Consideration should be given to providing more taxi ranks in Sutton town centre.

 

Richard intends to ask the Board considering a programme of development around Sutton railway station (the “Sutton Gateway” project) to look at the case for additional taxi ranks in the town centre, and whether they could be made to work and be of value.

He was speaking after meeting officers from Transport for London and the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, preliminary to the development of the project to look at the options for improvements to the area around Sutton railway station. 

He said “The only major taxi rank operating all day and night in the town centre is the one at the railway station. It is a long walk from the other end of the town centre. While we are looking at the way buses and taxis operate around the area of the station, as part of the project TfL is funding, we ought to look at the town centre as a whole.” 

Transport for London have provided funding for a project to examine options for improvements to the area around Sutton railway station. This may include the opening of the side entrance to Sutton station, and the project is about to commence.

Sutton South Ward includes the side entrance and many of our residents, commuting to London every day, walk past the shuttered and barricaded side entrance to enter the station from the oftenovercrowded front. Richard is a member of the project Board.