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Continue reading…I would like to highlight to you that despite the recent cuts to many of First Glasgow being blamed on BSOG and Concession card grant cuts the folllowing. JMB Travel Ltd commenced operating a new service 56, Shotts to Hamilton on 9th December 2011 operating every 30 mins. First have ran a 15 min frequency on this route from they…
Continue reading…We have started sending specific issues with buses to the relevant provider for response. Andrew Jones contacted the website with a gripe about e 317. You can see his post here
Patrick sent it on to SPT who have a remit for taking over ‘socially necessary’ routes that are dropped by the commercial operators. The response shows that socially necessary…
I wrote to First and to SPT at the beginning of March about concerns that the servie would be cut. Here are the letters that I got back from them both. First Bus letter – Ronnie Park…
Continue reading…One of our Twitter followers @Southsidepaddy sent us this excellent link to a training video for Lothian Buses. Utterly compellng viewing and I hope FirstBus have a similar training video for Glasgow.
I don’t know whether it is the music, or the dramatic tension of ’will the cyclist survive?’ that makes it so watchable!…
I really feel that FirstGlasgow are doing all they can to hide the existence of FirstCard. There’s nothing about it on the website and there is no way of knowing which shops stock it, which means a confusing trawl around local shops at the weekend. I resorted to Twitter and some people were very helpful, but it’s a bit of…
Continue reading…A survey of bus users in Glasgow reveals almost 90 per cent don’t feel involved when changes are made to their service.
The finding comes as First Group hike fares this week by a massive 50 per cent for child all day tickets and 28 per cent for singles. Later this month a severe reduction in services will cut off…
We are now on Fixmytransport.com. BetterBuses has signed up to the site and will be adding comments to issues concerning bus transport in Glasgow. We’ll be encouraging Glasgow’s bus users to get in touch with us and record issues for our Big Plan for Better Buses and campaign.
If you haven’t come across Fixmytransport.org before, it is a website you…