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Sounds about right - you only get to know about these things when you turn up at the rank and can't get on

Incidentally, this is the rank where the punter was killed a year ago when it all kicked off in the taxi queue


Angry Dundee taxi driver ‘losing money’ after bricks dumped on one of city’s busiest ranks

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/lo ... est-ranks/


Image: DC Thomson/The Courier

A taxi driver has blasted Tayside Contracts for dumping bricks on one of Dundee’s busiest ranks.

Raymond Noble was left aghast when a large section of the space at Steeple Church was blocked and said he and fellow cabbies were losing money while it was out of action.

A Tayside Contracts team are working on nearby traffic lights and have placed cones around a stretch of the taxi rank while they dump stone and grit.

Mr Noble, who has been a cab driver in the city for 15 years, said space for around five cars had been lost as a result of the work.

The 60-year old, who is self-employed, said he was losing wages because he is struggling to get a spot at Nethergate.

He claims there was no consultation before the work began.

He became aware of it on Monday.

The work is scheduled to be finished by Friday.

Mr Noble said: “I am losing money, it’s as simple as that.

“I am just a street car and don’t pick up jobs through a radio, so I am being really hit hard.

“I’ve been left driving around trying to find a space.

“When I can’t get in at the Steeple Church I try to get near the bus station on Seagate, but I normally have to wait an hour and a half longer than usual to get a job there.

“It’s not the first time this has happened where works start without us being told. It’s like they don’t care about taxi drivers, or they just don’t think about us as much when deciding things.

“It’s a bad time of the year anyway for business, but this makes it even worse. I am angry about it.”

Graeme Stephen, chairman of the Dundee Taxi Association, said: “As far as I am aware we weren’t notified of anything there before the work started.

“If it was emergency work needing done like a gas pipe then we wouldn’t normally get notification, but I went past that rank earlier and it appears to be just for traffic lights.

“The taxis always seem to suffer when they take away space on the roads for work. They never get any extra at the front or anything like that.”

A Dundee City Council spokeswoman said: “We are upgrading the pedestrian crossing in the Nethergate.

“This work is due to be completed by Friday.

“We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

Sorted

I think the local HCA needs to write to the council to say they are suing for loss of revenue although I doubt they'll get anywhere

today our rank was occupied by a low loader delivering equipment to roadworks round the corner. When we politely suggested he move before the wardens give him a ticket he stated that his flashing yellow strobes were on which gave him the right to park there. When we suggested that that wouldn't work he offered us the keys and said you move it then

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

I wonder if she would be so nonchalant if she wasn't being paid until the work was completed, like many of the drivers.

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You should have said no, because you need to be a c*** to drive one of those.

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