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Bus Driving in Milton Keynes and other stuff

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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It’s unheard of in the History of ARRIVA The Shires for the business to spend so much money on new buses (Not that I’m complaining!)…. I have never seen so many new vehicles arrive at a garage in such a short space of time.

These first two pictures show the buses awaiting Delivery at the manufactures [...]