I know I haven’t posted a lot lately, but there has been a lot going on in the background.
I hope to be able to tell you more soon, but there are some exciting changes happening with the blog, and with me. In the meantime there may be a lack of posts while the changes take place (one of them could be pretty big!). More details soon hopefully!!
Well, Off the back of this blog, I’ve been offered a trial by Nokia of their new Lumia 800 mobile phone for two weeks to review, If anybody is interested I’ll be writing about it at
https://allaboardblog.co.uk/nokia-lumia-800/
May even try a Blog post from it!
From Sunday 26th Feb service 7 will be able to serve Oakridge Park estate.
It seems that that planned change to turn the ‘B&Q’ roundabout into a traffic light junction has changed into a much smaller scheme with some slight modifications to lanes and one of the roundabouts.
I can see why this scheme has changed as it’s obviously alot cheaper to implement, and with the main congestion problem being vehicles wanting to turn left from Saxon Street into Watling Street East being allocated their own lane it should help. Sadly it looks like the second biggest cause of Traffic buildup, the Pedestrian crossing outside Tesco, is staying. Work is due to start shortly.
Most buses are attempting to serve routes as normal but with the following exceptions:
Service 1 – Not serving Coffee Hall, Using Saxon Street instead. Also unable to serve Emberton or Lavendon, Terminating at Olney.
Service 2: Not Serving Oxley Park, Grange Farm, Willen Local Shops or Poet’s Estate in Newport Pagnell, Using Grid roads between the effected estates.
Service 4 – Unable to serve Hodge Lea, Using Great Monks Street
Service 7 – Unable to serve Stantonbury
All services will be only using Grid Roads in Milton Keynes for the rest of today’s service due to road conditions.
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!!