Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much money has been spent from the Bus Partnership Fund to date.
£25.8m has been allocated to date through the Bus Partnership Fund (BPF) and has been awarded to support local authorities, in partnership with bus operators and Regional Transport Partnerships, to deliver bus priority infrastructure.
Funding has been awarded through the BPF for Partnerships to undertake the projects outlined in Table 1 below. The approach in the first year of the Fund was to deliver infrastructure already identified that could be constructed in the short term. This includes making permanent previously temporary projects that Transport Scotland funded to help passengers and operators during Covid through our Bus Priority Rapid Deployment Fund (BPRDF).
Given the limited number of projects that were ready to implement we also provided funding for business development in the form of Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) studies and Outline Business Cases (OBC). This essential work will enable Partnerships to identify more projects that provide the most benefit for passengers, businesses and communities across Scotland while ensuring value for money.
Table 1: Bus Partnership Fund awarded projects as at September 2022
Partnership | Project Description |
Fife Bus Partnership | Leven and Kirkcaldy - Permanence of Bus Priority Rapid Deployment Fund (BPRDF) projects |
Cupar to Kirkcaldy Corridor – Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) study | |
Cupar to Kirkcaldy Corridor – Outline Business Case (OBC)* | |
Glenrothes to Leven corridor - STAG | |
Glenrothes to Leven corridor - OBC* | |
St Andrews to Kirkcaldy corridor - STAG | |
St Andrews to Kirkcaldy corridor - OBC* | |
Fife Bus Partnership | Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline - Permanence of BPRDF projects |
Cowdenbeath to Kincardine - STAG | |
Cowdenbeath to Kincardine - OBC* | |
Dunfermline to Ferrytoll - STAG | |
Dunfermline to Ferrytoll - OBC* | |
Tayside Bus Alliance | Bus priority corridors - STAG to evaluate 20 corridors |
North East Bus Alliance | North Corridor (Ellon to Gathdee) - STAG |
North Corridor - OBC* | |
North West Corridor (Inverurie to Aberdeen) - STAG | |
North West Corridor - OBC* | |
West Corridor (Westhill to Aberdeen) - STAG | |
West Corridor - OBC* | |
South Corridor (Stonehaven to Aberdeen) - STAG | |
South Corridor - OBC* | |
City Centre - STAG | |
City Centre - OBC* | |
Aberdeen Rapid Transit - STAG | |
Aberdeen Rapid Transit - OBC* | |
South College Street - Improvement works | |
Glasgow Bus Partnership | Hope Street - Upgrade to a bus avenue |
Howard Street - Improved waiting areas and placemaking | |
Paisley Town Centre - Junction Improvements for bus priority | |
Paisley Road West - STAG | |
Maryhill Road - STAG | |
Dumbarton Road - STAG | |
Pollokshaws Road - STAG | |
Great Western Road - STAG | |
Wider Bus Strategy - STAG | |
Forth Valley Bus Alliance | Stirling to Falkirk - STAG |
Glasgow Road - STAG | |
Grahams Road - STAG | |
A9/A872 - STAG | |
A908/B9096 - STAG | |
Edinburgh and South East Scotland | Bus Strategy - STAG |
North Corridor - OBC* | |
West Corridor - OBC* | |
Orbital Routes - OBC* | |
Orbital Routes - Rationalising bus stops | |
A1 Bus Lanes - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
A90 Bus Lanes - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
A89 Eastbound Bus Lane - Permanence of BPRDF project | |
A8 Westbound Bus Lane - Permanence of BPRDF project | |
A71 Hermiston Park & Ride signals for bus egress - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
Newcraighall/Kaimes/Gilmerton Bus Lanes - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
Melville Dykes/Hillhead Junction - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
Musselburgh and Prestonpans - Permanence of BPRDF projects | |
Ayrshire Bus Partnership | Two Urban Traffic Control extensions on Three Towns Corridor to prioritise buses |
Feasibility study - Pennyburn Roundabout bus lane extension | |
Feasibility study - John Finnie Street prioritisation signals | |
Highland BSIP | Completion of BPRDF Rose Street Bus Link |
Raigmore - Bus gate | |
Rose Street - Bus lane enforcement camera | |
Barn Church Road - Bus lane | |
Millburn Road - STAG appraisal | |
Millburn Road - OBC/Design* | |
B9006 - STAG appraisal | |
City Centre - Traffic light bus prioritisation for cross-city routes | |
A82 between Shore Street and Rose Street - STAG | |
North Kessock – STAG | |
North Kessock - OBC/design* | |
Highland BSIP | Blar Mhor - Bus-only link between health centre and new residential development |
Upper Achintore - Bus-only link between new residential development and Lochaber Road | |
Fort William STAG | |
Argyll & Bute | Oban Signalised Junctions for bus priority |
George Street/Dunollie Road - Consultation, Traffic Regulation Orders and Delivery | |
Midlothian | STAG for: A6094 Whitecraig-A6094 Eskbank |
West Lothian | STAG for: Alderstone Road: Physical priority, bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications |
Almondvale: Bus priority, junction modifications, parking controls | |
Deans: Bus priority, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications, parking controls | |
Knightsridge: Revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements | |
Ladywell: Revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications | |
Craigshill: Revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements | |
Dedridge: Revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements | |
Civic Centre: Junction modifications | |
Kirkton Campus: Bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications | |
A705: Physical bus priority, bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications | |
Bathgate / Boghall: Physical bus priority, bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications, parking controls | |
A89 west of Bathgate: Bus priority signals, parking controls | |
Harthill / Whitburn: Bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, parking controls | |
A7066/B792 Interchange: Junction modifications | |
Uphall / Broxburn: Bus priority signals, revised bus stop layouts/stop improvements, junction modifications, parking controls |
* subject to approval to proceed from previous stage