Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce priority bus lanes on the national trunk road network around Greater Glasgow, which was first proposed in its 2019 Programme for Government.
The second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2) was published in December 2022, which marked the completion of over 3 years of detailed technical appraisal. It will inform the Scottish Government’s transport investment programme over the next 20 years and will help to deliver the vision, priorities and outcomes set out in the National Transport Strategy.
Recommendation 14 of the STPR2 advises that bus priority interventions are implemented within Scotland’s cities and towns where congestion is highest. In the case of the motorway network around Glasgow, Transport Scotland will continue to progress plans for the M8, M77 and M80, considering actively managed hard shoulders for buses like those already operating on the M90/M9 Queensferry Corridor and on the M8 eastbound approach to Hermiston Gait.
The STPR2 Delivery Plan is in development and will provide further insight on the programming of the recommendations including those interventions detailed in recommendation 14.