2025-26 Bus Infrastructure Fund Tier 2 Allocations to Local Authorities on behalf of their voluntary Bus Partnerships
Aberdeen City Council (North East Bus Alliance)
Upgrade and expansion of Real Time Passenger Information across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Implement upgrade and expansion of bus stop real time passenger information (RTPI) provision at key locations across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.
Stage: Construction
Funding Awarded: £455,000
Glasgow City (Glasgow City Region Bus Partnership)
Pollokshaws Road Bus Corridor - Design
Extended bus lanes will be provided for the majority of the route with a new section of segregated busway alongside Pollok Park. Within the city centre, buses will connect to the route via Hope Street and along Cathedral Street towards the Royal hospital at Townhead. Preliminary design, consultation & data analysis.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £300,000
Pollokshaws Road Bus Corridor - Bus signal priority (AI)
Artificial Intelligence Bus Priority Pilot and conversion to virtual loops.
Stage: Design & construction
Funding Awarded: £490,000
Paisley Road West Bus and Active Travel Corridor - Design
The proposal is a series of full corridor bus priority and active travel interventions along Paisley Road West from Paisley to Hope Street in Glasgow City Centre. Preliminary design, consultation & data analysis.
Construction: Design
Funding Awarded: £450,000
Glasgow City Centre Hope Street Improvements
Improvement of this regional bus/rail interchange point in Glasgow City Centre - widening of the footway, enhanced passenger waiting areas with larger high quality bus shelters, real time passenger information signage, junction upgrades including new traffic signals with upgraded pedestrian crossing facilities and bus priority alongside public realm and carriageway resurfacing. Finalisation of tender documents to enable the project to be construction ready in 2026-27.
Stage: To take to construction ready
Funding Awarded: £30,000
Dundee City (Tayside Bus Alliance)
Dundee - Arbroath Road and Lochee Road - Transformational Corridors
Design of a 'sustainable transport corridor' along the Lochee and Arbroath Road arterial routes in Dundee. This new design will incorporate and co-ordinate previous concepts for active travel and bus priority along these corridors.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £745,000
Perth & Kinross (Tayside Bus Alliance)
Perth - Dunkeld Road - Sustainable Transport Corridor
Preliminary design of corridor wide active travel and bus priority plus Outline Business Case.
Stage: Design and business case
Funding Awarded: £335,350
Tayside Bus Alliance Project Management Support
Project management support for Tayside Bus Alliance projects.
Stage: Project management support
Funding Awarded: £48,000
Angus (Tayside Bus Alliance)
Angus - Dundee - Corridor bus stop upgrades
Angus corridor bus shelter / bus stop improvements. Design and construction for the upgrade of 26 bus stop locations.
Stage: Design & construction
Funding Awarded: £212,550
Dundee City (Tayside Bus Alliance)
Ninewells Hospital Bus Infrastructure Improvements
Expansion and upgrade to bus stops and waiting area including lighting and Real Time Passenger Information
Stage: Design & construction
Funding Awarded: £112,000
Perth & Kinross (Tayside Bus Alliance)
Perth South Street Bus Gate and Bus Infrastructure Improvements
Design and implement a bus gate between Speygate and Tay Street on South Street and install a camera to monitor compliance and determine if camera enforcement is necessary. Widen the north footway between Scott Street and King Edward Street to facilitate the relocation and upgrade of the four existing heavily used bus stances including shelters which will also contain display screens with electronic timetables.
Stage: Design and construction
Funding Awarded: £340,000
Highland (Highland Bus Services Improvement Partnership)
Millburn Road Corridor
Reporting of the Strategic and Economic Dimensions of the Outline Business Case alongside concept design, cost and modelling work for bus priority and active travel measures along the Millburn Road Corridor. Construction of the improvement of bus priority through Eastgate Junction.
Stage: Design & Construction
Funding Awarded: £250,000
Highland (Highland Bus Services Improvement Partnership)
Fort William - Blar Mhor Bus Only Link
Bus only link between the Fort William Health Centre and new residential development. Finalisation of planning, legal and design to enable the project to be construction ready in 2026-27.
Stage: To take to construction ready
Funding Awarded: £50,000
Fort William – Upper Achintore Bus only Link
New bus only link between new residential development and Lochaber Road enabling both areas to be served by the same service thus removing the need for an additional bus and improved connectivity between the two residential areas and Fort William town centre. Finalisation of planning, legal and design to enable the project to be construction ready in 2026-27.
Stage: To take to construction ready
Funding Awarded: £100,000
Fort William – A82 / Nevis Terrace / Middle Street Junction Reconfiguration (incl. signalisation with bus priority)
Reconfiguration of the A82 / Middle Street / Nevis Terrace junction (incl. bus priority signals). This project would reconfigure the junction between the A82 / Nevis Terrace / Middle Street involving the removal of the central reserve to allow buses to turn right from Middle Street to the A82 and from the A82 to Nevis Terrace, providing access to the bus station for southbound A82 traffic. Buses from Middle Street would also be able to travel straight across the junction to Nevis Terrace and onto the bus station. The junction would be signalised to provide bus priority for these movements, removing any delay from this right turn movement. Baseline report, detailed design, modelling and stakeholder engagement.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £200,000
Mobility Hub Implementation Plan
Plan to create a network of mobility hubs tailored to Highland's needs to promote sustainable transport. Evaluation of usage at potential mobility hub sites (Dalcross, UHI campus, Torvean, and Caley Thistle) and explore multi-modal options like park-and-ride with e-bikes, bicycles, scooters, or train connections. The project involves site identification, optioneering, and pilot design, with stakeholder input to meet user demands. Plus implementation of to trial temporary transport hubs to support passenger flow and accessibility.
