Sunday:
I think ‘Professional Matt’ and ‘Mrs C’ are competing with each other in the saddo stakes 😉
Category Archives: Buses
Do I look like a spotter?!
I got a couple or presents (Not sure you’d call them that but still) for some people as a joke.
It’s amazing how happy they look with them LOL
You’d never catch me with summat so sad….. Ahem
There is no title
Quite possibly the most boring video you’ll find on Youtube, Bits of my Sunday glued together into one video.. and No, I didn’t win anything….
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xLXr56AdhQ
Now into my third week at MK Metro, and it’s my first week out on my own without a trainer…. All going fine I think.
I’m still missing the friendlyness of Aylesbury depot, I find Metro, and especially the Bus Station a bit intimidating, But since starting here I’ve noticed my Psoriasis has started to slowly clear up, Which proves my theory that working all those hours on the 200 for Arriva wasn’t doing my health any good.
The problem being of course that my skin was at it’s worst when I started at Metro. I did plan to try and at least get my hands clear with steroid cream, But it hasn’t happened. This hasn’t helped with getting to talk to people as I can see them staring at my skin which then puts me on the defensive. :/
Oh well, I’ve only been on me own for 2 days, So we’ll have to see how it goes, At the moment I’m 80% certain I made the right decision to transfer.
Another 5 second video now, This bus must hold the record for the most annoying indicator sound! LOL
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpisc6uXFpk
Not alot to say really
I don’t really have much to write about at the moment, But I’m being nagged to put something new here, So I’m doing as I’m told.
It’s been 7 days since I started at MK Metro, I am still with an In-Service Trainer until Thursday, and then I’m hoping to still get my 4 day weekend off 😀
It all seems to be going okay, Hoping to find out which depot I’m gonna be based at tomorrow, and I only have one more route to learn, the 26E.
On Sunday just gone I went to the London Transport Museum’s Depot at Acton Town as they were having an open weekend.
While I was there I spotted this…
Here we have a Museum piece, Donated by Arriva London, While up here in Milton Keynes, Metro have two of these in service! LOL
Aylesbury have got two of there 13 new vehicles, One has been out on the roads of Princes Risborough to see if it will fit on the 300’s
All Change
I’m currently sat in my bus on a break as I type this. My head is spinning with thoughts, and if I don’t spill to someone soon I’m gonna go mad. Seeing as I aint gonna see anyone till tonight I’m putting them on here, Just to clear my head more than anything else.
(This is my excuse for why this post might not seem that joined up and slightly all over the place
It’s my last day on the 200 today.
Well from this coming Monday I will no longer working at Arriva Aylesbury as I’m transferring to MK Metro.
Bus after a couple of petty and childish incidents with a few of the older Metro drivers in the past two days I’m starting to have second thoughts…
Argh I just don’t know..
I’ve really struggled for the past six months trying to make my mind up if I wanted to transfer and now I just don’t know what to think, At the moment I have this horrible feeling that it’s gonna be a re-run of 2005 🙁
Still not a lot I can do now so just gonna have to make the best of it.
Fuel Protest
How comes other bus companies seized the opportunity to advertise bus travel during the summer when petrol prices were sky high, Yet we finally tag along six months later when prices start to drop LOL.
I really don’t understand why we take so long to do stuff like that!
SHUT UP!
Harry, The other Aylesbury driver who’s over at Milton Keynes, who normally covers my breaks, Is leaning against my bus, While I’m sat in the cab.
I’m telling him that the bus I’ve got seems to have major Wheel Wobble..
Me: All the yellow wheel markers are in the right place aint they Harry?
Harry: Yeah
<Bent over old woman with compulsory trolley walks by and mutters something, Me & Harry assume it’s not directed at us>
Me (To Harry): Hmm I wonder what’s…
Old Woman (To me): SHUT UP! I am asking a question
<Harry Looks at me, I look at him, Old woman starts to mumble her question again>
Me: Harry, Get on my bus
Me (To Old woman): WE ARE NOT INTERESTED <Close Doors>
And people wonder why I’m not a fan of OAP’s!
…And we all… Stand…Together
Another week passes where not alot happens :/
A bus stop has appeared by the fancy new Sainsbury’s in Central Milton Keynes, by “The Hub”. The timetable states that is is valid from Monday, 6th October and has times for the route 7/7E….. Pity noone seemed to tell MK Metro about this new stop and route change as they were still sending their buses the old route for all of this week. It’s great to see the Council and Bus Company working together! LOL
Still no sign of our new buses at Aylesbury. We’re now being told that they are in the wrong shade of blue and have all got to be repainted, A bit embarrasing to be repainting brand new buses, But hardly surprising either 😉
Nothing at all has happened on the 200 this week. While waiting my time at the City Centre on Friday afternoon I seemed to make a new friend who wanted to tell me everything thats wrong with MK Metro & Arriva buses and that their were 72 speed ramps on the number 9 route. I just nodded and grunted til it was time to go. 🙂
MK Metro seem to have gained an old The Shires Trident, I think it was new at Southend, But not sure. Anyway it caught fire quite a while back and has only just reappeared after a rebuild. It’s been painted bright orange, and according to one driver it still smells “smokey”.
UPDATE:
I’ve been directed to a news website that reported on the fire of the trident, You can see the bus was in a pretty bad way which might explain why it took so long to rebuild.
You can read the newspaper article here.
Oh and highly exciting news I almost forgot to tell you all. I’ve managed to wangle myself one of the new style ARRIVA fleeces, I bet your all so so happy for me 😛
It's been a long day
People that know the 200 will know that it’s soooo busy we need 2 buses in tandem….
Of course thats not really the case, It just seems that the people that work out the Duty sheets haven’t realised that the 08:14 bus from Northfield is on two different duties, LOL.
Still, this is the first time since I started this route in March that I’ve actually met the bus, and followed each other all the way to town.
If you flag down a bus, and when the doors open it has one of these….
Please don’t expect the driver to be able to understand what your saying if you stand on the pavement and wisper.
If your then asked to speak up as they can’t hear you, Don’t then whisper at the very same level as before.
And once you’ve been asked a third time to speak up as the driver taps the plastic screen, Just to make sure you realise it’s there, Don’t then shout at the top of your voice in a sarcy manner.
All you have to do is talk normally at the holes in the screen, Not towards the floor or into the rest of the bus, If you do that then we can hear you just fine! Thankyou!
Lady who I don’t think was 100% walked upto my bus today
Lady: Does this bus go to the National Express Coach Station?
Me: Yes It does
Lady: Oh it does, does it?
Me: Yes
Lady: So it does go there then?
Me: Yes!
Lady: Oh right, I was waiting for the 200
Me: This is the 200
Lady: This is the 200?
Me: Yes
Lady: Oh, I thought it was the 70
Me: <looks at blind> It does say 200 on the front
Lady: Oh yeah I know, I just thought it was the 70
Me: Oh ok….. <pause> So do you want to goto the coach station?
Lady: No, Not right now thankyou
Driver CPC
I received my Driver CPC book this week, and have been having a glance at it.