National Express bosses were grilled by locals at a meeting to demand the company reverse its planned axe of the number 36 bus.
Scores of people attended the meeting with the company’s Dundee managing director, who said the service was running at 20% loss and was therefore unsustainable.
Residents, who also heard from council officers, argued the bus was a local lifeline and asked why National Express did not divert some of its projected £100 million profits to subsidise the service.
Councillors Brian Gordon, Lesley Brennan, Georgina Cruickshank, Willie Sawyers, Stewart Murdoch and Christina Roberts all attended the meeting.
The service is scheduled to stop running on October 20. A petition to persuade National Express Dundee to reverse their decision has been signed by around 700 people.