A few transfers in to us ate starting to appear as we start to transfer out most off our solo’s.
This bus, 3513 was collected from Watford today and will be on the streets of MK as soon as it’s been converted to single door and painted green.. Two similar buses are already done and just waiting for destination blinds.
I was going to make a comment about this, and the lack of accuracy with the reporting, But I’ve decided against it 😉
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!
[Doors open at Hospital Stop and Woman gets on, Stares and puts a £2 coin on the tray]
*Silence*
“Where are you going?”
“Tesco…Bletchley”
“You do need to say where you are going, I am unable to guess”
“It is up to YOU to ask me where I am going”
“Sorry, No, It’s down to you to tell me where you want to go, Just like this notice says here” [Points]
“GIVE ME MY CHANGE!”
[Puts change on tray] “Please and Thank You work wonders too”
[Woman walks off]
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!
For a change I did some driving in Aylesbury yesterday… It’s nice to see nothing has changed with the Town, With the slightest thing happening and the whole town coming to a standstill…. As usual Yesterday was no different…
