TAXI STAND ABOLISHED

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28952, 21 July 1959, Page 8

TAXI STAND ABOLISHED

New Am Set Aside For Waiting • The taxi stand In Cashel street between Manchester street and High street was abolished by the City Council last evening. Considerable difficulty had been experienced with the stand, the traffic committee reported. Many complaints had been received of taxi-drivers occupying positions on metered spaces and double parking over rights-of-way while waiting for a position on the stand. , From time to time, individual taxi-drivers had been prosecuted for waiting adjacent to the stand, and for loitering, but recently two of the cases had been dismissed, the coidmittee continued. “It appears that irrespective of what efforts are made by .the traffic department; the desired result is not being achieved. With taxi-drivers turning in this exceptionally busy portion of Cashel street, undue congestion is created." To compensate for the abolition of the stand and one in Gloucester street west of Colombo street, the council, agreed to provide a feeder stand for five vehicles on the south side of Cashel street east of the vehicular entrance to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church. The stand should provide drivers with a waiting space reasonably close to the central part of the city from which they could occupy a position oh the central stands on receipt of a radioed message, the committee said.