Cardiff is set to get a new taxi rank, reports Wales Online.
The website notes that the new rank has been put in place in order to try and reduce the “chaos” outside the city’s main train station.
Now, there will be seven new spaces outside the station.
Wales Online comments that the news follows “a long campaign” by hackney carriage drivers in Cardiff.According to the source, there have been problems with cabbies being forced to illegally park on double yellow lines and pavements as there is not enough space for cabs.
The chairman of the city’s licensing committee, councillor Ed Bridges, said that there is an ongoing issue with the lack of rank space which was “particularly keenly felt” in front of the train station.
Last month, plans to create 100 more spaces across north-east Lincolnshire were branded not enough by cabbies in the area.
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