Scotland's beleaguered bus networks are in turmoil. For years, they have suffered death by a thousand cuts with once-reliable routes lost, services reduced and fares often set far too high – while millions of passengers bear the brunt.
Buses remain far and away the most common method of public transport – and are involved in 75 per cent of all passenger journeys. Why, then, does it always seem like the industry is the poor relation in the public transport mix?
It’s an issue that the Easdale brothers, owners of bus company McGill’s, are right to raise. McGill’s are among operators who have made drastic cuts to services but the Easdales say this is a crisis of the Scottish Government’s making, claiming ministers have neglected the bus sector in favour of more glamorous, big-ticket items like nationalised ScotRail.
