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Taxis at New Street station could be rationed, TooManyTaxis?

Taxi access to Birmingham’s New Street Station could be rationed in an attempt to relieve traffic chaos.

Council highways chiefs are talking to the police and Network Rail about restricting the number of black cabs able to enter the station at peak times.

Taxis cause Leeds city centre gridlock

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 waiting 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………….

Report calls for more taxis in Bath

An investigation on behalf of council officials has concluded that more licences should be issued in the city and that extra space should be found for taxis…………

Whitley Bay Rank Alterations:South Parade

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North Tyneside Council is to widen the pavement at the bottom of South parade in Whitley Bay in order to install a second railing at the Taxi [...]

Parking Crackdown Begins:Newcastle-u-Tyne

there are something in the region of 86 Rank spaces for hackney carriages in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne and roughly 800 + Hackney Carriages. It doesn’t take an Oxford graduate to work out that some cars are not going to be able to get on a Rank.

Taxi deregulation brings only regret

Open-entry taxicab deregulation: It sounds great, doesn’t it? How could anyone not like the idea of more competition, of the free market deciding the level of taxicab service in Anchorage?

Congestion,Parking Offences:Whitley bay

NORTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL now have PARKING WARDENS controlling the NORTH TYNESIDE AREA under the DECRIMINALISATION PARKING ENFORCEMENT(DPE)that could be used to inform HOTELIERS what they must instruct drivers, of these HEAVY MOTOR VEHICLES