There are all sorts of buses - double deckers, coaches, minibuses, open-top buses, vintage buses, play buses and, when it comes to elections, campaign buses.
Here are 29 old photos selected from the Evening News archive, giving a taste of life on the buses in Edinburgh around four decades ago.
Scroll through the pictures to bring back memories and get a taste of Capital life in the 1980s.
17. End of an era
Ann Boyle, pictured with her ticket machine, was the conductress on the last Lothian Region Transport two-man double decker bus before clippies were abolished in October 1980. | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand
18. Mobile ceche
Edinburgh councillor Lesley Hinds joins Santa and some of the first youngsters to use the mobile Christmas creches set up on buses in December 1986. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait
19. Snow chance
An optimistic traveller waits at a bus stop near Penicuik, Midlothian, after winter weather returns to Scotland in April 1986. | TSPL Photo: Bill Newton
20. Campaign bus
Leading Social Democrat politician Shirley Williams on board an SDP campaign bus in Edinburgh, September 1987. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell