Further opinions on public transport from Scottish Household Survey

Reasons for not using the bus more often

Disabled people were far more likely to say that they did not use the bus more due to health reasons than people who were not disabled (27% compared to 2%). Although numbers were much lower, disabled people were also more likely to report difficult access on or off steps (4% vs 0%), a long walk to the bus stop (4% vs 2%) and uncomfortable (2% to 1%). [shown in Figure 27 earlier in the publication]

Reasons for not using train more

Due to the rotation of questions within the Scottish Household Survey questionnaire, this question has not been asked since 2019. The last three years of available data (2014, 2016 and 2019) have been combined. Reasons for not using the train more were not greatly different between disabled and non-disabled people, although ‘cost’ was named by more disabled people than non-disabled people (16% compared to 12%). ‘Health reasons’ was given by 3% of disabled people compared to 0% of non-disabled people.