Glasgow work parking options around Bothwell Street

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Work have recently relocated from close to the city centre with their own private parking to near Bothwell Street with no parking. I am in Ayrshire and my early morning 30-35min car share journey has increased to a 70-90min each way walk/bus ☹️

I don't always have time to spend nearly 3hrs of my day commuting, coming from Ayrshire, I don't know the city centre well, are there any options for parking all day in the area of Bothwell Street!?

Maybe park and ride to Central or to the Subway at Buchanan St.

Likely to be expensive and short term around Bothwell St. Where are you in Ayrshire? Can you drive to Neilston or Patterton stations and do a park and ride to Central?

There are a few multi-storey car parks in the area but they’ll cost you a fortune. A few hours is upward of £15 so a full day would be costly.

Sometimes you can get a parking pass for the car parks though, where they allow you ten entries for a set price.

I think I'd get the train. Parking will be really expensive. Bothwell St is ideal for Central Station

If you are coming from Ayrshire, come off M77 at Scotland street (where M8/M77/M74) join up and park and ride from Shields road underground.

As for multi-storey parking around Bothwell st, you have the Q park on Waterloo st, or the Cardogan square parking but either of those will cost you a fortune per day (£20+)
If you want to walk a bit and save a lot, Newton street car park (under the Kingston bridge) is £6 per day according to the city parking website.
Other than that check what's nearby on the Ringo or JustPark apps.

This is what I'd do. It's 20-28 mins on the train from Patterton.

A season ticket for Q-Park Waterloo Street is over £300 per month.

Also if you are planning to drive into city centre remember the bloody LEZ comes into force at the beginning of June so your car needs to be compliant

Buchanan Galleries is £15 per day - for up to 9 hours. That's where I would park - but mostly because it's on the right side of the town for me to get to. Agree that drive to the station and then train might be the better option.

Yes, the old banger is not LEZ compliant either!

Thanks for all the suggestions, it is looking like local bus might be no less awkward than a park and ride. Car sharers are talking about perhaps trying parking near old workplace and taxiing in - £20/day in taxis but split between 3 of us it might not be too bad compared to parking prices.

I am just too stuck in my old ways I guess 🤦‍♀️ - 35 years of nice easy drives to wherever I was working I've been spoilt! Doesn't help new offices are all hot desk, no lockers and I will need to cart everything, including lunch as no canteen in new place, up and down in the bus every day.

Is your employer not doing anything to compensate for the changes they're making?

Some employers would offer corporate subsidised parking season tickets (with QPark or other nearby multi-storey car park, or discounted travel, or subsidised lunches (even if temporarily) due to no canteen, or similar.

You seem to be losing a lot of work perks all at once, which is risky for the employer in terms of recruitment and retention.

My friend gets the train in from Dunlop - that could be another option.

A one off payment (minus tax) was mentioned, will maybe cover my first 30 bus tickets/lunches if i am lucky. We asked all the questions you have and no, no, and no. But we do get....drum roll.....bike racks! (handy for a 55 year old menopausal woman with a 20+ mile commute over the Kingston bridge!) and I think there might be a 3rd party unsubsidised sandwich/coffee shop type thing 3 days a week 🤦‍♀️

The spin is active working in varied open spaces you move around (carrying all your things with you), a city centre location will attract new talent (maybe it will) and no cars is better for the environment.

I think they will lose some people, especially parents with school/nursery runs, but I'll probably need to see it out to retirement - counting the working days to go 1,543 (approx).

I'm surprised they are allowed to make such changes.

You could challenge it on a discriminatory basis. Forcing a change from driving to public transport discriminates against disabled and older employees.

Can you ask for more WFH days?

My employer does a deal with NCP and we get most parks in the city for about £7 a day. Think Mitchell Street is more expensive but my car doesn’t fit in there anyways.

see if yours maybe does a deal

Yes, the old banger is not LEZ compliant either!

In that case I would forget looking within the city centre as in 2 months time you be changing again.
Also likely that any nearby outside the zone carparks are suddenly going to get a lot busier too as people are pushed out - not that any are exactly convenient for Bothwell street either unless you fancy a 20+ minute walk twice a day.
Park and ride or train or bus looks to be the way sadly

Bit of a trek from Bothwell St but you can get cheaper parking in Buchanan Galleries if parking more than 4 times a month. See their website for link to parking provider.

@Blanketpolicy You can apply for a card through Glasgow City Council that allows you to park for £8.00 a day. Cadogan Street car park is near where you will be working.

Whereabouts in Ayrshire are you coming from? If it's from Kilmarnock direction, consider the bus. Some of the buses that use the M77 are faster than the trains.

I would go for a park and ride option!

City parking who run the council carparks have cards you can get for all their carparks that takes the whole day down to £8, there is one at Cadogan Street and one behind the Kings the Cadogan Street has a long waiting list and is not the nicest tbh.
There's one in Washington Street at side of Victor Paris which is £7 a day you do need to early for this one.
Across the road from this one on McAlpine Street (behind the MOD building) is another its about £7/8 a day.
There's one round the corner on Brown Street but it's full of holes so I wouldn't recommend it fills up really quick as well with Atlantic Quay Staff.
If you are really early there is parking under the Kingston Bridge right underneath about 20 spaces and a small carpark Newton street just next to these all city council but you need to be there for 7am it's about £7 again.
There's lots of parking in town most on cleared sites where building hasn't started.
I've went between all these carparks for the past 15 years with no issues.

That's handy to know about the £8 card.
The problem with the carparks you listed (other than newton street) is from June they will be within the LEZ which scuppers the OP's ability to use them.
I've used most of those too over the years - and the various free spots that used to exist years ago if you went south of the river.

The only other carpark I can think of outwith the LEZ is along towards Finnieston at Elliot street - across from Europcar. It's £3.50 per day but could be a bit of a walk depending exactly where in the city centre people are.