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.
9. Slippy Mile
A Lothian Region Transport bus slips on the snow and gets stuck across the High Street Royal Mile Edinburgh, during the winter of 1979. | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
10. Stepping up
Toddler Colin Carmichael needs a bit of help from his mum getting onto the bus in St Andrew Square bus station Edinburgh in May 1970. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan
11. Radio times
A bus driver using his two-way radio on a one-man Edinburgh Corporation bus in July 1972. | TSPL Photo: Jack Wallace
12. Granton crash
Police and an Edinburgh City Transport employee look at the damage after a number 9 bus crashed into a lamppost in Granton in November 1974. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout