The article presents issues of taxi bays in Poznan city. The purpose of this article is characteristics of management of the road lanes and proper markings of the road signs. In order to analyse the proper use of the road lane, the measurements were made for 11 several taxi bays (passengers taxi stops). The research allowed to determine the directions of changes for selected taxis bays i.e. maintenance, liquidation. It shows that in most cases taxi bays 260 Jakub Wiecanowski, Marcin Kiciński are not adapted to actual needs. However, the analysis of the taxi bays indicates the lack of justification for maintaining the current state and the necessity of introducing thorough changes. The authors proposed the classifications procedure of taxi stops. The procedure included three criteria: the average number of parking taxis, safety and effectiveness of taxi stands.