Where Do I Find Accessible Buses?

Catching a bus to the Town Centre is a popular means of transport for many people. However, those with disabilities or mobility problems don't always have the option of saying "When's the next bus"? Simply because not all buses are accessible. 

The following transport services provide a "best service routing" for their passengers with Disabilities:-

• Strathclyde Passenger Transport
  • Dial-a-bus
  • Ring 'n' Ride
• Hutchinson
• First

Dial-a-bus

Dial A Bus provides a service for people who are unable to use public transport or who have difficulty using everyday buses, the chance to enjoy a wide variety of social and recreational activities.

Ring 'n' Ride

Another service that SPT provides is Ring 'n' Ride. This is a new on demand bus service that picks passengers up from their homes or to as near to their homes as possible and takes them to their required destination.

It is designed to serve people and communities in North Lanarkshire who do not have a local bus service or have poor public transport links to amenities.  This service does not make trips where there is other direct bus services.

Hutchinson

Hutchinson Bus Company are based in Overtown, Wishaw and operate in the Wishaw, Motherwell and Hamilton area. They have 49 buses and 19 coaches and 90% of the buses have low floors to allow access for wheelchair users and people with mobility problems. As well as this, There is a special coach that is fully adapted with an electric ramp for wheelchair users.

Hutchinson buses were at the forefront of providing disabled access and their first accessible wheelchair bus was in 1997. The buses have access for one wheelchair passenger.

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