Efficient, technologically-advanced Bus Rapid Transit helps make Paris’ public transportation system run smoothly. Streetsblog has the video. (Brad Aaron)

These are booming times for bargain bus operators, as travelers who previously took to the skies look to save a few dollars and avoid the hassle of airports. (Forbes — Brian Burnsed)

Detroit residents get their first look at an ambitious plan to connect the city and its suburbs over the next few decades with a network of light rail, commuter rail, and hybrid buses. (Detroit News — Tanveer Ali)

New Yorkers are finding plenty to like about the city’s new double-decker bus — good news for transit officials hoping to starting using a new fleet of them to help cut fuel costs. (New York Daily News — Matthew Lysisak and Pete Donohue)

As buses in Topeka, Kansas fill up with more passengers and the local transit authority struggles to maintain service, the Topeka Capital-Journal‘s editorial board urges Congress to buckle down on finding ways to fund mass transit.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority starts a trial run with a new double-decker bus this week, and will consider installing more as a way to accommodate an increasing number of passengers. (New York Times — April Dembosky)

Bus riders in NYC give rave reviews to an experimental route in which passengers pay before boarding, buses travel in lanes closed off to other vehicles, and traffic signals give buses extra time during green lights. (New York Times — William Neuman)

For one Vermont resident, the elimination of a public bus route serving her area represents an alarming fact: both the state’s transit agency and the federal government are not seriously concerned with providing dependable public transportation. (Rutland Herald)

For some commuters in Houston, the lack of crosstown bus routes makes getting to work by mass transportation a painfully long ordeal. (Houston Chronicle — Leslie Casimir)

A Michigan company’s plan to develop a new lightweight bus that has twice the fuel efficiency of normal hybrid buses could change the way we get around our cities. (Detroit Free Press — Brent Snavely)