running the 7 every 15 minutes would be a mistake in my eyes, it is busy enough at the every 10 mins still especially the fact it is run predominantly with E200EV's, i know there is the odd decker but the Summerston- City Centre part of that route is probably the busiest
The 7 obviously being unchallenged by another service between Summerston and the City Centre via Gilshochil is why it’s busier in this area, the south-East end of the route also has the 267 & 18 running via Rutherglen.
Only First Glasgow are responsible for getting themselves into this hole of single deckers.
The 1 can stay pretty much as is due to so many variations etc, the 2 does need deckers at peak times particularly i would say and the 3 could possibly be cut to every 15 minutes but that does do sections of route that aren't really covered by any other buses.
The 2, ideally? Dual-Door Double Deckers on a 10-12 minute service, hypothetically if I was a company director here I would certainly under no circumstances start trying to mix Single & Doubles on the same route, it’s just creates a headache for the allocations of vehicles for the morning rollout of the depot trying to place certain vehicles onto specific duty boards for specific times, the reason you near always see branded buses on other routes is for this specific reason, it isn’t needed.
The 3 is an odd one as well, not that this is a route that I’ve driven but it’s seems to be quiet in some area but then much busier in others, because of the reduced frequencies across Glasgow Double Deckers are a much more suitable choice.
the 4 seems to have gone downhill since being pulled from Knightswood, as has been said the 8 and 90 are similar that they carry a lot of passengers between "sections" of the route.
The biggest problem yet again like most other routes across Glasgow is the congestion along the current route, particularly at Charring Cross.
The lower frequency 8 & 90 are particular necessary routes, many who use them will have social necessity of using them.
I havent used the buses in a while granted but it seems that its the supposedly more frequent routes that are suffering massively in terms of cancellations by the looks of things but the problem is if you try and cut half of these even by a bus or 2 then the buses on the route get overcrowded and people begin to get left at stops and then the cycle repeats. IE the 75 is every 12mins at the moment, it used to be every 10 and cutting it to 15 it would begin to struggle.
one oversight that First Glasgow could’ve perhaps been a culprit of is there purchase of smaller/shorter models thus lesser capacity, compare this to our sister city in the east and you’ll find much longer/larger models.
i think the 60 needs to go back to the way it used to be as the 40, which used to be every 10 minutes so for it to go from that to every 30 minutes is quite shocking especially when it was probably one of Parkheads flagship services, i dont know how busy the 60a is from Canniesburn to Milngavie but i think its better to withdraw it all together and put the 60 back to every 15 minutes at least and have a New service from the City Centre to Milngavie.
In the areas that much of the 60 covers especially in Clydebank and Drumchapel is covered by other services to various other locations for shopping or work etc, generally speaking the 60 doesn’t need a 10 or 15 minute service in the Drumchapel/Clydebank area.
The east-end is where combined the 60/60A is busiest and this is where the frequency needs to be maintained which of course creates a problem.
Maryhill isn’t quite the problem provided that hypothetically the 61 could be kept reliable in this location.
A problem of the privatised industry and the way that leaves services as a whole very dissected which is where the 60A should acceptably be left hourly between Milngavie & City Centre.
