Why are taxis permitted to use bus lanes? They're not buses.
The whole point of bus-lanes is surely to speed the population en-mass from where they are to where they want to be. The sacrifice other road users make is to sit in their car-queues while watching their fellow citizens speed past them in the comfort and stress-free environment of a Cardiff Bus - not for some scruffy, dirty, taxi driver to fast track another doctor's prescription delivery from door to door.
If the argument is that by asking a taxi we reduce the number of vehicles on the road - rubbish!
If Mr and Mrs Better Cardiff decide to visit the city centre from Better Towers here in leafy Lisvane, we will drive in the four miles and park before driving the return journey, a total of 8 miles. A taxi however will drive from the centre to collect us before driving back - a first leg of eight miles, and then repeat the operation in reverse thereby covering a massive 16 miles. How does this contribute to the well-being of our transport system?
So lets get the petrol guzzling, dirty taxis out of our bus lanes and do ourselves a big favour
I'm fed up with disrespectful taxi drivers cutting me up and escaping into the distance on the bus lanes
ReplyDeleteI am fed up with taxi drivers driving really badly. Don't they know how to signal either!
ReplyDeleteStop parking in cycle lanes too, not just taxi drivers but all drivers.
I had to emergency break because a taxi did a sudden u-turn on North Rd today. It was really dangerous, not for him but for the rest of the road users.
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