The council installed a taxi rank to take club-goers home quickly and trimmed the hours of nearby take-aways.

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The main changes would be to the station's forecourt, which currently features a car park and a taxi rank.

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You can see it every time you step off a plane or a train and meander to a busy taxi rank.

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Under the plans, the existing taxi rank on Bridge Street will also be relocated with new taxi ranks created in the town centre.

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With a taxi rank close by there would have been other drivers who may have witnessed the suspects getting into the silver taxi.

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Nontando Vena is a Vodacom promoter who spends a lot of time at a taxi rank in a township called Soshanguve, north of Johannesburg.

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The man had just put money in the safe when he was grabbed by a man who had been standing at a nearby taxi rank.

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The plans for Jubilee Square involve creating gardens to replace a car park in St Nicholas Place and move the taxi rank and park-and-ride bus stop.

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Other features of the scheme include adding a cycle lane to Silent Street and a night-time taxi rank and private hire area added to the bus station.

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The bus stops and taxi rank will also be repositioned which the council says will speed up journey times and make it easier for people to get into the town.

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On the list of world problems, the difficulties of Paris taxi riders may seem to rank low.

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