A TRANSPORT link for tourists travelling between the city's main attractions is to end this week.

The Riversider 100 bus will stop services on Saturday, November 10.

Glasgow City Council, which funds the route, said a large increase in costs meant a new contract tender fell through.

A retender process will not begin until February 2019, leaving the route without a service for at least four months.

Glasgow's Green Party called the delay a "backwards thinking move".

Councillor Martha Wardrop, Green Environment spokeswoman, said: “This week the SNP City Government refused to sign up to Green calls for more ambitious carbon reduction targets, despite universal agreement that we need urgent action to stop climate catastrophe.

“Now they’re showing their commitment to sustainable transport is just hot air by axing the city’s only electric bus service.

"Even the cleanest diesel buses still burn climate-wrecking fossil fuels.

"This is backwards thinking from a carbon-timid SNP administration.”

The Riversider 100 goes from George Square to the SEC, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and then the Riverside Museum,

It is predominantly used by tourists to the city and makes 32 trips per day.

Last year some 37,000 people travelled between Glasgow's attractions on the 100 bus.

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) administers the contract on the council's behalf.

A Glasgow City Council spokesman said the museums are served by the City Sightseeing Bus, but at £15 for an adult ticket, it is not as cost-effective an option.

A spokesman said: “The council provided financial support for the service as the main bus operator withdrew in 2013 and we saw the merits in maintaining a direct service to two of the city’s most popular museums.

“Following the expiry of the warranty on the vehicles this year, the large increase in costs that arose during a retender process meant the service would no longer be economically viable.

“The contract will now be retendered again early next year with a view to having a bus service back in place for when the tourist season begins to pick up again.

“ The museums continue to be visited by the City Sightseeing Bus service.”