe Place, said taxi drivers
should not flout the rules. -
He said guests at the hotel and
other residents had been disturbed by
was invoked is that a significant
number of taxis are breaking the
rules and stopping and waiting for
customers.
“If they are going to be waiting
then people are going to queue.
Consequently, we and the other
neighbours will suffer from late-night
noise.
Mr Brooks said he is campaigning
for better signage to tell taxi cus-
tomers the rank is closed after 10pm.
He said the signs are too high and
cannot be seen in the dark.
A spokeswoman for City of York
Council confirmed there would be a
crackdown on drivers who break the
rules.
She said: “Some enforcement action
is planned for the near future to
ensure that the rules are being
adhered to, particularly given that
changes were introduced to help
tackle crime and antisocial behaviour
in that area late at night.”

the rumour going round now re the closed rank, is that you could be hauled up infront of the Council kangeroo court if you stop in that street or are seen to be plying for hire in that street, even tho your licence allows you to

1 your licence suspended
2 a fine from the Council

could this happen, can this happen???

In the name of "public safety" in our town we are being forced to "rank" in a pub carpark on Saturday nights from midnight to 5.00 AM. How can that be right?

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Grandad,

I'm guessing your license says something like 'licensed to ply within the district of York'.

Unless it says all bits of York bar that road, then I think the council is talking rubbish.

What members of the trade need to do is get in writing exactly what the council don't want you to do, why and where they don't want you to do something, and the legal justification for anything they want changed.

Do it via the Freedom of Information act if need be, but once you have it in writing it will make it much easier for the trade to defend, either on the streets or in the court.

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IDFIMH

I know where I won't be staying

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see pic of hotel, see para re parking, he's got a cheek, or put it on the taxi rank
http://www.deancourt-york.co.uk/dch/inf ... mation.asp

council info re taxi rank

http://www.york.gov.uk/news/newsarchive ... une/PR1844

Snazzy pillows and bedspread - look a bit Argosy though




No mention of the noise complaints from the hotel?

Are the matters mentioned in the notice a smokescreen?

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Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

So where is the rank Pete - opposite the parked cars in the photo?

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Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

in the first pic of the hotel, look to the right, you will see a pole, thats the rank, all the way back

page 36..............
http://tinyurl.com/34tmxs

There was another incident Wednesday night, around the Boer War Memorial near the Duncombe place taxi rank, loads of police, vans, unmarked cars etc etc, a sting went on, 3 arrested, nothing to do with taxi drivers

Mr Brooks the Dean Court Hotel manager was quickly on the scene,

a taxi driver was right up near him when he asked Police, can you come back at 2200hrs and move these taxis from the street, the words from the copper to which Mr Brooks didn't want to hear was, " nothing to do with us sir"

Sussex, something is going in the Press, a letter re the Council under the Freedom of imformation act, from a taxi driver, re Duncombe place incidents via the police, this should be printed this week under readers letters York Press

the council are scaremongering that taxi drivers will be fined for using Duncombe place [a street, a public place +hackney carriage], the taxi enforcement offficer as useless as he is admitted that they could do little to stop taxi drivers using that street

Bye law 9a [York] a hackney carriage may ply for hire in any street after 1900hrs

now i can think of a self made non official taxi rank outside a night club in York, the name of Ziggies nightclub, there is no taxi rank but it is used as a taxi rank till the earlly hours 2300 hrs till 0300hrs, a blind eye is taken on this one by the Council, but there again the byelaws state you can ply for hire in any street after 1900hrs, plying means either on the move or waiting
double standards i think

"Double park if neccesary."

Thats a good idea.

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Grandad,