Managed by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Hamilton Bus Station is ideally situated.

It is next to the two Hamilton shopping malls, New Cross and Regent (both of which are located in the heart of Hamilton Town Centre), and is located within a densely populated area (around 350,000 live within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of the station).

As well as this, the towns main railway station, Hamilton Central situated on the Argyle Line has frequent services to Motherwell, Cumbernauld and Larkhall on platform 2, with services to Dalmuir (via Glasgow Central) on platform 1.

The station is also equipped with telephone boxes, toilets and a taxi rank, as well as 24-hour CCTV monitoring.

There are a wide range of bus companies that stop at any of the 16 stands at the station, some of which travel nationwide.