But buses do sometimes get into the news. Here’s a selection of old black and white pictures from the Evening News archives featuring buses, bus drivers, bus conductors, the bus station and more.
Scroll through and get a flavour of what it was like on the buses in the 1970s.
5. Family business
Father and daughter Mr A Mitchell and Mrs N Hunter, both bus drivers with Edinburgh Corporation transport - in the driver's cab in August 1970. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
6. Canopy crash
A No 34 Corporation bus crashed into the canopy of the Palais De Danse at Fountainbridge Edinburgh in July 1971. | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand
7. Bastille bus
French visitors in national costume travelled from Paris in an old bus to Edinburgh for the Bastille Day celebrations in July 1971. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
8. In the cavalcade
The Salvation Army's bus in the Evening News-sponsored Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade in August 1979. | TSPL Photo: George Smith