The Number 38 bus service threads a north-south path through Edinburgh, far from the picture postcard version of Scotland’s capital.<\/p>\n
It serves a college, retail park and two hospitals, but the amount of time it takes to travel this route is getting longer.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s bus industry has warned that the growing number of vehicles on the road, congestion at peak times and not enough priority measures for buses is making its services less attractive.<\/p>\n
The average speed for a bus in Scotland is now 11.3mph, down from 14.9mph two years ago, according to industry data.<\/p>\n
Lothian Buses’ 38 crosses eight of Edinburgh’s major roads and is one of the services worst affected by congestion in a city known for its reliable bus service.<\/p>\n
It is the waiting at these traffic pinch points which can cause stress for shop worker – and number 38 regular – Nico Reverie.<\/p>\n
“You can obviously see what the hold ups are, but there’s not a lot you can do about it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It is frustrating when there are delays as I need to make a connecting bus so you’re sometimes not sure if it is going to happen. <\/p>\n
“I need to allow more time to get to work so I’m not late.<\/p>\n
“It is just the traffic really, otherwise it is a decent service.”<\/p>\n
Research commissioned by trade body CPT Scotland shows there has been a significant increase in running times of the Number 38 service over the last 20 years – with rising traffic volumes, a reduction in speed limits and cycle lanes all contributing to this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Number 38 bus service threads a north-south path through Edinburgh, far from the picture postcard version of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-330673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}