On Monday 19 October, members of Living Rent tenants and community union met with Councillors Ricky Bell and Angus Millar to discuss pathways to establish night bus routes in Glasgow.
The meeting was the direct result of members’ attempts to establish communication with Councillor Ricky Bell, highlighted by 40 members storming his Govan surgery on Saturday 19 September.
During the 19 October meeting, Councillors met our demands and confirmed funding for a scoping study to bring back a night bus in Glasgow. Coming from the Bus Infrastructure Fund, the funding will provide a detailed assessment of the needed night bus routes and is expected to be completed by September 2027.
This represented a significant improvement in the timeline to deliver a scoping study to bring back night buses in Glasgow. In previous communications, the night bus scoping study was declared to be ‘difficult to carry out’ due to lack of funding, which could be accessed from the Visitor Levy fund only until early 2028.
This victory proves that organising our communities is essential to pressure our elected representatives to deliver the needed improvements for our nighttime bus network.
Despite this win, our Bring Our Buses Back campaign is far from finished! Our ultimate goal is to win public ownership of buses in the city, and we're not giving up.
If you want to hear more about Living Rent and how we plan to win our demands for the city, join this year's first Glasgow-wide conference, where we will celebrate our wins this year, launch our manifesto for the 2027 local elections and strategise for the year ahead to win our demands for the city.
