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原文传递 BACK ON TRACK

题名：	BACK ON TRACK
正文语种：	eng
作者：	ALAN MILLAR
摘要：	In a city with high public transport use, Edinburgh's residents and elected politicians have a sense of ownership of Lothian Buses, which ranges from civic pride to high expectations and overt criticism. Those citizen stakeholders should be cheered to know that its newly refreshed management team has an ambitious business plan in place and that normal service is resuming as the publicly-owned group puts recent turmoil behind it to focus on commercial growth and a transition to zero-emission operation. The largest of Britain's eight arm's length municipal companies - majority owned by City of Edinburgh Council, with minority shareholdings by Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian councils - operates over 600 vehicles, around 500 of them on a city network of 39 all-day and 11 night services (the all-day Airlink to the airport also runs through the night) extending into Midlothian and East Lothian. A further 150 are in four complementary businesses -the Edinburgh Bus Tours double-deck sightseeing operation, East Coast Buses' 13-route network linking towns and villages of East Lothian with the city centre and parts of Midlothian, Lothian Country Buses' three corridors connecting Edinburgh with West Lothian and South Queensferry (within the city boundary but always served by 'country' rather than city buses) and the Lothian Motorcoaches charter and day tour venture. East Coast Buses runs three night services and Lothian Country two.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Buses
卷：	75
期：	818
页码：	30-32,34