Public Transport Campaigner £23,460 pro rata (£18,768 for 4 days a week)Working from shared premises in Glasgow 12 month contractCommencing summer 2019 Are you passionate about improving public transport for everyone? Do you see better public transport a key way to deliver social and environmental justice for our city’s region? Do you want to support…

On Thursday 24 January 2019, more than eight months after first submitting our petition to Glasgow City Council, we were finally invited to discuss the our concerns with Councillors at their Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community and Citizen Engagement City Policy Committee. Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community and Citizen Engagement City Policy Committee – Thu, 24th Jan 2019 –…

On 3 October 2018, the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy & Connectivity (REC) Committee heard evidence on the bus sections of the new Transport Bill. They did not invite any passenger groups, so we worked with Friends of the Earth Scotland to organise a massive protest outside Parliament calling for Publicly-owned Buses for Everyone in Scotland….

In April – May 2018, Glasgow City Council ran the BE GOOD Public Transport Challenge consultation. We wanted to make sure they realised just how BAD our city’s public transport is, so we got thousands of people to respond online. On Friday 11 May 2018, to coincide with the consultation deadline, we took our 38…

In autumn / winter 2017, Transport Scotland (the Scottish Government’s national transport agency), ran four consultations relating to our campaign and offering opportunities for improving the dire state of Glasgow’s public transport. Get Glasgow Moving responded to them all, each time stating the importance of solving these issues in parallel and not in isolation. We…

In autumn / winter 2017, Transport Scotland (the Scottish Government’s national transport agency), ran four consultations relating to our campaign and offering opportunities for improving the dire state of Glasgow’s public transport. Get Glasgow Moving responded to them all, each time stating the importance of solving these issues in parallel and not in isolation. We…

In autumn / winter 2017, Transport Scotland (the Scottish Government’s national transport agency), ran four consultations relating to our campaign and offering opportunities for improving the dire state of Glasgow’s public transport. Get Glasgow Moving responded to them all, each time stating the importance of solving these issues in parallel and not in isolation. We…

In autumn / winter 2017, Transport Scotland (the Scottish Government’s national transport agency), ran four consultations relating to our campaign and offering opportunities for improving the dire state of Glasgow’s public transport. Get Glasgow Moving responded to them all, each time stating the importance of solving these issues in parallel and not in isolation. We…

On 26 April 2017, in the run-up to the Glasgow City Council elections on 4 May, we organised a public transport hustings at Renfield St. Stephen’s to hear how different party’s candidates would tackle Glasgow’s public transport problems. The event was chaired by Paul Sweeney (before his election as Labour MP for Glasgow North East…

In April 2017, in the run-up to the Glasgow City Council elections on 4 May, we launched an online petition calling for ‘World-class transport for Glasgow’ with 38 Degrees. The petition took off, gaining more than 3,000 signatures before the elections, forcing Glasgow’s public transport crisis onto all our politicians’ agendas. You can still sign…

On Thursday 19 January 2017, we supported Unite Community’s Haud the Bus campaign presenting their petition on Regulation of Bus Services to the Scottish Parliament.   David Eyre of Unite and Ian Taylor co-author of Building a World-Class Bus System for Britain presented compelling evidence to the Public Petitions Committee.

Campaigners are to lobby councillors at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport demanding affordable, joined-up public transport in Glasgow. And the Get Glasgow Moving campaign is also taking the issue to Holyrood, backing a Scottish Parliament petition to bring bus services across Scotland back under public regulation. Get Glasgow Moving was launched in September at a packed…

On 15 September 2016 we held a public meeting at Renfield St. Stephen’s to launch the campaign. Attended by over one hundred people, a panel of local activists presented the many problems with Glasgow’s public transport, before discussing potential solutions with members of the audience. The event was chaired by one of the Get Glasgow…