The big plan for better buses
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It is true that more frequent buses are more useful to everyone. More frequent services get more people onto the buses. More passengers mean more viable services. And that helps shift more journeys from cars into buses, leading to less congestion and less pollution.
At the moment bus frequency is being cut on many routes, and evening and weekend services are suffering. This doesn’t help anyone.
In some cases, bus services that are lost can be defined as socially necessary, and the slack taken up by the transport authority. This includes evening and weekend services that are dropped by a commercial company that feels that they are unprofitable. There is no requirement for companies to cross subsidize, even within a single bus route, for the benefit of the passenger. So the private firms keep the profitable routes, and the taxpayer steps in where the free market fails. With less funding for these socially necessary services, and more routes being abandoned by commercial operators in pursuit of ever more profits, something has to give.
Would like to see the X3 to Cumbernauld from Glasgow Bus Station run more frequently in the evening to allow passengers to get home at a half decent time. There should be buses from 4 pm to 6pm at least every half hour. It really annoys me that I cant get a bus before 5.20 pm to take me to Craigmarloch if I was to leave at 4 pm which would happen often as I work flexi hours.
It feels like all buses go to the city centre, so if you just want to go see a friend in another part of the city (and not on the other side of the city centre) it is very difficult.
A kind of spiders web route plan would be good.
I totally agree with stuart – I takes almost two hours to get from the west end of glasgow to the silverburn shopping centre. Takes 15 minutes in the car.
I would like to see changes to First Glasgows 8 and 64 routes that operate into Carmyle. Service 8 should be put on until after about 8pm weekdays and it should operate on Sundays giving the people of Carmyle who use public transport the chance to get to places like Shettleston and Parkhead. Service 64 should be more reliable in terms of frequency and there is absolutely no need whatsoever for the 64 route to be subsidised by SPT where at weeknights it changes to a 164 and on Sundays remains as service 64, That is confusing a lot of people in Carmyle. It should remain as service 64 at all times. Many people are either having to wait an hour on weeknights and Sundays, phone private hire taxis and waste money on taxis to get out of Carmyle or walk 1 mile and a half to Tollcross Road to get a regular bus service and even in the cold dark nights. Or how about if Sandyhills gave Carmyle a lone of their regular 61 service? very few people from Sandyhills use the 61 service at night so that bus could be used for Carmyle and even along the London Road end of Tollcross. I think that First Glasgow are forgetting something, Carmyle is part of the east end of Glasgow, not an invisible place. I drive a car but there’s plenty other people who don’t drive cars in Carmyle.
There should be a better bus service introduced for the people of Carmyle who don’t drive at weeknights and on sundays where there is only 1 bus every hour and that is not good. I always used the buses regularly in Carmyle but I’m now driving which is better but there are times where I might need to use the bus. People are having to walk a mile and a half to Tollcross Road to get a regular bus service so something must be sorted out about this. It’s not just areas like Carmyle that are served less frequently but my friend lives in Ruchazie and if she wanted to go down to the forge by bus, she would either have to wait for an hour for the 32 bus and that goes off before 4pm in the afternoon or take a 38 bus to Riddrie and wait for a number 8 which runs from Partick to Carmyle via Riddrie and Parkhead but not frequently. I hope that Patrick can take this comment on board and pass it on to First Glasgow and The Scottish Parliament.