Quality Bus Stops Campaign

Scotland is faced with an aging population and a growing proportion of bus users who are frail or suffer from some form of disability. The accessibility of public transport will have to be improved, and fundamental to this are improvements to the pedestrian environment at and around bus stops. Walking and waiting at stops are essential components of public transport trips.

In 2005 a Living Streets survey of bus stops along a busy route in Edinburgh showed that basic features such as adequate shelter, seating, and raised boarding areas were often absent, although parking obstructions at stops have been largely eliminated. Our Quality Bus Stops Campaign aims to build on this work to persuade Local Authorities that bus stop improvements are essential to improve the image of bus transport and encourage people to use it.

What you can do

In London, requirements for improvements have been set as part of all their bus priority corridor improvement schemes, and Living Streets Scotland would like to see similar standards adopted by local authorities here.

If this is something that concerns you, then please consider writing to your local authority

• highlighting the need for minimum basic standards to be set for facilities at bus stops, including shelter seating and improved access from raised boarding areas
• asking them to establish and fund programmes of improvements designed to meet those standards

Please let us know how you get on.

Quality Bus Stop Reports