Taxi chaos at Glasgow Airport
06.05.10
Taxi drivers who operate at Glasgow Airport claim they are being 'driven round the bend' because a decision to close an automatic entry barrier is causing traffic chaos, the Paisley Daily Express reports.
The cabbies have to queue up at a holding area and then pass through remotely-operated barriers in order to reach the rank at the front of the terminal building. There are normally two barriers in operation to let taxis flow to the rank but one of them has been closed while airport bosses carry out improvements to the forecourt area.
Drivers of Renfrewshire Council-licensed private hire taxis have complained that this has led to a huge bottleneck of traffic at the barriers at the junction of Bute Road and St Andrews Drive. They also claim that priority is being given to other vehicles, such as delivery vans and airport hotel buses. And the disruption is set to continue until the end of June.
A taxi driver told the newspaper: ‘There has been chaos, with a huge queue of cars backed up all the way from the barrier. There are normally just two barriers, which isn’t enough anyway, and when just one is working, things get really bad. Passengers have been irate when they get into a taxi because they’ve waited up to half an hour at the rank.’
A spokesman for Glasgow Airport said the problem is being caused by ongoing building work and added that they are making ‘every effort’ to manage the disruption.
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