Pensioners say they would be happy to abandon their cars to cut carbon emissions - but the bus won't stop for them.

Residents at Lovat Fields retirement village at Willen are raising a petition to Milton Keynes Council transport bosses protesting over the "absolutely ridiculous" 300 service.

They itch to hop on the bus as it passes by their front doors on Portway so they can travel to Kingston shopping centre or the new coachway when it opens.

But it does not pick up passengers close by.

Instead they have to take the Number 12 to the interim coachway to get on the 300 - which then runs them along Portway where they would otherwise have been waiting.

Village resident Denis Balchin said: "We are trying to do what the council has asked us to do, get out of our cars and use public transport - but they make it impossible to do that."

Andrew Coleman in the council public transport department said it sympathised with residents of Lovat Fields, but the 300 had been introduced specifically as a cross-ctiy express service to link eastern and western expansion areas."We regret that there are no plans for this to change."

However, the Number 12 ,available to village residents ,runs twice an hour to Central Milton Keynes via the interim coachway.