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Taxi Advertising Will Pay For Marshals

10th October 2009

An initiative has been launched to raise the £25,000 needed to save the St Helier taxi marshals scheme from being scrapped.

Cabs can now carry advertising for the first time and the cash from that will to keep the taxi marshals in place. The target of £25,000 would pay for the service for year.

Colin Russell, the chairman of the Safer St Helier Community Partnership which is made up of businesses, the police, parish officials and others, revealed that the marshals had ‘faced a fight for survival’.

He said that the marshal scheme would have been pulled in a matter of months if a new money-making scheme had notbeen thought up.

Mr Russell said: ‘We couldn’t keep relying on the States for funding and didn’t want the marshal system to be a burden on the taxpayer. The situation we were facing was that we would have had to stop the taxi marshals because of lack of funding.’

Source; ThisIsJersey.com

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