Councillors want Leeds Bradford Airport taxi rank
05.06.11
Councillors in Leeds have backed calls for a taxi rank to be laid out near Leeds Bradford Airport. The council’s City Development Scrutiny Board recommended a rank should be established on Whitehouse Lane, a proposal not supported by the airport. Now, the council’s Executive Board has agreed officers should draw up plans for a rank, although no action will be taken over the summer to allow for more talks between the airport and the council.
Taxis are not allowed to ‘rank up’ at the airport as it has a contract with a private hire company. This has prompted claims from the hackney carriage operators that they are not being treated fairly and complaints that city centre congestion has increased as taxis – no longer able to wait at the airport – ply for trade. Councillor Keith Wakefield, council leader, said it would be preferable for a solution suiting all sides to be found as part of an airport surface access strategy currently being developed.
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