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Press and Journal
14-05-2025
- Business
- Press and Journal
Extra taxis to be drafted in for Aberdeen's Tall Ships festival as airport rules are dropped
Rules are to be relaxed allowing Aberdeen's airport taxis to help shuttle visitors around the city during two major events later this year. Currently, Aberdeen City Council policy has two distinct 'operation zones' for taxis. The first is specifically for the airport while the other covers the rest of the city. Airport taxis can only operate within the city zone from midnight on Saturdays to 5am on Sunday to help with night time trade. But, following concerns about a lack of cabs during the upcoming Tall Ships tourist bonanza, the rules are to be temporarily lifted. Under the brief alteration, agreed by licensing chiefs today, Aberdeen's airport taxis will be allowed to pick up customers at ranks across the city while the Tall Ships (and Offshore Europe, in September) are in town. It comes just weeks after Our Union Street boss Bob Keiller called for action to increase the number of taxis on the road ahead of the Tall Ships Races. He argued that thousands of visitors were expected to flock to the festival, but a recent report suggested there was 'no need to increase the limit on the number of taxi licences'. While councillors passed through the 'fairly straight forward' plan today, they were told that work to ensure the event will run smoothly has been moving at pace. Licensing solicitor Sandy Munro revealed that talks have taken place between the Taxi Consultation Group and Tall Ship organisers to sort out temporary ranks. Airport taxis will be able to pick up and drop off customers in the city during the Tall Ships festival from 6pm on Friday, July 18 to 11.59pm on Tuesday, July 22. More than 50 Tall Ships will be docking at the city harbour this summer. The four-day festival will feature sold out quayside concerts by Deacon Blue and the Kaiser Chiefs, while just a handful of tickets remain for the Ministry of Sound Classical gig. And to top it all off, the Red Arrows will put on a display to mark the special event. They will also be free to roam the city for Offshore Europe from Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 September. The conference and exhibition is expected to draw thousands of people from some of the world's biggest companies when it returns to TECA.
BBC News
28-02-2025
- BBC News
Work to Gloucester City Centre phase of £48m cycle route to begin
Work on the next phase of a new £48m cycling and walking route is set to begin in of the 26-mile (42km) Gloucestershire Cycle Spine, the work in Gloucester City Centre will start on 10 March and is expected to be finished by late cycle spine will connect Bishops Cleeve in the north to Stroud in the south, also linking Gloucester and David Gray, cabinet member for environment, economy and planning, said the city centre section of the route was "an essential part" of the scheme and would "significantly improve walking and cycling options for people". He also said it would "help to reduce carbon emissions and encourage active travel".The work, carried out by contractors Montel Civil Engineering Ltd, will include cycle routes on Northgate and Southgate Street - from Parliament Street to the Tall Ship will also include building the Llanthony access road between Sudmeadow Road and Hemmingsdale Road in the city, which will begin later in the spring and will complete the Gloucester South West Bypass project. Anyone who has an interest in the project, or any questions, is being encouraged to attend a "meet the contractor" event at St John's Lane Northgate Methodist Church on Wednesday.
