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The Nolan Show: 4,500 private hire taxis could flood Belfast's bus lanes - that's the warning from the Unite union

4,500 private hire taxis could flood Belfast's bus lanes - that's the warning from the Unite union

20/06/2018

BBC Radio Ulster - The Nolan Show, 4,500 private hire taxis could flood Belfast's bus lanes - that's the warning from the Unite union

Unite says "this proposal is likely to led to a rise in traffic congestion".

The bus drivers' union Unite is urging the public to "bombard the Department for Infrastructure email" over opening Belfast bus lanes to private taxis. Edited since transmission.

The bus drivers' union UNITE is urging the public to "bombard (the) Department for Infrastructure email" over opening Belfast bus lanes to private taxis. The Department launched a consultation last week into whether taxis should get to use them, with a closing date of July 6th. Unite say this would lead to 4,500 taxis flooding our bus lanes, and that "as every full bus means fifty less cars on our roads - this proposal is likely to led to a rise in traffic congestion". Also, another day of the RHI inquiry and another bad day for officials from the Department of Enterprise which oversaw the botched green energy scheme. Yesterday the inquiry heard how any of the most senior civil servants in the Stormont department were involved in watering down what ought to have been a blunt warning that the RHI scheme was out of control. Plus, a former soldier is to be charged with the killing of Aidan McAnespie, who was shot dead on his way to a GAA match in County Tyrone in February 1988. The public prosecution service reversed an earlier decision to drop charges against the man, who claimed he fired the fatal shot by accident. It's lead to some Unionists branding it an imbalance in the justice system. And, Nicola Weir visits Belfast's brand new Grand Central hotel.

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