A day spent at Wycombe garage trying to sort out their real time system…..
I’ve never understood why they park all the broken/dead buses against the fence nearest the road so that its the first thing you see as you pull up alongside the depot… Not the greatest impression!
…and apparently this bus was on fire for more than 3 hours lol
Hope to have details of some MK route changes for April soon!
Whats everyones view on a Blog facebook page?
Thinking about doing one for people to post questions/comments/spots etc… Wondering if it would work better than a forum
Thoughts please people!!
The first Arriva Branding at MK started today on Route 5/5A
Well, If you are at home tonight, and have nothing better to do then you can spend a bit of time BusDriverJames spotting on Channel 5 at 8pm tonight during The Gadget Show. I am sure the bus will get far more coverage than me, But will be interesting to see how it’s played out compared to how it was recorded on the day!
Let me know if you see me!
Changes to Arriva Milton Keynes bus services from 23rd October 2011
Service 1
Some Off Peak journeys to and from Lavendon will not serve Emberton and will use Drift Way in Olney. Some journeys will now terminate at Olney. Revised Timetable
Service 3
Sunday journeys will use Standing way between Kingston Centre and Monkston and will not serve Grove Way/Open University. Revised Timetable
Service 4
Journeys at School Opening & Closing times will divert from Two Mile Ash, Using Great Monks Street between TMA and Hodge Lea, and also Divert via Field Lane, Greenleys. Revised Timetable
Service 5/5A
Services will now Terminate at Wolverton Agora. It will no longer be possible to transfer between services, eg. New Bradwell to Stony Stratford. Through fares will also no longer be available. No change to Timetable.
Service 2
Arriva will now be operating the full Westcroft – Newport Pagnell route on Sundays, With extension to Renny Lodge. Revised Timetable
Service 7
Arriva will now be operating the full Wolverton – Bletchley route on Sundays, Revised Timetable
It’s been a rather odd sort of day today.
It’s not every day you are asked to drive a film crew around town in a bus.
The gadget show came to MK to test Noise Cancelling Headphones, and what better was to do it than on a noisy bus!
The day was spent driving round the City Centre while they filmed various bits, Which even included a guy playing the bagpipes.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA70B-BGRHg
Never did I imagine one day that I’d be driving round in a bus with a man playing the bagpipes at full volume!!
Been a great day!
I’ve started to notice that I’m getting more and more visitors looking for timetables for buses in Milton Keynes, Even though the MK Council and Arriva sites have them all available and rank much higher on google when searching.
At the moment, I just copy over the MKC page and link to that, I’m starting to wonder if it would be in my interest to tap into this generated traffic, Which then may in turn be worth a few quid with an advert or two. (I’m not talking about plastering the site with banner ads, and I certainly didn’t create this blog to make money, But something that covers the cost of hosting wouldn’t be too bad.)
This blog has always been about me and my job with a bit of Public Transport information thrown in alongside, I’ve toyed with the idea of creating a blog within a blog for the Information section, But don’t think I would have the time to keep it fresh and upto date.
Is there anyone out there that is ofay with WordPress that would be interested in helping with that side of things? Someone that could put up bus news etc? Nothing confirmed yet, Just thinking out aloud really but would be interesting to see if there is any interest.
hummmmmmmmm………
It doesn’t happen often!!
So the service changes are in, it’s time for some of our buses to depart to new areas. The following will be leaving us:
2418
5103
2420
2421
2422
2423
2425
2424
2431
2427
2428
2429
2430
2445
3521
3522
3537
3620
3529
3530
3532
3536
2419
Solos waiting their final checks before leaving MK
