Malmö Lokaltrafik (ML) was a public transport bus company operating in the municipality and city of

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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. It was formed from the bus services of City of Malmö tramways (MSS) in the 1970s as the tram network in Malmö was being closed. In 1989 a completely new route network and schedule was introduced and received harsh criticism from the public. The tight schedule was often impossible to keep, thereby causing significant delays. This forced a lot of changes both in routes and schedules. In 1993, Malmö Lokaltrafik was sold to the private company Linjebuss, because it was decided to let the actual operation and ownership of buses be done by private companies. As part of this deal Linjebuss was also awarded the initial contract for the city bus operations. The brand name for the buses became Länstrafiken Malmöhus, which was still owned by the regional assembly. Later the brand name was changed to

Skånetrafiken Skånetrafiken is the regional public transit district in Skåne län, in the south of Sweden. Skånetrafiken was founded in 1999 when the two counties Kristianstads län and Malmöhus län were merged into one region, causing the two respe ...

, which continues to run Malmö's city bus network to this day. The corporation Malmö Lokaltrafik had its assets moved to other entities but continued to exist legally, and was later involved in a shell company scheme.

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