Things to see in the East part of Glasgow

As I arrived in not that long in the beautiful city of Glasgow, I had to adapt to public transportation. Now that I know some stuff let me share with you my newly acquired knowledge.

Double decker bus, First Bus

Bus

In Glasgow, you have not one but several companies of buses. They have their own lines and tickets you will buy for one will not work for the other.

 

 

The First Bus company (it is the name of the company):

You have an application that you can download and use for buying tickets. You can buy your tickets directly on the bus, by card (contactless) or by cash (they do not give change). The common ticket is 2,30£ for the city centre (2£ on the app).

The McGills company:

You also have an application to download and use to buy tickets. You also can pay by card (contactless again) or by cash. The common ticket is around 2,50£ and 3£.
You have to now that you do not choose a company, it depends on where you want to go.

Subway

The subway in Glasgow is quite easy to understand. The company is called SPT and they have 15 stations around the city. It makes a « circle » and you have the « inner circle » and the « outer circle ». To be concise, one goes in one way and the other in the other way…

The single ticket is 1,70£ but most of the time they propose returns tickets that are 3,20£.

Trains

You can take the train to move around the city. The company is ScotRail. You have several stations in Glasgow that are quite important. It is very common. They have a regular timetable and you can have a train every 15 minutes in the peak hours. You also can take it to travel around Scotland.

Nextbike

Bike

If you prefer to travel the city in the fresh air (or humid air as you want) you also can rent a bike provided by Nextbike. They are very useful and you can cross the city in 30 minutes (you have road fitted out for it). The system is common: you sign-up for a membership and you can hire a bike on every checkpoint. The annual membership is 60£.

 

Taxis

Finally, you can take a cab everywhere in Glasgow with Taxis of Glasgow. They are not very expensive, they actually are almost the same price as Uber. But Black cabs are more fancy don’t you think? And Scottish taxi drivers are the best!

I hope this would help you to not be too lost when you will come to Glasgow!
Now that you know how to get around Glasgow, go find the bast place to view :

Things to see in the East part of Glasgow

Things to see in the West part of Glasgow