Bonfire night is on a Saturday this year and there are various displays you might want to go to or be aware of. Milton School The big one in the village, run by the Milton School Association on their playing field, takes place on Friday night. Gates open from 6pm and the display starts at […]
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New Consultation on Bus Services
It will seem grimly ironic for most villagers but the County Council is embarking on another consultation on bus services. Their cabinet has agreed that a review of last year’s budget decision to cut the £2.7 million that is currently spent on subsidising bus journeys in Cambridgeshire over the next four years should now take […]
Live Bus Times around Cambridge
As we’ve mentioned before we’ve long had live bus times on the Milton village web site and there’s now a mobile version of the site so it seemed sensible to extend this beyond Milton. This means that you can now query any bus stop in the area and get live bus data. To do this […]
Milton Village Web Site Goes Mobile
We’ve just completed the first pass at a version of the village web site specifically designed for mobile phones. To switch to the mobile version go to: http://m.milton.org.uk It should work for both Android based phones and iPhones but we would welcome reports of any issues – ideally with screen shots if you can manage […]
Bus Changes Happen This Sunday
The new bus timetables kick in this Sunday (17/4) so we no longer have a Sunday service or a Citi 2 service in Milton, other than the late night bus. Instead we just get a half hourly service 9 during the day, plus the Park & Ride service. You can view the new service 9 […]
Fewer Buses – More Real Time Bus Information
Last Tuesday the County Council cabinet, with glorious irony, approved a plan to spent £590,000 on extending the real-time bus information system around Cambridge … including Milton where our bus service is being cut. This will be the same information you can already see here on village web site. There will apparently be signs at […]
County Consultation Confirms Bus Cuts
In an outcome which will surprise no one the County Council today wrote to Milton Parish Council confirming that the cut to the evening and Sunday service on service 9 is going ahead. You can read their letter online here.
Public Meeting about Bus Cuts
About 120 people attending a meeting at Milton Community Centre on Thursday night (17/3) to discuss the proposed bus cuts with representatives from Stagecoach and the County Council. On the panel, from left to right, were: David Geasor – assistant clerk to Milton Parish Council (taking the minutes) Cllr Hazel Smith – one of our […]
County attended Public Meeting about Bus Cuts
Cllr Michael Williamson has now invited Glenn Edge, who is the Head of Transport Services at Cambridgeshire County Council to tonight’s meeting. He can address issues about the cut in subsidy to some of our 9/X9 services. So a final remember that there is a public meeting tonight (Thursday 17/3) at 7pm in the main […]
Reminder: Public Meeting about Bus Cuts
A remember that your parish council are hosting a public meeting tomorrow night (Thursday 17/3) at 7pm in the main hall at Milton Community Centre with Andy Campbell, the Managing Director of Stagecoach East, and Philip Norwell, Commercial Director for Stagecoach East. This will be an opportunity for you to discuss the proposed changes to […]