BUSES

Bus services provide the most effective and efficient form of motorised road transport and are essential in providing socially necessary transport for people without access to a car.  A key strand of the Regional Transport Strategy is to improve bus services throughout the north east, to encourage modal shift and thereby reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, improve accessibility and utilise road space more effectively.

Nestrans is a member of the North East Quality Partnership for Public Transport, also signed by Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City Councils, First Aberdeen and Stagecoach Bluebird.  In recent years this partnership has delivered improvements to bus services, upgrades to the quality of the bus fleet, including more modern engines which are less polluting, low floor vehicles, real time passenger information, improved waiting and interchange facilities and raised kerbs at bus shelters to allow level boarding.

 To take forward the proposals for bus improvements in the coming years, Nestrans has produced a Bus Action Plan, in partnership with local authorities and operators.

Relevant links

Final Draft Bus Action Plan (Vol 1 and Vol 2)