Category: Taxis in bus lanes
The continuing fight to prevent the private taxi industry from wrecking public transport and making cycling less safe while we wait for a cycling network
Taxis in bus lanes plan scrapped
The Department for Infrastructure has scrapped the planned year long experiment to allow 4,500 private taxis into Belfast bus lanes. Hundreds of objections to the policy …
Taxis in bus lanes public consultation to be ignored?
Department declines to answer if stopping the ‘proposed experiment’ from going ahead is an option in current consultation In a worrying development for devolved government and …
Minister’s shocking U-turn on taxis in bus lanes was redacted by Transport Department
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) concealed key sections of a document which show former Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard went into a pivotal meeting on taxis access …
Enough is enough – taxis in bus lanes
Bikefast have called on the Department for infrastructure to take the long view on sustainable transport and protect our vital infrastructure from knee-jerk, un-evidenced decisions to …
Belfast bus lane taxi trial ends (but attack on sustainable transport limps on)
The strange saga of the push to get thousands of private hire taxis into Belfast bus lanes continues as the Department for Infrastructure announces the end …
Belfast taxi postcard campaign in tatters
Postcard campaign by taxi firm bosses wanting into bus lanes backfires as charm offensive flounders through ineptitude and patronising claims
Bus lane taxis “impede other road users, increase journey times” says.. Infrastructure Department
Internal DfI research from 2016 seen by Bikefast says taxis in bus lanes could “impede other road users and could increase bus journey times”
DfI: Taxis in bus lanes trial will not default into a permanent arrangement
No permanent ‘taxis in bus lanes’ by default, confirms the Department for Infrastructure
Survival guide to 84 days of taxis in Belfast bus lanes
Coping with the brutal reality of allowing thousands of taxis into Belfast’s bus lanes
Department declines to answer questions ahead of taxis in bus lanes “trial”
Transport Department declines to respond to a series of questions about the shock announcement of a trial of taxis in Belfast bus lanes