The 38 bus
anon posted on the 13/01/2015 9:51:56 AM
Always overcrowded by the time it gets to dennistoun, Can't get off at your stop because cant get by the 20 odd people forced to stand in the forward area of the bus in time. People standing all the way up the stairs...
In what way is this a service?
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#6 - anon replied on the 15/01/2015 7:24:54 PM
If it was the fifties it would probably be a whole lot better. I've been told by a former manager at First bus that it us not a public service, it is a business. I was also told that decisions to cut bus routes could even be based on them having counted how many people were standing at bus stops at any given time. Nobody at bus stops = obviously no service needed! I complained that there is no straight through bus from either Great Western Rd or Woodlands Rd to either the Parade or Duke St and was told that there used to be a 42(btw it didn't go near Woodlands Rd or Great Western Rd anyway) but that no one used it! Also that I could get a 19 from Byres Rd. So they're suggesting that I run from Woodlands up to Byres Rd to get a bus which will only take me as far as the Royal at Castle St before it heads off in another direction to Royston Rd?...... it takes me an hour to walk the whole way, probably quicker than the bus too. Imagine running to Byres Rd in the opposite direction from the way you're wanting to travel, trying to catch the last bus at night, which might leave up to ten minutes early or might be fifteen minutes late and when you reach the stop you have no way of knowing if it has gone or is still to come. So you wait for ages in the vain hope that it hasn't gone early and just as you have given up and started to walk, it sails past you and refuses to stop........ are buses in other cities as bad as this?
#5 - The Mentalist replied on the 15/01/2015 5:58:44 PM
Glasgow is retreating backwards in so many ways.  Limited public transport on Sundays? What is this? The fifties?
#4 - Concerned replied on the 15/01/2015 3:36:10 PM
Its ridiculous that there isn't a train station for Braehead.
#3 - The Mentalist replied on the 14/01/2015 9:22:34 PM
The buses are so awful i ended up buying a car. Don't know how i managed before.
#2 - ANON_L replied on the 14/01/2015 6:22:04 PM
Mr Anderson could you not get the train once your back in town and off the 747? The trains run on a Sunday from Bellgrove. Suppose its not much use if your up Allie Parade end mind.
#1 - Mr Anderson replied on the 14/01/2015 2:50:02 PM
Don't get me started. I get the 747 from out near Braehead to/from work. It takes about an hour to get from there to the city centre and then I get the 38 home.
I left work at 1625 last night and didn't get home until 1810. I got into the city centre at at 1725 and it took me 45 minutes to get home using a 38. You should be able to walk it in 35 minutes.
There used to be a 42 (straight to the west end), 38 (what's up with all the b's and c's and d's?), 36, 213 all used to service the parade and now we just have a 38.
The other thing that bugs me is that you wait ages for a 38 in town. One eventually turns up and loads of people get on it. So with loads of people on it, it stops at every stop along the way, making it even slower. What really grates on me, is that cos you waited so long for a bus, another one turns up a few minutes later practically empty. Then people who've not waited for the same amount of time get on that empty bus. And because that bus is so empty, it doesn't have as many stops to make. So it overtakes your full slow bus.
If I could get a train service to work, then I would, but I cannot...
I've said it before, but the train is much better. More comfortable, not as many people use it and is so much cheaper and tends to be on time. So if you know the time your train is, then you're more or less sorted. What's the chances of turning up to get a bus that runs to the bus timetable? The main downside for the trains is.... no Sunday service.
I could rant about the buses forever. I have nothing good to say about First Bus.
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