| Comment | Won't help massively. All the taxis and private hires not on 'official university business' will still be picking up and dropping off wherever the customer requests.
If a customer books the pickup for the corner of University Avenue and Southpark Avenue then that's where the taxi will stop and wait. If they want dropped off at the main gates then we will drop them as close as we can to the gates.
We don't want to be stopping in stupid places and sitting on bike lanes, but we are limited to what we have to work with. For example, if they stick a bike lane down the entire length of Byres Road on both sides of the street and someone books a car for an address on Byres Road... it's a bit of a catch 22.
Ultimately, the problem is not taxi drivers stopping in stupid places. It's customers booking stupid pick-up locations and wanting dropped off at stupid places. Lost count of the number of times I've had customers standing waiting next to white zig zags or booked pickup for an address right next to a cycle lane or heard "Just drop me off in that bus stop there mate". |
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