![]() “It’s extremely frustrating to wait twice as long for a B15 only to see two show up at the same time,” Mary Buchanan, research associate at TransitCenter, said in a statement. ![]() The B15-which travels between Bed-Stuy and JFK Airport-won the Schleppie award for least reliable route, since its riders often face long waits and unpredictable arrival times (20 percent of them arrive “bunched,” meaning that two or more buses arrive at a stop at the same time), leading to large gaps in service. Other slow routes include the B35, Bx19, Q54, and S48. Neighbors sued the Department of Transportation in opposition to their bus- and truck-prioritizing plans on 14th Street and three days before the new dedicated busway-to go along with the Select Bus Service route-was supposed to roll out, a judge issued an injunction to temporarily block it. “The M14A has recently been upgraded to an SBS route, with off-board fare payment and bus stop consolidation, but the most critical element to speeding up service, a dedicated busway, has recently been blocked,” the awards report reads. Though a new Select Bus Service route was rolled out for the M14A as part of the L train slowdown- without a dedicated busway-it had the slowest average speed, 4.3 miles per hour, out of 60 high-ridership routes (those with at least 10,000 average daily riders on weekdays) analyzed by advocates at NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign and TransitCenter. ![]() Those dubious honors go to the M14A, which won the Pokey, with the slowest route the B15, which won the Schleppie, for having the least reliable route and the M42, which received the Lifetime Depreciation Award for offering a longstanding service so poor that its ridership has dipped. Advocates from NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign and TransitCenter handed out the yearly “Pokies” and “Schleppies” awards to the worst bus routes, based on their analysis of MTA data. Regular riders of the city’s crosstown buses know that those routes are often slow and cumbersome-and now, there’s data to prove it.
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