By the way, I can confirm that West Coast Motors HQ did see my video when it came out and amazingly gifted me a couple of Glasgow day tickets! Thank you very much, West Coast Motors! 😍
Thoroughly enjoyed your wee video and it is a route I must try. So too would the X10/A to Aberfoyle - a nice wee day out! Back in the day as students in Bearsden, we would either hitch or catch the bus to Drymen by way of the Carbeth Inn and on through Croftamie. A few drinks in The Salmon Leap (long gone) in Drymen before heading back down the A809. The bus would pass the then start of The Devil's Pulpit Walk - long before it became 'famous'!! Would love to see more of these interesting wee local routes from Glasgow.
Used to get the 17 Citybus to work, maybe 15 years ago. Special drivers, we called it the "The Mad Mental Bastard Bus". Raced the First buses, opened the door and screamed at cyclists. Loved it 😂
Brings back the memories when I lived at Wolfson Hall which is inside Science Park, Maryhill. Commute to the main campus would be determined by looking at the First bus / WCM / Midland Bluebird app and see if 60(A) / X10(A) / 17 running up Maryhill Rd would arrive first, or if 15 running up Bearsden Rd would arrive first, whilst also taking the amount of time needed to walk to the opposite side of Science Park into account. And if I end up on the Maryhill Rd buses, I'll have to determine if I can make a swift connection onto 8 / 90 further up the road, or do I stay on the X10(A) / 17 to get off at the Great Western Rd corner and walk the rest of the way to Uni. Yeah, was a lot of thought that went into minimizing travel time. My friend and I even did races lol.
I study at Glasgow uni, and I also live by bearsden I love the 15 and the 17 I would’ve moved out of it weren’t for the 15 and 17. PLUS they give you change they are always clean, less crowded than the 60, 60A and overall better by far.
Nice video :) ngl it's great to see the 15 come back from being cancelled when I first came to uni to now being upgraded to every 30 min M-F. The U22 bus pass has definitely helped it as well tbh, as previously when you lived on Wolfson Campus, the Uni would fund a First Bus annual pass for you, which meant you would just take FG 8/60 instead of the 15, hence why it was in a way, probably being used so little as well compared to now. Although great video :) (Although imo while 15 is nice, FG's 1A is better xD)
@@SomeoneExplores Ehh the 1B has this "I've made it, whatever" attitude when it gets to Helensburgh. Like don't get me wrong, it's a great route esp going out past Cardross, but when it gets to Helensburgh, it only serves the main street and is like "I can't be bothered doing any other part of Helensburgh", while the 1A actually properly serves most of the Vale of Leven area like Renton, Bonhill and Jamestown. Just in my opinion tho lol xD
I don't know if I would call it the best bus route in Glasgow because it doesn't have a service on Sundays, and that might be a pain for people (especially old people) who want to get transited with Milngavie/Bearsden and Westend. The 15 makes a great connection with these areas, but it's a shame that it doesn't have a service on Sundays.
Way I'm looking at it McGills & First busses have the majority of the bus routes in and a round Glasgow which is a shame considering that these company's have a te3ndancy of changing routes & getting rid of others due to the change of route suits the company due to it being more profitable. Like the McGills 17 that used to go from paisley to Glasgow city centre going past the kelvingrove art gallery axed due to it (supposedly) wasn't profitable enough, now if you want to goto the kelvingrove its either the underground & whatever length of walk or unsure which first bus
Is there a bus that goes from the south-side of glasgow to the west-end that doesn't go via the city centre? if not - there should be - would be a boon for students travelling from the south-side burbs to glasgow uni.
