After months of wrangling, taxi drivers have finally relented and agreed to give up their claim to be able to use the newly repaved area as a rank to pick up passengers.
In return they are getting an alternative rank in Library Place, realigned to make it safer.
It will also be policed by a traffic warden to stop the public parking in spaces allocated for taxis.
In addition, a three-space rank will be created in Beresford Street outside the Central Market as well as a three-space night-time rank outside La Cala.
A few extra spaces in Mulcaster Street will serve the Weighbridge rank.
Drivers voted to accept the deal offered by Environment and Public Services Committee president Senator Philip Ozouf.
The Senator was ‘relieved and pleased’ at the outcome and said he was happy to endorse the plan put forward by the drivers.
Jersey Taxi Drivers Association (JTDA) secretary Dave Le Corre said that work had started to make the Library Place rank safer for both the drivers and the public.
Mr Le Corre said: ‘The JTDA is delighted we can now move forward and put this long-standing dispute to rest.’
