The SNP today called for a real fresh start for SPT and a new focus on providing top quality public transport in tough times after the Chief Executive became the second figure to resign from the organisation over expenses allegations.

Commenting SNP Cllr Graeme Hendry who worked to expose the culture of excess within SPT said: "Shuffling the deckchairs at SPT will not deliver the services the people of Glasgow and Strathclyde need.

"There is clearly panic within SPT and Glasgow Labour as people move to get out of the firing line.

"Simply taking one Labour Councillor out and putting in another is not real reform of what is clearly an organisation with a dysfunctional leadership.

"If Alistair Watson and Ron Culley have had to go there are real questions over how Cllr MacLachlan can remain on the board and what more may be hidden behind the doors of SPT.

"Cllr MacLachlan must tell the people of South Lanarkshire what his £17,000 of mileage claims were for -just as SPT must explain what benefit Glasgow's travelling public have felt from their lavish trip to the UEFA cup football.

"With questions unanswered over these expenses it is time for a thorough independent examination of SPT, of their books, their practices and the services they are delivering to the people of Glasgow."