Stage: Design & trial of temporary infrastructure
Funding Awarded: £200,000
Fort William Relocation/Reimagination of the Bus Station
Feasibility study and options appraisal, including stakeholder engagement, to establish a preferred option for the upgrading and/or relocating of Fort William Bus Station including the integration with the rail stations and opportunities to improve access arrangements for buses.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £45,000
Inverness Bus Station Relocation/integration
Replacement / upgrade of Inverness Bus Station and Rose St Multi-Storey Car Park to understand the opportunity for creating a strategic multi-modal transport interchange. Public consultation followed by a detailed appraisal to support the identification of a preferred option.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £85,000
Project Management Support
Project management support for Highland projects.
Stage: Project management support
Funding Awarded: £57,000
City of Edinburgh (Edinburgh and South East Scotland Partnership)
A90 Sustainable Transport Corridor
Improvement to the Blackhall junction. Design and construction of extending the Hillhouse Road bus lane closer to the stop line to reduce bus delays. New bus detection / Queue Management System will be installed to further prioritise public transport.
Stage: Design and construction
Funding Awarded: £250,000
A8 Sustainable Transport Corridor
Improvements in walking, wheeling and cycling from Gogar, Mayburgh to Roseburn including providing new bus priority while improve walking, wheeling and cycling provision at Drumbrae junction. Concept design, transport modelling (integrating with existing WETIP proposals), options appraisal and stakeholder consultation.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £212,000
A702 Sustainable Transport Corridor
Detailed design and stakeholder consultation of public transport and active travel corridor improvements.
Stage: Design
Funding Awarded: £130,000
Midlothian, East Lothian and Edinburgh Sustainable Transport Corridors
To continue design development and business case/value for money work on the development of a series of sustainable travel improvements on the A701, A7, A772 and A1/A199.
Stage: Business case & design
Funding Awarded: £505,000
7-7-7 Trial
Deliver a trial to change of bus lane operational hours along a key bus route. Bus lane hours of operation would change from current Peak Only Mon-Friday to 7am to 7pm, 7 days a week. Evidence collected during the trial would present the case for rollout of 7-7-7 along other key routes across the city/region.
Stage: Implementation of trial
Funding Awarded: £282,000
Craigs Road Bus Priority Junction
New bus priority signalised junction at Craigs Road/Maybury Road.
Stage: Construction
Funding Awarded: £250,000
Turnhouse Road Bus Gate
New bus gate at Turnhouse Road is directly linked to the new Craigs Road junction and allows bus operators access to Maybury Junction at peak hours
Stage: Design & construction
Funding Awarded: £90,000
Edinburgh & South East Scotland Mass Transit
Work to develop the business case, building on the STPR2 recommendation
Stage: Business case
Funding Awarded: £250,000
Midlothian (Midlothian Bus Alliance)
Midlothian UTC and MOVA Bus Priority at Signals
Delivery of Urban Traffic Control (UTC) and Microprocessor Optimised Vehicle Actuation (MOVA) traffic signal control designed to provide priority for buses at 15 key junctions within Midlothian.
Stage: Construction
Funding Awarded: £735,000
Hillend (Midlothian Snowsports Centre) Bus Terminus and Turning Circle
Creation of a bus turning circle and terminus at the top car park at Midlothian Snowsports Centre. This is to enable buses to turn and provides a waiting / resting area for bus drivers. Bus stances also provide a waiting area for passengers.
Stage: Construction
Funding Awarded: £44,000
A701 Transport Interchange Study
Site selection and options development study for a new multi-modal transport interchange on or in close proximity to the A701 corridor
Stage: Business case
Funding Awarded: £100,000
West Lothian (West Lothian Bus Alliance)
Almondvale Avenue Junction Modifications
Design and construction of road layout at Bubbles Roundabout in Livingston to widen the exit onto Almondvale Avenue to provide a bus lane in the outside lane. This will segregate buses from queuing traffic on Almondvale Avenue.
Stage: Design and construction
Funding Awarded: £338,000
Bus stop modifications and bus priority signals feasibility study
Bus stop modifications design at five locations and feasibility study on the potential of communication from bus systems direct to traffic signal controllers (without a UTC system) to demand bus priority for late running buses.
Stage: Design and feasibility
Funding Awarded: £57,000
Aberdeen City Council (North East Bus Alliance)
Urban Traffic Management Control System upgrade for bus priority
To upgrade the City Council’s Urban Traffic Management Control (UTMC) system to facilitate and develop its functionality in order to provide priority for buses at traffic signals.
Stage: Design and construction
Funding Awarded: £490,000
Upgrade of St Machar Drive/King Street Junction from roundabout to signals with bus priority
Replace the existing 4-arm roundabout at the junction of A956 King Street / School Road / St Machar Drive and its associated staggered pedestrian crossing facilities, with a new traffic signal-controlled junction incorporating Urban Traffic Management Control (UTMC) facilitating bus priority at the signals and improved safety for walking, wheeling and cycling. Detailed design and associated works to enable the project to be construction ready in 2026-27.
Stage: To take to construction ready
Funding Awarded: £50,000
Upgrade and expansion of Real Time Passenger Information across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Implement upgrade and expansion of bus stop real time passenger information (RTPI) provision at key locations across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
Stage: Construction
Funding Awarded: £455,000
Projects for Orkney Islands Council, Shetland Islands Council, Fife Council and the Forth Valley Bus Alliance are under discussion with awards expected to be made shortly.