McColl's Group - Local Bus Services and Private Coach Hire in West Scotland

News Archive

26/07/2010 - NEW Monthly Ticket from 1st August 2010

From the 1st August 2010, our NEW Monthly Ticket will be introduced.

Travel for 28 Consecutive Days for £37.50 on any of our Services! Fantastic value for money especially for our regular passengers. Purchase on the bus from the driver and when using the ticket, show ID.

For more information, click here.

17/04/2010 - Glasgow Service Changes from 17th May 2010

From the 17th May 2010, we will be making various improvements to our Services operating to Glasgow including more peak time runs for commuters between Clydebank & Glasgow.

The 26 & 216 Services are to be replaced by the 204 and NEW 205 operating from Balloch to Glasgow. Also, the 215 Service will be extended from Helensburgh to Glasgow.

Our Operations Manager, John Gay "I am delighted we are now again extending our Glasgow Services to Balloch & Helensburgh and look forward to offering more choice to our passengers. I would also like to thank all our passengers supporting us into the expansion of Glasgow and will continue to improve Services."

Our General Manager, Liam McColl "We are committed to improving our Services offering our passengers competitive, reliable and safe buses. The support from the public since our expansion into Glasgow has been remarkable and would like to take this opportunity to thank you all."

If you have any comments or suggestions about any of our Services, contact John or Liam by e-mail: liam@mccolls.org.uk

For more information about the changes, go to the Annoucements page at the bottom for "Scheduled Services Changes".

Further to recent fares increase across many bus operators in the Glasgow area, McColl's will not be increasing fares it was announced today.

We recently ended our promotional All Day & Weekly ticket prices and made an increase but did not increase Single Fares. Many operators have had to increase Single Fares due to rising Fuel Costs amoungst other expenses.

McColl's do not need to increase as we have contigencies already in place to support the company through this temporary increase in expenses.

Many bus operators also use the current higher expenses as an excuse for a fares increase then in coming momths, the expenses lower but the higher fares stay in place.

Support McColl's and we will ensure Fair is FARE!

01/04/2010 - New Shopper Ticket, Family Day & Child Weekly Introduced

From the 1st April 2010, a new ASDA (Dumbarton) Shopper Return will be introduced for only £2 between Balloch & Alexandria. Great for passengers looking for a 2 journey ticket into ASDA for shopping!

Our new Family Day ticket is great value to get you out & about! The ticket is only £5 valid on all* Services for 2 Adult(s) & 2 Child(s). So whether you fancy visiting Loch Lomond or going into the City, McColl's will get you all there at a bargain fare!!

Also, a new Child Weekly will be introduced for only £4.50! This ticket will be valid as the current Adult Weekly on ANY* of our Services for a whole week!!

A Fares information leaflet has been produced for all our tickets on sale including the above, click here.

*Not Valid on SPT Services. Conditions apply.

22/03/2010 - Telephone lines upgrade on Tue 23rd March 2010 Mon 29th March 2010 (UPDATED)

Our Telephone system will be upgraded on Mon 29th March and may cause some disruption to answering customer calls. We expect lines to be down for 1 hour at some point in the morning but this may vary.

Our e-mail and website will be unaffected and staff will be able to communicate via these methods.

We apoligise for any inconvenience this may cause.

11/02/2010 - Fares Revision from Mon 1st March 2010

Due to increasing fuel costs, our Services will incur a slight fares revision.

As our promotion offer All Day & Weekly tickets are now finishing, these will increase to:

All Day Ticket £2.30              Weekly Ticket £10

These changes will be effective from Monday 1st March 2010.

08/02/2010 - Low Floor buses enter Service

Over the past few months, we have been renewing & increasing our fleet to include Low Floor buses (Disabled/Buggy access). We have now purchased 15 x Volvo B6 BLE Wright Body buses & 1 x Optare Excel.

Due to our recent expansion into Glasgow City Centre, we now use mostly low floor buses on Service into the city and made our annoucment in August 2009. We have now officially launched these buses into Service putting low floor buses for passengers of the Dumbarton areas for the first time.

We have also introduced low floor to our Service 4, 5, 8 & 208 Services creating easier transport for all our passengers.

We are committed to make public transport safe, reliable, value for money and easily accessible to all.

01/02/2010 - McColls Launch New Website!

You are looking at our brand new website for McColls - let us know what you think!