- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what regulations there are to prevent overcrowding on buses.
Answer
It is the responsibility of drivers to ensure that their vehicles do not exceed their carrying capacity. The Public Service Vehicles (Carrying Capacity) Regulations 1984 state that nobody should drive, or permit to be driven, a vehicle if the number of seated or standing passengers exceeds the number permitted.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the satisfaction levels are of bus passengers.
Answer
Scotland level figures are available from the Scottish Household Survey. Figures are published online as part of the SHS Transport: Local Area Analysis web tables. Table 16 includes a breakdown by Local Authority and Regional Transport Partnership, as well as Scotland level figures. This can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Transport-Travel/PubTranAcrScot.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bus routes served the Moodiesburn area on 21 February 2011.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold information on bus service registrations. All local bus services must be registered with the Traffic Commissioner. The Traffic Commissioner can be contacted at Office of the Traffic Commissioner, The Stamp Office, 10 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of adults travel to work by bus, also broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency.
Answer
(a) Local authority figures are available from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS). Figures are published online as part of the SHS Transport: Local Area Analysis web tables. Table 1 shows the relevant data and can found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Transport-Travel/PubTranAcrScot.
(b) Although the SHS has a large sample that covers the whole of Scotland, it has some geographical limitations because of the sample sizes in small local authorities and because it is designed to be representative only at national and local authority level. Results are not available at Scottish Parliamentary Constituency level.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what penalties there are for bus companies that do not meet the terms of their contractual agreements.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not have contractual agreements with bus companies for the provision of services. We do not hold information on the penalty clauses in contracts between bus companies and third parties, which would be a matter for them.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bus passengers there have been in Moodiesburn in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not collected or held by Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation bus companies are required to undertake before altering a route.
Answer
Bus companies are not required to undertake any consultation before altering a route. However, they are required to notify relevant local authorities of service changes 14 days prior to submitting their application to the Traffic Commissioner. Bus companies are required to submit applications for service changes to the Traffic Commissioner 56 days prior to the date on which the changes are due to take place.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bus passengers there have been in each year since 1999.
Answer
This data is collected by the Department for Transport and is published annually in Scottish Transport Statistics. The figures can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/12/17120002/41.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that bus services in the Moodiesburn area would have been better organised if the proposed members’ Bill on the regulation of bus services, which was lodged on 1 December 2009, had been passed.
Answer
The Scottish Government is not in a position to speculate on how the proposed members'' Bill may have affected bus services in Moodiesburn.
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the satisfaction levels are of bus passengers in the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this data. Although the Scottish Household Survey has a large sample that covers the whole of Scotland, it has some geographical limitations because of the sample sizes in small local authorities and because it is designed to be representative only at national and local authority level.
