Summary
BEFORE we go paying to prop up a luxury bus service to get people to Glasgow's hospitals perhaps we should look at why the existing public transport connections, or lack of them, and how closing local facilities have in turn shifted a cost from running a small hospital (the health board) to travelling to a large one (roads and public transport). It might also be interesting to see how the cost per passenger on such a dial-a-ride scheme would compare with simply using a taxi.
Hyndland Station could deliver many of the drivers and passengers whose cars now fill the roughly surfaced overflow parking at Gartnavel and it would work with current platforms and train service but for the miserable and indirect and unsigned route you have to pick through those mucky car-parks - and there isn't even a basic promotional tool like a train departure display at the hospital main entrance. Strathclyde Passenger Transport say that major work is needed, including ramps and other modern access facilities, but the pragmatic and immediate solution is much simpler and can work for many whose cars now clog up the site and obliterate the former tranquil parkland setting.See the full content of this document
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Easier Ways to Get to Glasgow's Hospitals
At the Royal Infirmary a vast amount has been spent shoe-horning a car-park on to the cramped site for a few hundred who come in by ...
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