First Glasgow Dennis Trident/Plaxton President
Not really sure how this quite fits into the image of "Transforming Travel" but number 32998 (Y998NLF) is seen here looking very scruffy with its former red London paint showing through betraying its heritage of a former London bus. Stagecoach shows that a company can take care of its vehicles but in fairness to First, the Glasgow public do treat any service buses like mobile bins..... or things to draw/etch on.
Its here doing a turn on the number 2 service. Normally I'd welcome a decker on the 2 like manna from heaven but I can only assume that Parkhead depot was suffering an Enviro ma'bob shortage as on that day I also saw a Volvo B7L (Oh dear...) and a Volvo B7RLE (Interesting) on the service also. The 2 (Baillieston/Airdrie - Faifley) is the major east-west service across the city and has in the past been treated as some sort of showcase route. It was one of the first route to be improved - if that's the right word - by First's decision to run low-floor single-deckers on an increased frequency. It was also the first route to be run 24-hours a day in an experiment following the launch of the The Overground in the late nineties although changing economic circumstances generally have seen this canned.
It was also a service which a batch or Artics were ordered for which resulted in certain bus stop and junction improvements to accommodate them by the Glasgow City Council, These Artics were then promptly transferred elsewhere. Ho-hum hoots. Then it was supposed to be the service that the Enviro 500's were to be used on but at the time any new buses for Glasgow went to Larkfield and they were never used on the service that they were intended for. It's now run by Enviro 300's although despite them being fine buses and the service running at a less than ten-minute frequency in the peak hours, the capacity of these buses can be sorely tested and found wanting. It really needs to be double-decked although whether it'll happen is debateable.
First Glasgow Dennis Trident/Plaxton President
Not really sure how this quite fits into the image of "Transforming Travel" but number 32998 (Y998NLF) is seen here looking very scruffy with its former red London paint showing through betraying its heritage of a former London bus. Stagecoach shows that a company can take care of its vehicles but in fairness to First, the Glasgow public do treat any service buses like mobile bins..... or things to draw/etch on.
Its here doing a turn on the number 2 service. Normally I'd welcome a decker on the 2 like manna from heaven but I can only assume that Parkhead depot was suffering an Enviro ma'bob shortage as on that day I also saw a Volvo B7L (Oh dear...) and a Volvo B7RLE (Interesting) on the service also. The 2 (Baillieston/Airdrie - Faifley) is the major east-west service across the city and has in the past been treated as some sort of showcase route. It was one of the first route to be improved - if that's the right word - by First's decision to run low-floor single-deckers on an increased frequency. It was also the first route to be run 24-hours a day in an experiment following the launch of the The Overground in the late nineties although changing economic circumstances generally have seen this canned.
It was also a service which a batch or Artics were ordered for which resulted in certain bus stop and junction improvements to accommodate them by the Glasgow City Council, These Artics were then promptly transferred elsewhere. Ho-hum hoots. Then it was supposed to be the service that the Enviro 500's were to be used on but at the time any new buses for Glasgow went to Larkfield and they were never used on the service that they were intended for. It's now run by Enviro 300's although despite them being fine buses and the service running at a less than ten-minute frequency in the peak hours, the capacity of these buses can be sorely tested and found wanting. It really needs to be double-decked although whether it'll happen is debateable.