From Minneapolis-St. Paul: "Green Line: Bus commuters toast Route 144's last ride," by Frederick Melo for Pioneer Press

As the final Route 144 bus rolled south from Randolph and Snelling avenues, the women at Sweet Pea's Public House gazed with mixed emotion out the window, cradled their beers a bit tighter and broke out unabashedly in song. "The wheels on the bus go round and round," sang Irish instructor Mary Roguski, flanked by fellow members of the "144 Hoolies." (Read more here.)

From Albuquerque: New Bus!

Got my first look at the new buses today, and managed to get this shot of one of them at the intersection of Lead and Mesa. This one displays one of the we’d-know-it-anywhere bell towers of San Felipe de Neri Church in Old Town, one of eight Albuquerque icons to be featured on the new buses. I hope to be the first on my block to collect all 8.

From Monterey County, California: "A valued bus ride to prison," by Dave Nordstrand

Come June 14, River Road's Susan Sterrett will help children visit prison but only for four hours only and for a good cause.

"The fathers of these children are incarcerated," Sterrett said. "What we do is bring their children in from all over the state to visit them."

Sterrett is regional coordinator for Monterey County for "Get on the Bus." The annual Father's Day event has chartered buses from across California picking up the children -- the offspring of inmates -- plus their guardians. The buses then drive them through prison gates and onto the grounds of the Correctional Training Facility and the Salinas Valley State Prison outside Soledad.

(Read more here.)

From somehwere between Vara and Lidköping, Sweden: "City Bus Driver Ditches Vehicle Mid-Route And Not A Single Passenger Could Complain," by Sara Gates for HuffPost Good News

A bus driver in Sweden made an unexpected stop on a roadside last week. But, instead of picking up a passenger, the driver hopped out of the vehicle.

As riders looked on, the intercity bus driver, who was identified in Swedish-language reports as André Grandin, knelt down on the ground and comforted a young girl who was crying. After a few moments, Grandin reportedly returned to the bus and drove on without a word. (Read more here.)

From Washington, D.C.: "Deer leaps on top of woman at D.C. bus stop, knocks her out" (ABC7)

Kicked by a deer. That is the description of the bizarre incident that occurred this morning to a woman after a leaping deer crashed into her, knocking her to the ground in Southeast. (Read more here.)

From Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina: "Tune in to ‘As the Bus Stops’ — a transportation-themed soap opera," by Lori Aratani for the Washington Post

Triangle Transit could be the first transit agency in the United States to score a Daytime Emmy.

Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but folks at the transit system, which serves the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, has come up with a clever marketing/education campaign to tout the virtues of their bus system. (Read more here.)

Busboy's Annual Pass: Was It Worth It? Spreadsheet for May.

See below for the cumulative totals since January 1.

You can find out what this is all about here.