All about me and driving a bus for MK Metro/ARRIVA Milton Keynes

With our new MK Star network, It seems we’ve taken the customer information at Bus Stops to a new level

The Arriva’ing of MK Metro continues….

Route 300 was “relaunched” last saturday as PlatinumMK300.

Nothing much else has changed to the route apart from some new Mercedes Buses that are now on the road.

You can find out more about PlatinumMK on either the councils website or ARRIVA’s Minisite

Our Friendly Driver, Tracy with her fancy new PlatinumMK Uniform Jacket on, Who took us to Magna Park

External Shot with Professional Matt at the front

Interior shot, again with Professional Matt (He wanted to be in the picture)

This is the end of the School day at Two Mile Ash School, It’s always like this at half 3.

The cars on the left of the picture are actually parked, with the right hand side being the queue of traffic behind the bus.

As you can see, the bus in the picture is waiting to go, But cant because theres a load of parked cars infront of him and he can’t get past, and the same for me in my bus….. So we sat there for 15 minutes and had a chat lol.

Once he could finally go, some of the car’s pulled up along side of me and asked why i wasn’t moving as I was apparantly “blocking it all up”…. Clearly they can’t see the parked cars or the fact that the bus is around 30 odd foot long and can’t just nip between the gap. Lol @ some people, They really don’t have a clue!

If only we’d been sitting 100ft further down the road I could’ve jumped out the bus, and popped through the front door of me house for a sandwich lol.

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Just a Random day at Metro…

Mud -

Breakdown -

Bus Bacon -

Well, The plan to blog from Duxford didn’t really happen as I struggled to get a decent 3G signal all day (Thanks o2!), But I’ve managed to find one picture online of us arriving on our bus.

(Thanks must go to professional Matt for leaving his coke can in the windscreen lol)

I’ll add some of the silly pictures I took later.

Picture is copyright of S Hartwell who goes by the name of Messy-beast on Flickr, You can see her other pictures by Clicking Me

The new Enviro’s have started to take to the road, After having a go in one I’m rather impressed with the power they have

pIm laughing once again as Ive been directed to to another photo of me at work thats on the internet, Thats six in total now….

pThis was back in 2007 when I was still at Aylesbury Garage, Taken in Dunstable, Why do I never see people taking pictures of me at the time!? LOL/p
pOh and this bus caught fire a few weeks later and was written off….. Im not connected to that! /p
pPhoto is Copyright of on Flickr