Arriva launches The Loop
We’re connecting communities from 6 January 2025
Arriva, Milton Keynes’ leading bus operator, is delighted to announce the launch of Loop, a groundbreaking new bus service designed to connect key destinations across Milton Keynes. Commencing from Monday 6 January 2025, Loop represents the most significant expansion to the city’s transport network in over five years.
Buses will run up to every hour, six days per week from early until late.
Connecting communities like never before
The Loop’s innovative route will serve new destinations within Milton Keynes and enhances existing connectivity by allowing seamless travel across more of the city without the need to change buses. These destinations include:
• Oakgrove
• Kingston
• Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill
• Caldecotte
• The Open University
• MK Hospital and Stadium MK
• Bletchley
• Furzton
• Westcroft
• Shenley Wood
• Milton Keynes city centre
The service will operate in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions, with buses running up to every hour, Monday to Saturday. This new fixed-line route has been carefully designed to link residents to major shopping, education, work, and leisure hubs, providing seamless connectivity across the city.
View Loop timetable
A vision born from collaboration
The Loop is the result of extensive collaboration with the Milton Keynes Bus Partnership, as well as feedback from residents. By analysing data from the popular MK Connect service, Arriva and the Milton Keynes Bus Partnership have identified key travel patterns and needs to create a fixed-line service, tailored to the community.
Our new route delivers lots of great connections around the south of the city, linking rural and urban communities with popular shopping, leisure, healthcare and education destinations.
Circle line to circle line
Our new route serves rail stations at Milton Keynes Central, Woburn Sands, Bow Brickhill and Bletchley – meaning that you can connect to fast trains to London, as well as other destinations in the region, without paying expensive parking fees. We’ll drop you right outside each station entrance.
With the first services between Oxford, Bletchley and Milton Keynes set to begin next year, East West Rail will provide easier and faster connectivity across the region.
We’re also linking up with our core bus corridors at key interchange points – with The Loop offering bus-to-bus connectivity to all routes in the Arriva Milton Keynes network, making it easier than ever to make local journeys, or for travelling further afield to Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, Luton and Aylesbury.
Stay in the loop
This is a brand-new service, so we’d love to hear our new customers’ suggestions on how we can make this route even better.
You can reach us on TwitterX @arriva_mk, Facebook @mkarriva, or call 0344 800 44 11 - we’re looking forward to hearing from you.
And don’t forget – there’s other great changes happening to every other route in Milton Keynes from Sunday 5 January 2025, including heaps of improvements and serving new areas. Find out more on our dedicated web page here.