From Louisville, Kentucky: "Tuesday, October 18, 2011," by EmilyRS

# 4 - Central Ave Status: on time

The bus arrived right on time and even waited a minute or two for some passengers coming from another bus. How come that never happens for me? (Read more here.)

From Victoria, British Columbia: Desert Bus for Hope.

Desert Bus for Hope (see Bus Story # 215 for the Desert Bus story)

From Guatemala City: "Guatemalan women hail single-sex buses," by Anna-Claire Bevan for The Guardian

Guatemala City has introduced women-only buses aimed at reducing instances of harassment and violence against women on public transport across the Guatemalan capital. (Read more here.)

From Brooklyn: "City Threatens to Shut Down Bus That Separates Men, Women" (NBC)

The city has threatened to shut down an Orthodox-run bus service in Brooklyn unless it stops forcing women to sit in the back of the vehicle. (Read more here.)

From Northumberland, England: "Marathon man undone by bus trip," by Stephen Mangan and Tim Castle for Reuters

A marathon runner was stripped of his third place medal after catching a bus to complete the last six miles of the race held in northern England last Sunday. (Read more here.)

From Minneapolis: "Where did the Jazz Man go?" by Anissa Stocks for the MNDaily

Christian Gerrard started riding Rob Thompson’s bus on a rainy fall afternoon two years ago.

The University of Minnesota junior was “blown away” when he first stepped onto the bus — he heard Miles Davis blaring over the chatter of other passengers. (Read more here.)

From Portland, Oregon: "Bus driver kicks off woman with crying baby; passengers leave too," by Kim Murphy for the Los Angeles Times

Can. Someone. Please. Make. That. Baby. Stop. Crying.

No, actually. Babies are notorious for crying as long as they feel like it; adults are known by psychologists to hate the sound of crying babies more than just about any other sound there is; and well, there you are.

It's an age-old dilemma, and its very familiarity may account for the way in which an incident last week on Oregon TriMet's Bus No. 57 has become an international cause célèbre. It is the story of two dozen passengers, more or less, a baby in a bad mood, and a bus that motored through its own terrible little Twilight Zone on the 16 miles from Beaverton to Forest Grove.

(Read more here.)