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.
13. Vintage bus
A vintage Edinburgh Corporation bus ready for the Dunbar rally in August 1975. Charles Evans, director of Lothian Transport, is pictured with Neill Townend. | TSPL Photo: George Smith
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14. First Sikh conductor
Mr Akbal Singh, Edinburgh's first Sikh bus conductor in June 1972. | TSPL Photo: Jack Wallace
15. Coach crash
Police and ambulance at the scene after a coach crashed into an empty toll booth on the Forth Road Bridge in September 1975. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
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16. Driving test
Bus driver Georgina Fleming gets ready to take a vehicle drivers test in 1970 accompanied by Jessie Jeffrey | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie