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Author	Scunnered20
Comment	You'll hear a lot of doom and gloom on here, and yes things are far from ideal, but works are underway to improve the transport network in Glasgow quite profoundly. There won't be any nationalisation of the bus system - better to let individual cities and authority areas manage their own systems than set up a national body. But that aside, there is work happening on: Bus prioritisation corridors (effectively a light version of Bus Rapid Transit) for five key arterial roads running outwards from the city centre. These will provide bus lanes, which may be physically separated. As well as bus prioritisation at traffic lights, and a reorganisation of bus stops. This will make a huge number of our bus lines much more efficient and faster. Light rail lines are being designed right now as part of the pre-planning works for the Clyde Metro The Scottish Govt has an active commission (The Fair Fares Commission) which is due to provide its findings soon, on increasing public subsidy to bus ticketing (i.e. we're very likely to see something similar to or perhaps even better than the £2 cap on bus fares in England soon). Also, I know it is a running joke at this point and hard to believe, but with the roll-out of Tap On Tap Off ticketing systems on First, and soon all other bus operators this year and next, we're on target to have integrated ticketing across the bus and subway by 2025.
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Created	Fri 27th Jan 2023 10:50am
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You'll hear a lot of doom and gloom on here, and yes things are far from ideal, but works are underway to improve the transport network in Glasgow quite profoundly.

There won't be any nationalisation of the bus system - better to let individual cities and authority areas manage their own systems than set up a national body.

But that aside, there is work happening on:

*Bus prioritisation corridors (effectively a light version of Bus Rapid Transit) for five key arterial roads running outwards from the city centre. These will provide bus lanes, which may be physically separated. As well as bus prioritisation at traffic lights, and a reorganisation of bus stops. This will make a huge number of our bus lines much more efficient and faster.

*Light rail lines are being designed right now as part of the pre-planning works for the Clyde Metro

*The Scottish Govt has an active commission (The Fair Fares Commission) which is due to provide its findings soon, on increasing public subsidy to bus ticketing (i.e. we're very likely to see something similar to or perhaps even better than the £2 cap on bus fares in England soon).

* Also, I know it is a running joke at this point and hard to believe, but with the roll-out of Tap On Tap Off ticketing systems on First, and soon all other bus operators this year and next, we're on target to have integrated ticketing across the bus and subway by 2025.