From Chattanooga, Tennessee: "New Policy Banning Cell Phone for Bus Drivers Starts Monday." (WRCB)

You may not ride them, but you share the roads with Carta buses.

And come Monday, a new policy goes into effect to keep your family safer.

It's one of the stricter policies in this state, telling bus drivers to leave their cell phones at home or they could be out of a job. (Read more here.)

From San Antonio: "Caught on Tape: VIA drivers texting while driving." (WOAI video report by Brian Collister)

From Glasgow: " You parliamo Glasgow? Bus driver learns Polish to teach workmates the local lingo," by Alastar Dalton

It is Glasgow's unique tongue – unintelligible to many native English speakers, let alone the city's burgeoning population of east European immigrants.

Now, a Scottish bus company has taken steps to teach their Polish drivers "the Patter" to help them understand their passengers, in the vein of Stanley Baxter's famous Parliamo Glasgow sketches.



Phrases such as "Geezan aw day tae the toon" (“May I have an all day ticket to town”) and “Wanan'a hauf please" ("One and a child please") are frequently heard on the city's buses. (Read more here.)

From Seattle: "Metro rolls out big red RapidRide bus design," by Aubrey Cohen

King County Metro Transit rolled out sleek new buses for its planned RapidRide routes Monday and announced $13.8 million in new federal funding to help the service start next year.

"This is a transit-happy city," Matthew Welbes, executive director and acting deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, said in front of the new red-and-yellow, articulated bus Monday morning. (Read more here.)