Additional taxi rank sought for Cavan Town

More signage and more attention brought to the location of a taxi rank on Main Street was needed, Fianna Fáil's Patricia Walsh told the January meeting of Cavan-Belturbet Municipal District.

She said that the rank outside Tesco on Main Street was only during day hours, but suggested it needed to be made more permanent.

“It's been an issue for a number of years,” she told the meeting, going back even to the days of the Town Council when she said there was a permanent allocation of ranks in the local area.

She added that additional signage be put up at Tesco to remind motorists of the taxi hours, saying that “especially at night” there was a need for ranks because increasingly people were unable to get lifts home.

Independent Brendan Fay said that Saturday nights had become “problematic” for people socialising in Cavan, where unless a lift had been prearranged, if was difficult to get a taxi out of the county town.

He agreed it was important that a permanent rank be positioned in the centre of town so that people “didn't have to be walking down streets at night looking for a lift”.

There was support too for the motion from Fine Gael's Peter McVitty and Fianna Fáil's Áine Smith.