Talk:Lothian Buses

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[edit] Christmas Day services

I've removed the Christmas Day services. While the normal services are probably relevant enough, special services that will run for just one day are far too transient to be encyclopaedic - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. --Scott Wilson 19:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Single-door buses

The article says that Lothian Buses now buy only single-door vehicles ‘for safety reasons’; what safety reasons are these? David Arthur 18:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe it's not so much safety as not being sued - people were apparently making compensation claims alleging that drivers shut the exit doors on them. There was also talk of people sneaking on the exit doors, and hence dodging the fare. I'll try and dig up the original article I read this in - it was from The Scotsman Online, if I remember correctly - and try to incorporate some of it into the article. --Scott Wilson 21:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Here we go - compensation culture and fare-dodging neds. --Scott Wilson 21:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

several of these buses that still have exit doors have video monitors showing the exit door to the driver from the viewpoint opposite it, so the driver has a pretty good idea of the situation before he closes it


[edit] Brittania Express X50 references

I'm trying to cite the sentence about the X50 livery in the Forth Tours section, but the only source I have is images in a photobucket account under the name Lujille85>433 - 502 - New colours for Lothian (photos 3 and 4). If anyone knows how to link these images without spambot going mental, or has alternative image refernces, please add them 77.97.86.12 16:11, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

It would seem that the bot reverts links to Photobucket because people try to use it to display images inline (which, of course, doesn't work). Since this isn't remotely what we were trying to do, I've reverted it, and it should let the page stand since I'm neither unregistered or newly-registered. I'll report this, though - there must be a more elegant way of preventing folk displaying Photobucket images inline. --Scott Wilson 18:17, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edinburgh Shuttle

This section of the article has appeared and disappeared several times. What is the dispute about it? David Arthur 22:49, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

dont know why it keeps being removed. the shuttle is controversial but is still in operation by lothian and merits being in this article. Brydo16 23:51, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


I've no idea, the person only ever edits this article, never gives a reason, and has been advised about unconstructive edits. From some initial edits to it by them, I'm guessing it's a disgruntled taxi driver (they aren't happy about it), accordingly I added relevant referenced info to the section about the controversy to maintain balance. Since then they have switched to wholesale removal. I'm guessing they don't know how wikipedia works and thinks it won't get noticed.MickMacNee 23:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Preserved Vehicles Table readability

I've trimmed some details from this table (see here:[1]), not because they don't belong there, but because they affect the readability of the table, i.e. to have all information in single lines. There is a way I believe to have this information as footnotes, but I haven't figured out how to do this if anyone else knows how. MickMacNee (talk) 14:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] On-street ticket machines in Central Edinburgh

Should the article mention these? Samantha of Cardyke (talk) 19:31, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Why not? MickMacNee (talk) 19:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC)