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[Deregulation and privatisation of all city-run bus networks in the UK in the 1980s, except London, which got an exemption](https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/14sokqv/comment/jqyh9um/)
The reason Edinburgh has what looks like and basically acts much like a city-run bus network is that, for whatever political reason, the city simply never sold it's stake in the resulting private entity which became Lothian Buses. I think Nottingham may have done the same, but they're the exceptions.
Glasgow and nearly all other cities simply sold off their stake in the resulting private bus companies. What we know today as First Group grew out of the Aberdeen and Grampian region's resulting private bus entity, which grew to take over many others. Glasgow, and all other cities it services, have little say in what it does though of course. |
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