| Comment | Not to sound too dismissive (honestly, as it's affected me getting around the city too recently) but the current acute unreliability of the buses is, as you say, largely down to a recruitment crisis. Driven by wider inflation, cost of living, and acute demand on professional drivers across different industries, and something being seen around the world to greater or lesser degrees. Hopefully it's a temporary crisis.
Presuming the driver shortage is resolved in the short to medium term, we're then looking at what other things can be done to improve the bus service in Glasgow.
Right at the top of that list is how we allocate road space and reducing the number of cars on the road, particularly at bottlenecks for the bus network. This means 1) the main routes in and out of the city centre, and 2) the city centre itself, where nearly all bus routes congregate.
There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of remedies that can be done. Bus lanes, bus only streets, bus gates, etc. All of this is in the plan.
This'll mean that bus journey times are reliable down to the minute since they're not being held up several miles away, which makes them more attractive for customers and more economically viable in turn. |
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