Euston station: taxi drivers complain about new cab rank

Steve McNamara, from the LTDA, says it is more vulnerable passengers who are suffering the most.

“The reality is they have designed a taxi rank here at Euston station that isn’t impossible to get into, but it’s virtually impossible to get into.

“You either have to do an illegal move – a dubious U-turn – or you have to go a 15 or 20-minute diversion to get here.

“Obviously when it’s busy and there’s people on the streets, taxis don’t get here. So what tends to happen is the able-bodied people abandon the queue, hail a cab in the street, leaving the disabled and elderly here waiting for a cab for hours.”

He says the solution is very simple.

“We used to be able to do a left turn into Church Way. It just needs the prohibition on the left turn lifted.

“TfL tell us that is a traffic order, it could take six months. Camden [council] say talk to TfL, TfL say talk to HS2. HS2 say talk to Network Rail. Network Rail say talk to Camden. It’s like a Monty Python sketch.

“They cannot get their act together and as a result of that it’s passengers that are suffering.”