They’re run by Municipal Bus Companies. They’re arms-length companies owned, or part owned by the local councils. Lothian is the biggest in the UK.
There are quite a few in the UK, but they often only run a couple of unprofitable, but socially important, routes that the private operators won’t touch.
London doesn’t own it’s buses, but manages them on a ‘franchise’ model with private operators in the same way that the London Overground works, i.e TfL set the routes, the frequency and the fares centrally.
From my reading, Manchester are going down the TfL route rather than the Municipal Bus Company route…
She became mysteriously ill the moment the election campaign period started. There’s every chance it could be for genuine reasons, but she’ll almost certainly be spending the day negotiating just how big a role she can have in Big Eck’s Egotrippers.
EDIT: As much as I think Salmond should be fired into the sun, I am looking forward to all the biggest wankers being siphoned off from the SNP so we can all point, laugh and cringe at them.
Isn’t Cherry’s thing that she’s a GC feminist though? I’m not sure that she’d join a party headed up by Salmond, given the reasons for him being cast out by the SNP.
The abhorrent Wingsoverscotland.com is touting it as the party for “science and women’s rights” if you wanted anything further to confirm that it is all the TERFs that’ll be lining up to vote for them