[2] Work started in June on improving the streets around the new station, with new paving slabs, bus shelters and road surfaces.

Emergency measures, including a new box junction and temporary pedestrian barriers, were put in place overnight to keep the same problem from happening the following day.

[5] On the first working day of operation, unprecedented traffic congestion occurred, causing gridlock for several hours.

Emergency work to mark surrounding junctions and erect temporary pedestrian barriers was carried out to try to ease the problems.

[citation needed] On 12 December 2017, following moderate snow two days before and icey conditions the previous night, some of the plastic bubbles which are suspended between iron girders and constitute the roof failed, leading to five of the bus bays being closed and a large part of the bus station being cordoned off well into 13 December.

They also go as far afield as Bedford, Bicester, Leicester, Market Harborough, Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Rugby.