Traffic Assessment - Renfrewshire Council

Public Transport
2.12 Conditions 13 and 55 of the PPP required improvements to public transport services and park and
ride to be provided and these were established by the ‘Public Transport Study’ (2011) and ‘Park
and Ride Demand Study’ (2011) respectively. The outcome of each report is summarised below.
Bishopton Railway Station
2.13 Bishopton is an intermediate station on the electrified Inverclyde Line linking Gourock and Wemyss
Bay with Paisley and Glasgow Central. In daytime on weekdays and Saturdays Bishopton is
served by three trains an hour in each direction between Glasgow Central and Gourock and a
fourth between Glasgow and Wemyss Bay.
2.14 Bishopton Station has a large car park with 117 parking spaces including five designated for
parking by disabled drivers. There is a second area of parking on the east side of the station
forecourt that takes total public provision to 136 spaces on the north side of the railway, and a more
recent additional 80 spaces have been create in a formal car-park on BAE land to the south of the
railway.
2.15 There are bus/rail interchange facilities at Bishopton in the form of a bus turning circle and bus
stance with passenger shelter on the north side of the railway at the entrance to the main station
car park. There is a limited network of local bus services. SPT provides financial support for two
local bus services operated by Scottish Travel in daytime on Mondays to Saturdays using a single
accessible vehicle. The two services both operate hourly – Service 520 is the Bishopton Local
Service and Service 521 provides a link to the Bridgewater Shopping Centre in Erskine. In
addition, commercial Scottish Travel Service X22 provides an hourly service between Greenock,
Port Glasgow, Bishopton and Clydebank.
Park and Ride
2.16 Following the outcome of the ‘Park and Ride Demand Study’ (JMP, 2011), it is proposed to provide
300 park and ride spaces to the west of the railway line by completion of the whole Bishopton Park
development, with the expansion taking place in stages to correspond with growing demand as the
development proceeds. This increase in parking spaces forms part of this application and the
proposed layout is provided in Appendix D.
Local Bus Services
2.17 The railway station is the focal point for public transport in Bishopton. The First ScotRail Inverclyde
service from Gourock and Wemyss Bay to Paisley and Glasgow Central provides the principal
means of access to the village by public transport.
2.18 When the examination of bus services was first undertaken in 2005, there was a limited network of
local bus services providing little more than a local distributor service and a link to Erskine.
2.19 At a meeting on 8 th August 2011, SPT advised that Service 521 was to be diverted via Mainshill in
Erskine in order to replace another bus service that is to be withdrawn. The implication is that the
vehicle operating Services 520/521 will become fully utilised and there will no longer be any scope
for using it to extend Service 520 into the new development.
2.20 Service X22 operates hourly in each direction in daytime on weekdays and Saturdays and there
are four journeys each way on Sundays. First and departures towards Clydebank are at 07:30 and
17:30 whilst the first and last buses towards Greenock are at 08:25 and 18:25.
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Proposed Village Core Development