Kelvindale Bus Petition

Bill with Labour colleague Ann McKechin MP

I would like to express my dismay at the decision by First Bus to cut the local No 11 service to reduce, as the company puts it, “the firm’s carbon footprint”.

 

First Bus has reduced the number of buses on the vital No11 Robroyston to Parkhall, Clydebank, route which travels via the city centre and Anniesland.  The company has said the move will reduce the environmental impact on a route which doesn’t carry many passengers but the fact is many local people, particularly the elderly community, rely on this service to travel across the city.

 

My Labour colleague Ann McKechin MP and I have launched a campaign on behalf of families in Kelvindale.  Our petition has been supported by residents angered at bus services cuts.  So far over 300 people have signed the petition demanding the cuts be reversed.

 

I have written to the head of First Glasgow, Mark Savelli, asking him to reconsider the cuts.  It is completely unacceptable to cut this local service. The No11 is vital to people in Kelvindale, from older people who depend on it to get into town to local service sector workers coming home late.

 

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