We’re excited to be working with Glasgow Living Rent on a new campaign to get Glasgow City Council to agree to invest the income from the new Tourist Tax in improving our public transport.
Specifically, we want to see this money spent on helping our transport authority – Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) – to deliver their ambitious plans to bring our region’s bus network back into public control over the next few years.
This will enable SPT to plan bus routes to serve our communities’ needs and to connect seamlessly with the Subway and trains.
It will mean we can have cheap flat bus fares across the region (like Greater Manchester’s £2.00 ‘hopper‘ fare), and can have affordable ‘tap and cap’ integrated ticketing across all transport modes.
This will be transformative for Glaswegians who currently suffer under the privatised bus system with unreliable services and extortionate fares (a single on FirstBus is currently £3.10, on McGill’s it’s £5.75!)
But it will also massively improve visitors’ experience of Glasgow. Tourists are often completely bamboozled by the fragmented, confusing and expensive public transport system that we currently have, that makes it so difficult to get around the city in a sustainable way.
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