Some buses move slower than a lawn mower, transit advocates say

If you need to get across midtown in a rush, avoid the M50 bus at all costs, transit advocates say.
That line got the "Pokey" award in the Straphangers' Campaign annual list, chugging along at a sluggish 3.5 mph at noon on weekdays, making it the city's slowest local bus.
"You can push a lawnmower faster cross town than it takes the M50 to go from First to 12th Avenue," said Straphangers' spokesman Gene Russianoff.
The M42 bus, which took the title for the last two years, made a marginal improvement from 3.6 mph to 3.7, tying for second-slowest route this year.

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