32585/598-605/611-615/617/626 are the only ones not for the scrapman
It would be nice to see a green painted decker on the 2
And yet I'm seeing Double Deckers more often on the 2 these days.
37751 (the GGPTE liveried Volvo B9tl) is quite regularly on the 2 these days. I don't know how long it will last like this until it's repainted back into First livery.
So that's First Glasgow now a Plaxton President free zone. The bodywork on these were pretty good.
The mass exodus of old Double Deckers has nothing to do with driver shortage. They allowed the new E400EVs to bed in before the time was right to dispose of them.
I get the 2 on most days to be fair and the number of double deckers had been steadily growing but it's gone up a fair bit more with the new timetable to the most it has had in years.
Its been like that for years and its no worse these days than i was back in the day….
I remember it being bad but nothing like it's been lately. There's police incidents most days at the minute. It's been bad but not like that for a good while and as I say it's important when most of First's services cover the area becoming far less desirable
Town has always been bad. It's just now that the issues have sort of moved nearer Central station and away from Sauchiehall Street.
Around the outside of St Enoch's is horrendous just now for trouble too. The only reason I go near is for food normally and because of using the 1s so much at the weekend.
The original 6 just seemed to gradually die over the years. It used to terminate on Alderman Road in Garscadden but on the east side it changed route and termini numerous times. I remember it went as far out as Gartferry possibly on an SPTE tender.
Growing up my local bus services were the 6 and 58 and I recall at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Alderman Road the 6, 9, 10 and 15 were all available , depending on where you wanted to go and could get to the appropriate bus stop in time.
I remember buying that book when it first came out, Just wish I knew where it is now as it was a fount of knowledge.
Thanks for the info. When I was younger it was the 42, 62, 66, 204, 205, 215 and 216 for me and then the 9, 42A and 44 a bit further along. Other than Great Western Retail Park being a bit more accessible and the Knightswood to Glasgow West End link not too much has changed since. It's a shame though as I feel the 44 and even when it changed to the 4 they were much busier than the X4 a lot of the time.
By goodness you're showing your age.
Cardowan had to look up where that was. Don't see that on the destination displays now. 44 used to be well used, I am more familar with Southside section of the route.
Yeah the 38C and the train to Stepps is as close to Cardowan as public transport covers now. As much as I had to walk by getting it the 44 dodged a lot of the congestion by going via Woodlands Road and Glasgow University so it became so much better to use to avoid Great Western Road and Partick.
The obvious answer to connecting the x4 is to divert the 4/4A around Stockwell Place
I'd have just had it so the X4 covered Broomhill and then down to Thornwood and onto the expressway. Adds a few mins but creates another quicker option for people in Broomhill too.
That's actually a good suggestion. It could also - possibly - attract existing train passengers from that area as the running time to the city centre wouldn't be that much different when you factor in the walk to and from the station.
You’d be as well cutting it at Broomhill if you were going to do that. All that change would do would make it a slow, unattractive route for the already few people in Knightswood that use it.
That was my main reason for suggesting it to be fair. Going back to the old route in Knightswood that every other bus has followed would probably help too to be fair. Trying to turn at Victoria Park is absolutely hell on earth in the evening peak. It wouldn't actually add much running time to the overall route either.
You would still need to run a service along Victoria Park Dr North (as opposed to going along Southbrae and turning at Jordanhill Station which would be the sensible route) though or you would run foul of the Jordanhill blue rinse gangster grannies.
When I was younger, very nearby was the 42, 42A, 92 & 159 when it ran. It was good to have many First bus options to Partick and a direct link to Clydebank without the need to walk down towards Yoker or change buses in Drumchapel, a thing residents of my area still need to do years since the withdrawal of the 92.'
The infrequent M11 runs every 30 minutes and gets an SPT tendered service in the evening.
No, I can’t remember, sorry.
Outside of any services I’ve ever driven I’m unaware what areas are under served tbh, I have said though that the network looks like it could be a little more diverse and in turn SPT wouldn’t need to spend quite so much on subsidising some of the smaller routes if they could be removed.
