Good news for those looking to propose on a MegaBus! Despite mounting pressure from the Port Authority and neighbors, the Department of Transportation has decided to let the cheap bus company continue to drop off and pick up customers outside of the PA terminal in Midtown. For now. The company's temporary permit to park outside the terminal was supposed to have expired today. more ›

A man proposed to his girlfriend in a Megabus parked at the Port Authority yesterday. "Nina Lazerow thought it was just another bus ride," the CBS report notes, presumably referring to the nauseous lurching of the bus as it takes an hour to crawl out of Manhattan rush-hour traffic, the Cheetos dust-encrusted arm rest you have no choice to use and the guy hocking loogies into a plastic bag a seat over while he watches the same episode of Friday Night Lights the entire ride on his iPad. No, this bus had one designation: love. Then…a four-hour trip to Baltimore. more ›

Buckle up, fans of cheap buses, things are about to change. Kind of. Despite increased scrutiny, the city doesn't have much say over where the Bolt- and Mega buses of the world could do their thing but a new bill in Albany would allow the city (i.e. the MTA and community boards) to assign designated pick-up and drop-off locations and require a permits to operate in the city. The bus companies seem okay with the idea, as do riders...as long as it doesn't hurt those ridiculously cheap prices. We'll take clogged thoroughfares in exchange for $1 tickets to Boston anytime! more ›

Are the country's geese now heading to our roads to possibly intimidate us humans against our anti-geese measures? A Megabus headed up the New Jersey Turnpike to New York had to make an emergency stop after a flock crashed into the bus' windshield, sending glass flying into the driver's eyes. more ›

Though Megabus drivers are not even authorized to use GPS devices when lost, if it were an emergency they would most likely be expected to use the system installed on the Megabus. However, driver John Tomaszewski was reportedly distracted by his own GPS device when he crashed the double-decker bus into a bridge on the Onondaga Lake Parkway, killing four. more ›

Police have identified all four casualties in Saturday's Megabus crash near Syracuse, including an 18-year-old New Jersey girl who seemed to be the only passenger getting off at Syracuse from the Toronto-bound bus. Driver John Tomaszewski, who began working for Megabus in the spring, reportedly missed a turn for the Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse, and used a GPS device to find his way down Onondaga Lake Parkway for a way back to the station, which drivers are not authorized to use when they are lost. more ›

Four people are dead and over 20 more injured after a double-decker Megabus crashed into a bridge near Syracuse. The bus driver, who was taking passengers from Philadelphia to Toronto, reportedly got lost and took a route with height restrictions. While on the Onondaga Lake Parkway, the 13-foot bus slammed into the 10-foot, 9-inch high CSX railroad bridge and flipped. Passenger Reena Raitold the Daily News, "The next thing I knew there was a lady on top of me and her blood was just dripping on top of me profusely. I yelled, 'Help, help!'" more ›

Midtown merchants claim that bus companies that use curbside stops — like Megabus and Bolt Bus — are hurting business. With as many as eight coaches idling on West 33rd Street at one time, business owners say that the vehicles create a "wall of metal, glass and rubber" that makes it hard for pedestrians to see or visit the shops on the other side of the street, according to the Daily News. more ›

Back in 1933 Popular Science reported on New York engineer Walter H. Judson's new railway which would have trains running from San Francisco to New York in 18 hours, and Chicago to New York in 5.5 hours. Now it's the buses battling it out to have the quickest times and cheapest fares to and from New York. more ›