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You are our commuter champions - helping to change how we travel

Connecting Communities

Our Staff Travel Plan

Our existing Staff Travel Plan was developed in 2008 to help support and promote more sustainable commuting options to staff. These options also promoted better health and wellbeing and highlighted how staff could reduce their carbon footprint and the environmental impact from individual car use.

This plan is now out of date and our new Glasgow Transport Strategy - commits us to updating our approach given the current climate emergency. It is critically important that we look to facilitate the reduction of the carbon impacts of council related travel (both staff journeys to work and business travel.)

How do you travel -by bus, car, train or on foot?

In order to develop a new Staff Travel Plan we need your feedback into your current travel patterns and choice of transport - when travelling to your work place and whilst at work.

We will do this through a quick and easy staff travel plan survey - which will be open for around 6 weeks from Monday 30 October 2023.

Your feedback is very important to help shape our plan and help us identify alternative sustainable ways to commute.

Our new plan will consider existing travel options and schemes and look at the feasibility of implementing new travel measures.

We would encourage all core council staff and staff in City Property to take part in the survey - teaching staff in our education establishments and staff in other ALEOs are not required to complete this survey.

Taking the survey - play your part and share your journey details

Please share your feedback with us before Friday 8 December 2023 - you can do this online through our smart survey or you can complete a paper version.

If you have access to a computer - online survey

The quickest and easiest way to take the survey and provide your feedback is with our online smart survey at https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GCC_Staff_Travel2023/
Your information will be captured immediately and is important to helping develop our new travel plan.

If you don't have access to a computer - paper survey

Your manager can provide you with this paper copy of the staff travel plan survey. [279kb]
Managers please email completed paper copies to ConnectingCommunities@glasgow.gov.uk
If you have a large volume of completed paper surveys please email Stephen.Macleod@glasgow.gov.uk to arrange collection.

Changing how you currently travel - be part of the sustainable solution

Whilst we survey your travel habits to help create our new staff travel plan don't forget that you can still make small personal choices to travel more sustainably.

Using public transport contributes to fewer single occupancy car journeys and the climate emergency - and collectively we are working together for the benefit of our city to reduce harmful emissions and our own carbon footprint. Also, by travelling more actively you can improve your own health and wellbeing.

Visit our Travel Resources page - for information on

Walkit.com to find a good walking route, not just into the office but to anywhere you'd like to go. The site will give you an estimate of how long your walk will take, how many calories you will burn and how much CO2 you will avoid over other forms of transport.
JourneyShare provides you with the opportunity to link into other council staff making the same journey to car share into work to help save money, and protect the environment.
City Car Club operates Glasgow's official car club, bringing pay-as-you-go motoring to residents and businesses across the city.

Visit our Cycling page for information on

Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme - open all year round. Visit our dedicated section Cycle to Work Scheme on Connect to see what it can offer you and the terms and conditions to apply.
Cycle hire, loan bikes and pool bikes.