Megabus Sells 50,000 Tickets at $1, Breaks Website

Megabus is growing in terms of popularity for transportation in America (and England too!). Why? Because it's a bus sans the stigma of Greyhound, and the price tag, with fares usually topping out at around $43.50 (and starting at just $1).

And it just got a lot more popular, because the company is now offering an additional 50,000 $1 tickets for customers traveling between September 14 and November 19. (Make sure and use the promotional code HOTDEAL).

Update: You can beat the system and the web traffic mentioned below by directing your browser to: megabus.com/us/index.html

All you have to do is book at Megabus.com/US for your Midwest -- Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Kansas City, Louisville, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indy to name a few -- or East Coast -- Baltimore, Boston, New York, Washington are a few of the majors -- trip. (See their bus stops page for more deets.)

There is a bit of a catch right now, though. Because of the 50,000 tickets they're offering, Megabus' site has been a touch, ahem, busy lately. In fact, I've only been able to actually get online with the company once in the past few hours and you can expect that these tickets are going quickly for those booking times; fares, by virtue of Megabus' transactional setup, rise incremently.

So if you want to book a really, really cheap trip, warm up your refresh finger, head over to their website and hope you can land one of these silly low fares.