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Southern urged to think again about closing Brighton Station taxi rankTrain company Southern is being urged to think again about its decision to close the busiest taxi rank in the area whenever Brighton and Hove Albion play evening games.
The Conservative parliamentary candidate for Hove Graham Cox said that the decision was a mistake.
He spoke out after the customer experience manager at Brighton Station emailed cabbies.
The email said that the closures were necessary because of the widely reported problems caused by the new queuing system when implemented for the first game of the season.
Councillor Cox, the Tories’ transport spokesman on Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “This has all the hallmarks of a knee-jerk reaction by Southern which has not been properly thought through.
“It will have a detrimental effect on the travelling public, with commuters having even more of a struggle to get home.
“Taxi drivers pay £470 a year to pick up at the station and to treat them in this high-handed fashion is unfair.
“I am convinced there is plenty of room for a proper queue, without the need to close the rank.
“I urge the railway authorities and British Transport Police to work with the taxi drivers and council transport officers to sort this out before the next home game.”
source: http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2014 ... rank/33614
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