glowingfish

Well, a little bit of topic drift, but I now found out that in the UK, bus serves are coordinated, but not run, by the government? Like I looked up Manchester, and apparently it is private companies contracted to run bus service for the city?
In most US cities, city buses are run either by the city, or by a local transit agency, and they are usually very stable, good, unionized jobs.
On the negative side, in the US, many transit agencies are run as social services, and not with the idea of mass transit---one reason they aren't privatized, because it is hard to make money off of them.