Lothian Buses: Last News

Buses have been diverted from a busy route in Edinburgh due to yobs allegedly throwing rocks and smashing a window.

A cyclist has been rushed to hospital this morning after being hit by a car on busy Edinburgh road.

Edinburgh Live that she received a call from her terrified daughter on the evening of January 6 after she was allegedly left alone waiting in the cold for 40 minutes for another bus.Melita Baskeuiciane, 10, who goes to Tollcross Primary School, had taken the short walk to the bus stop to catch a 34 bus back to her Wester Hailes home.Her mum says she then presented her bus pass that had been topped up that morning to the machine on the bus, but the driver 'angrily' told her it wasn't working so she wasn't allowed to board.The mum said: "My daughter is in P6 at Tollcross and is ten years old, it happened after Christmas when schools went back."Usually she gets the bus, on that day at around 3.30pm. She went to the bus with her bus card that I topped up that morning.

Edinburgh has been closed after an ‘unidentified object’ was discovered. The alarm was raised by staff at the Seafield Household Waste Recycling Centre in the capital on Thursday morning.

Lothian Buses has announced the latest update to its network during the Covid-19 outbreak.Since the introduction of the Critical Services Network in March they have continued to analyse travel patterns to offer an optimum service for key workers and essential travellers.Nigel Serafini, interim managing director at Lothian Buses, said: “Over the last few months, our teams on the frontline and behind the scenes have continued to go above and beyond to meet the needs of those that required necessary travel.

Lothian Buses has introduced a critical services network to deliver travel across West Lothian during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.