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Milton Keynes Citybus (initially Milton Keynes City Bus) was formed in January 1986 to take over the Milton Keynes depot of United Counties. It was privatised on 7 August 1987 [24] and introduced a policy of operating minibuses in an unusual two-tone grey livery. It took over a small independent, Johnson's of Hanslope, in 1990 and initially ...
The original MK Metro logo Mercedes-Benz midibus at Milton Keynes station in May 2009 UVG Urbanstar bodied Dennis Dart Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB branded for route 5 in Central Milton Keynes shortly after the takeover by Arriva Optare Solo on high-frequency route 8 at Milton Keynes station in early 2009 Mercedes-Benz Citaro in a dedicated silver livery on route 300 after the Arriva takeover
Stagecoach X5 is an inter-urban bus service linking Oxford and Bedford via Bicester, Buckingham and Milton Keynes. Service started in 1992 with an hourly service between Oxford and Cambridge, which was increased to half-hourly in 2005; [1] new vehicles were introduced in 2009 and again in 2015.
Bus operators: Arriva Shires & Essex National Express Stagecoach East: Connections: Bus-route 3 to Milton Keynes Central railway station via Central Milton Keynes [1] Construction; Bicycle facilities: The Coachway is connected to the Milton Keynes redway system of cycle/ pedestrian routes. Accessible: All access routes are wheelchair-friendly ...
In 2017, four Arriva Shires & Essex depots (Milton Keynes, Luton, Aylesbury and High Wycombe), and their routes, were transferred into the management of Arriva Midlands. The vehicles were renumbered in late 2018 and early 2019 to avoid multiple Arriva Midlands vehicles sharing the same fleet numbers.
Luton & District was bought in 1994 by British Bus, [18] which, in turn, was purchased by the Cowie Group on 1 August 1996 and rebranded as Arriva the Shires in 1998. [19] [20] [21] Milton Keynes Citybus was acquired by Cambus (a privatised part of Eastern Counties), which was, itself, sold to Stagecoach in 1996.
Busway routes F70 and F77 reach out as far as Milton Keynes and the 321 operates to Watford, the latter being taken over from Garston (Watford) in 2016. Luton operates Green Line Coaches routes 755 and 757 and previously had an outstation at Stansted Airport which operated the EB2 an easyBus contract.
Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city [c] in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. [b] At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349.