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Whats all Happening up there, I dont drop off or Pick up at Waverly very often and I was completely caught off guard when I had to collect from there last night..the road into the pick up parking was closed off...Once I drove past the Station entrance and found it closed I was past the point of no return, I therfore had to go round by princes street and loop back in to market street and then park as best I could in market street before I could do my Meet and Greet bit at the station....

Even in the station it was a nightmare of a place..little temporary passages here and there...was a real pain in the backside.

I couldnt get near where the Sign said Temporary Pick up and Drop off point and Taxi rank due to a whole line of Hacks filling up the street.

If I had went up during the busier day time I reckon it would be mission impossible to park up and collect anyone from the station for fear of getting a parking ticket off the blue meanies.

How do you edinburgh guys put up with that upheaval...and how much longer is it all due to last before we can get back into the Belly of the station and to its short stay parking area?? Indeed, will it ever be Normal in that Station again???

1 drop off and prebooked pick up just opposite fruitmarket gallery

another further on past the taxi rank on east Market St next to the new St car park.

People use it properly it's not a major problem (I've not had any problems yet, if there is no space on the rank then you don't park as it's heavily regulated with zigzags at crossings and no parking signs. You want to be a desperado and hang of the back on a crossings zig zag lines and risk 3 points and a fine. Go ahead. You get any punishment if caught!

Don't know how you missed all the signs leading towards the station saying it's closed and where the diversions are?

Dunno either..but never noticed any on the way in, dazzled by the Big city Lights maybe..

Nahh...next time I'll just tell the clients to loiter near the Sportsters Bar...I can get them to phone when they're there.

Had a cracker tonite.

Against my better judgement, and I know I said I wouldn't but 3 johhny foreigners got into the taxi at Mood, wanting to go to the airport.

It was 2 am. (I do work after 2 when there is demand )

Anyway, in broken ... swahili .... or someother unintelligible northern european language ... I think ... the gutterally expressed demand to go to the aeropuerto came.

Despite thinking these guys were nutters, I did the good taxi driver licensee gig and assume the customer was sane. See, I know the council is desperate to get little ol' me and do a Skull put down on yours truly. And quaking in my boots lest they remove my licence and prevent me from subsidising the taxi owner and the rest of the public, I meekly acceded to the somewhat strange request to go to Edinburgh's bastion of commercial greed, the aeropuerto, in the dead of night.

Approaching the airport the question was offered. Pay or free.

These guys emphatically chose free. The pound in their mind saved.

Anyway, for the first time in my life I followed the signs to the free drop off. I turned corners, more corners, and corners after that.

Eventually we got through a barrrier, ticket collected, warning noted that if I stayed longer than 10 mins, a BAA hand will be reaching into my pocket to relieve me big time. Let's hope it's a female hand then, eh? (Gosh, is that a licence removal gig?)

Anyway, got in. Dropped the three guys for the expected bare fare. And drove around them, they obviously wondering where the hell they were in this far flung outpost of airport empire. It was like a spaceship dropping Adam and Eve off on planet jollies and them not having a scooby what to do next? Well, we all know what they did do, but that's another story. Back to this tale.

What a chuckle.

For the sake of a quid, these guys were now confronted with an initiative test that their intoxicated cerebellums were gonna have some difficulty with.

Never mind, the airport didn't get its quid. These 3 amigos cast their vote on BAA's greed.

Quality!

And this is about the Waverley......how?

Oh jimmy boy, You really do like to look after your passengers, NOT.

You are a disgrace, those passengers won't think about whether the airport charges for dropping off or not. They will just think you and all other taxi drivers are [edited by admin].
Does the shuttle bus run at that time?
You could easily have given them some advice.

That would require him to act like a professional. He treats this job like everybody treats him, as a joke. One has to beg the question why people like jasbar even bother to consider a job in the service trade

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Agreed.

well, got to admit that i'm a relative newbie to the trade having only held my brief for 3 years but i've always believed i should try to help out visitors to our city whilst in the course of duty. its really quite disappointing that not only would a driver deliberately do something like this but then come on a public forum and blab off about it. did you not at least make an attempt to explain to them that by saving a pound they'd be left a mile from the terminal? reading between the lines here i'd guess that you may have been waiting for an opportunity like this for a while in order to make your point. the sad thing is, i'm sure it was totally lost on your passengers.

You guys make me laugh.

With no cases, you and I don't even know whether they wanted the terminal or not?

I didn't make the choice. He customers did. BAA did. The council didn't dispute it, so they must agree. I only dhere to the rules here.

But what is clear is that the rules are flawed, they don't work and the council is in dereliction of its public duty here.

And there's you bozos coming on all pious claim I've done wrong. get a life.

Instead of ranting on here, why don't you write to BAA and tell thm where they're wrong. Then get onto the council and ask what they're doing about it.

But you'd rather bump your chops about me? Do you fear me that much?

Your customer service skills are flawed. It surprises me you can fit in a cab to do the job with the size of the chip on your shoulder

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

at the great risk of rising to your bait, I agree with durr. you only do what's considered right, in your opinion, for you. not the customer, the council, other drivers etc, just you. you wanted to make a point, you have done. in doing so you have probably alienated the customers who you dropped off, who will in turn warn their friends against using edinburgh black cabs, because they're fvckwits. no matter it was a one off, they'll still see all of you in the same light. well done. you've taken another (albeit small) step closer to fvcking over your city's trade and all that rely on it. you must be so proud.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

How do you explain the intricacies of BAA's drop off policy to foreigners who are pished and barely speak English?

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