Skip to main content
NEU job vacancy
Time for buses to return to public control, say campaigners
Jack from Get Glasgow Moving handing petition to SPT Vice Chair Cllr Alan Moir [Susan Galloway]

AN ALMOST 10,000-signature petition demanding public control of buses was presented to Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) today.

Transport, anti-poverty and climate activists stood with trade unions to support the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign pressing SPT to use its newly restored powers not only to reregulate services but to run them.

The STUC backed their calls for the regulation of fares, the introduction of franchising and the formation of a publicly owned bus company.

“SPT is looking at all the options for future bus operations in our area, which we all recognise have been in serious decline over a number of years.”

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
People board a bus in the rain in Glasgow, December 12, 2023
Public Transport / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025
Coins in a Saltire purse
3 December 2024
3 December 2024