New bus service launched
Route set to provide transport for staff and visitors to businesses
A NEW bus service is to be launched to help staff and visitors reach businesses built in recent years in the East End and South Lanarkshire.
The Clyde Gateway service called CG1 will offer hourly buses between Rutherglen Town Centre and Carmyle Station by way of Shawfield, Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and the Clyde Gateway business park in Auchenshuggle.
It will start on Monday and will run every Monday to Friday between 6am and 6pm to serve various commercial, office and industrial developments.
Ian Manson, chief executive of the regeneration agency, said: “Ever increasing numbers of local residents are obtaining job and training opportunities across the Clyde Gateway area and the main aim of the new bus service is to make it easier for them to get from their homes to their places of work in an affordable and comfortable way.
“At the same time, the route of CG1 links to and from four railway stations at Rutherglen, Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and Carmyle and in doing so it improves the already excellent options available to those who come here to work by public transport.
“We have been working quietly behind the scenes with our partners for some time on a range of ideas for better and sustainable transport options to support and complement the huge investment that has already been made or is in the pipeline for the coming years.
“This specially branded bus, which we have purchased through the Bus Investment Fund managed by Transport Scotland, will serve a number of locations such as Rutherglen Industrial Estate and Clyde Gateway East that are not presently covered by existing services, as well as offering a direct link from the Athletes Village to a whole range of other new developments right across the area.”
The service, which will be run by Community Transport Glasgow on behalf of Clyde Gateway, is guaranteed to be in place for the next four years.
The first service will leave from Queen Street in Rutherglen at 6am each day, arriving at Carmyle Station after a journey lasting 26 minutes with the first of the return journeys being at 6.27am.
The service, which will be free for the first three weeks, will run to a regular hourly timetable with the last departures being 6pm from Rutherglen and 6.27pm from Carmyle.
Short journeys will cost £1 and longer trips £1.50.