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| Author: | Chester J.D. [ Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Taxi drivers' Wrexham shopping centre snub ' |
Taxi drivers' Wrexham shopping centre snub 'affecting the elderly' ELDERLY shoppers are having to carry heavy bags across the road because taxis will no longer stop in a shopping centre car park. A Wrexham councillor said several elderly people had told him their taxi service will not pick them up at Eagles Meadow shopping centre itself any more. Instead they are having to cross to the road or walk across the footbridge to the closest available pick-up point at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel. Some taxis are shunning the multi-storey car park at Eagles Meadow since a driver who was dropping off a mother and her two children was given a £70 fine. Keith White, a driver for Town Cars on King Street, Wrexham, claims the mother was taking her pram from the boot when a parking warden photographed his vehicle and issued him with a £70 fine for “causing an obstruction”. Milton Keynes-based VINCI Park Services dropped his fine to £40 after he wrote to them, but said: “The signs displayed around the car park where your vehicle was parked clearly set out the terms and conditions, and the consequence of non-compliance. “You chose to park your vehicle at the Eagles Meadow car park and park your vehicle causing obstruction.” Now some taxis will not enter the car park, said Ponciau Cllr Paul Pemberton. “Since the incident I’ve got several elderly people who use the taxi service to Eagles Meadow who have come to me,” he said. “They do their weekly shop at Marks and Spencer and the taxi would pick them up at the bottom of the lift and take them home. “But the taxi firm has informed them it will not enter Eagles Meadow any more. “They have to walk across the road to a car waiting outside the Wynnstay Arms Hotel. “When you’re 80 years old with heavy bags to carry that’s not easy. “And the taxi firm can’t pick up on the other side (opposite Debenhams) because there’s a bus stop and double yellow lines.” He said the people he had spoken to could spend £100 a week at the shopping centre, but may go elsewhere if the situation was not resolved. “It’s going to harm Eagles Meadow,” he said, “I have emailed the (Wrexham Council) economic development department asking if it would have strong words with Eagles Meadow to talk to VINCI and see if something can be done. “I’m taken aback by the whole situation. I just think it’s time they listened to a bit of common sense.” Eagles Meadow manager Kevin Critchley said: “We are in discussions with VINCI who operate and control the car park and are working hard to see if it is possible to find a solution to this matter.” http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/121054 ... erly-.aspx |
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| Author: | grandad [ Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers' Wrexham shopping centre snub ' |
Is this a private car park or a council car park? If it is a private car park tell them to sod off. They can't issue fines. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi drivers' Wrexham shopping centre snub ' |
grandad wrote: Is this a private car park or a council car park? If it is a private car park tell them to sod off. They can't issue fines. If it's being run by that outfit then it's a private ticket, and can safely be ignored. |
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