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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.
In late 1997, new company MK Metro took over the Milton Keynes operations while Premier Buses took over the Huntingdon operation, both independent from Stagecoach. [10] [5] On 30 January 1998, the Huntingdon operation was sold to Sovereign Bus & Coach, owned by Blazefield Holdings who decided to rebrand it to Huntingdon & District. In November ...
The town's bus services and major bus routes include route X5 to Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Oxford and services to Northampton, Kettering and other towns in the region. There is currently no bus or coach service between Bedford and London. Bedford bus station is due for major redevelopment as part of a scheme to renovate the town centre. [7]
The bus station and adjacent multi storey car park were originally constructed in the 1960s. [2] In 2012, plans were launched to redevelop the Bedford bus station as part of the Town Centre's renovation plan. [3] In June 2013, plans to rebuild the bus station were approved by the local council. [4] [5] The rebuilt bus station opened in March ...
London-based R&I Tours began competing with Milton Keynes Citybus in 1992 using the trading name Inter MK. They operated 10 single-deck buses, mostly Leyland Nationals in a two-tone blue livery, on a small number of routes in MK. [35] They withdrew from MK in 1994 [36] and were subsequently taken over by MTL. [37]
The B44 Rogers/Bedford/Nostrand Avenues bus route, the fifth Select Bus Service corridor in the city, was implemented on November 17, 2013 after the arrival of new fare machines. The S79 Hylan Boulevard / Richmond Avenue route, initially slated to be converted to SBS in 2013, was moved up to September 2, 2012; the local equivalents of the S79 ...
Service began in 1932 on the Q31, Jamaica-Bayside West route, by the Bayside Community Bus Corporation. [213] On December 2, 1932, the New York City Board of Estimate had received an application to operate the route from S & C Bus Company.
In 1980, the government embarked on a programme of deregulation and privatisation of bus services. To make them more marketable, the larger subsidiaries of the National Bus Company were split up. United Counties was split up operationally from 1 January 1986 and the new companies were privatised in 1987: [10]