Bus Station Redevelopment,

Partick BUS STATION REDEVELOPMENT, Glasgow

Location: Glasgow Regional Transport Authority Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT)

Completion: 2018 commissioned the redevelopment of Partick Bus station as part of their

Value: £2.21M strategy to invest in and promote multi-modal connectivity.

Service: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Lead Design Consultant, Contract Administrator, Having previously invested in the reconstruction of between NEC3 Project Manager 2009-15, which integrates heavy rail with subway, the existing bus station Sector: transport formed a functional but uninspiring first impression at the entrance to a Client: SPT contemporary transport interchange. This project provided SPT with the Contractor: LUDDON CONSTRUCTION LTD opportunity not only to promote multi modal transport connectivity but SPT tasked the team to design the new contemporary bus station facility to improve “Partick Interchange is an important Landscape: AUSTIN-SMITH:LORD to improve the setting for the current facilities, enhance the passenger enclosed bus station facility: the passenger experience. At the heart of the integrated for West Glasgow The layout required to serve the current project is the bus apron, the design of which Civil/ Structural engineering/transportation: experience, address health and safety issues and stitch the interchange into serving one of ’s busiest and most Curtins the urban fabric by improvements to the public realm. service patterns and create capacity for future is crucial to ensure bus movements can be densely populated areas. SPT investment in growth without the requirement for on-site bus accommodated, and passengers can alight/ SERVICES: SVM Partick and the new facilities will significantly regulators. The station was to be un-manned. board safely. The focus in the early stage of the improve the bus passenger experience. Cost Consultant: Currie & Brown Ensure that there is segregation of bus project was to design the operational space to bulding services: SVM movement from all the other vehicles/ achieve the optimum functional solution within “The introduction of bespoke high quality pedestrians/cyclists. the existing site and context constraints. shelters providing proper protection from Improve the operational safety and security key bus apron design issues: the weather, real time passenger information through CCTV coverage of the bus area. displays, CCTV, and improved LED lighting as Provide a contemporary, comfortable, quality • Utilisation of a Drive in, Drive out solution well as better provision for wheelchairs with waiting environment to attract an increase in (DIDO) developed to accommodate high kerbs offering level entry to the buses, bus passenger numbers service frequency. makes the station much more attractive and Improve the information provision • Recreate an “Island” solution to achieve accessible to the whole community.” for passengers commensurate with the required number of stances as no more Charles Hoskins (SPT Senior Director) a contemporary interchange facility than 3 stances could be achieved along incorporating real time customer information. the apron perimeter. Provide an affordable solution for SPT both for • Improve passenger safety: the number of capital works and on-going operational and crossings to the “Island” is reduced from maintenance (revenue) expenditure. two to one. • Deter pedestrians crossing the bus apron, Whilst the project involves the integration and segregation is provided by a combination enhancement of the public realm surrounding of 1.1m railings to perimeters and full the Interchange promoting connectivity height glazing to bus stances. to other parts of the city and environs, the • Dedicated one way taxi/car/van lane primary driver for the project was to create a is provided between Vine Street and

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Before Redevelopment After Redevelopment

interchange frontage to tie in with the recently completed public realm upgrade works by Glasgow City Council.

The existing unsightly bus shelters have been replaced by bespoke architect designed bus stances. The design solution created by lead design consultant Austin-Smith:Lord increases the number of stances by 20% to accommodate increased bus patronage associated with the recent opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and anticipated growth resulting from recent and forecast development within the area.

The new bespoke bus stances are designed to current best practice and provide modern Before Redevelopment high quality waiting space that fully integrates lighting, CCTV, seating, and customer stances is 3.2m, providing a sense of space not evident in similar Merkland Street to segregate the bus footpath provides a quality edge treatment information technology. The extensive installations. The curved glass ends to the stances make historical apron and reduce opportunity for conflict segregating pedestrians from the car park. structural glazing is connected to an elegant reference to the curved frontages of the much loved and fondly between buses and 3rd parties. • Two pedestrian crossing points are steel framing creates a transparency that aids remembered Glasgow trams. The curved ends allied with the polished introduced along the north of the site to wayfinding and surveillance. As the roof is granite plinths achieve a perception of high quality. Whilst the design The design aim for the public realm: facilitate pedestrian movement to and from highly visible from neighbouring properties, aim is to create a transparency through the stances, solid advertising Dumbarton Road; across Merkland Street the design deliberately creates an attractive panels are integrated within stances 1-3 providing a revenue stream for • Clear, continuous and easily negotiated and Vine Street, reducing traffic ingress curved profile which for stances 1-3 cantilevers SPT. pedestrian route around the site perimeters and egress speeds. out to accentuate their prominence within providing access to each of the stances, • Increased cycle storage provision (private their surroundings and providing additional The redevelopment of Partick Bus Station creates an attractive visual the station and the taxi rank, local and rented) is included to the southern shelter at entrances. The cantilevered roof frontage to the Rail/Subway station building achieving an integrated After Redevelopment businesses and premises. perimeter of the development in order to form is further emphasized by the integrating multi modal transport solution. It is one of Glasgow’s (and therefore • One crossing point is introduced between promote active travel. of continuous feature LED strip lighting to soffit Central Scotland’s) busiest interchanges serving one of Scotland’s the southern footpath and the enclosed edges. most densely populated districts; connecting to the Riverside Museum, island. This arrangement aims to deter The public realm linking the new bus station Glasgow Harbour, Glasgow University, Kelvingrove and bus routes pedestrians accessing the bus apron area. with the existing interchange and surrounding Glazed aluminium framed auto doors at to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The project demonstrates SPT • Continuous edge treatment (railings, streets is dramatically transformed with the stances are activated on bus arrival by commitment to invest in the creation of a high quality of environment landscaping and seating) between installation of new granite paving, seating, induction loops concealed within the bus to meet today’s passenger expectations and encourage bus travel as a Morrison’s car park and the southern trees and lighting which is extended along the apron slab. The internal height of the bus main transport mode in the west of Scotland. Partick Bus Station Redevelopment, Glasgow

The key to project success was the vehicles, segregating pedestrians from the streets were maintained necessitated a performance of the bus apron to ensure bus bus manouvering area and creating improved complex phasing strategy that was developed movements could be accommodated. To road crossing points. New Lighting within by Austin-Smith:Lord and executed by mitigate the risk associated the proposed the bus station and stances also promotes an Principal Contractor Luddon Ltd. design not achieving SPT’s operational improvement to public safety. requirements, extensive auto tracking was The project was constructed in 11 months undertaken during the design process and In order to maintain access to the Rail/Subway and delivered using NEC3 Option A form validated by actual off site bus trials on a mock station and adjoining properties (residential of contract which assisted in promoting a bus apron to the geometry proposed. and retail) and ensure routes from adjoining collaborative approach to delivery.

The development decluttered the existing bus station facility achieving an ease in wayfinding and providing a barrier free environment for pedestrians/passengers with sensory impairments. Real Time information is successfully integrated within the bus stances with voice address announcing bus arrival to assist visually impaired passengers. Extensive consultation was undertaken with the local accessibility panel in order that the designers could appreciate the issues that a variety of disabilities encounter. SPT also liaised closely with the local community during the construction stage who offered support and advice for the project throughout the process.

The design team were proactive in assisting SPT with value engineering throughout all project stages resulting in a reduction in project value from £3.28m to a final account figure of £2.21m.

From project outset, a significant emphasis was placed on improving safety in and around the bus station. The design achieves this by segregating bus movement from other