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The Most Important Bus Routes in NYC Tend to Perform the Worst for Riders

By Ben Fried | Dec 11, 2014 | 28 Comments

The slowest bus in New York City is the M79, and the least reliable is the local M15, according to the Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives, which today awarded these two routes the “uncoveted” Pokey and Schleppie awards, respectively. On weekdays at noon, Straphangers measured the crosstown M79 at an average speed of 3.2 miles […]

Are the Subways Getting Worse? Depends on How You Measure It

By John Petro | May 7, 2014 | 5 Comments

Yesterday the Straphangers Campaign released a report that shows the number of subway incidents that result in a significant delay in 2013 rose 35 percent from 2011. “The increase in alerts is a troubling sign that subway service is deteriorating,” said Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign. The MTA responded that despite the report’s findings, the reliability of service […]

Manhattan Bus Routes Sweep the 2013 Pokey and Schleppie Awards

By Brad Aaron | Dec 19, 2013 | 9 Comments

The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives today handed out their annual awards for the slowest and least reliable NYC buses, with Manhattan routes taking the honors. The M42 and the M50 tied for the 2013 Pokey award. Each crosstown bus was clocked at 3.4 miles per hour at noon on a weekday. That’s slower than […]

IBO: MTA Fares on Pace to Rise 50 Percent Over Next Decade

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2013 | 2 Comments

The 2009 MTA funding package passed by Albany included a plan to increase fares and tolls every other year. The most recent of those fare hikes, implemented in March, increased fares 8.4 percent, with the MTA anticipating another increase in 2015. If this pattern continued for the next decade, fares would rise 50 percent, to […]

This Awards Season, Manhattan Buses Rank as the City’s Worst

By Stephen Miller | Dec 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

Since 2006, Streetsblog has provided red carpet coverage of the annual Pokey and Schleppie awards, given out by the Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives to the city buses with the slowest average speed and the least reliable service, respectively. This year, Manhattan buses took the crown in both categories. Although the awards spotlight the routes most notorious for crawling through traffic, stopping […]

Instead of More Fare Hikes, How About Bridge Tolls That Make Sense?

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

Since the beginning of 2008 — right around the time that Albany legislators failed to enact congestion pricing — NYC subway and bus fares have been hiked three times. Now the fourth fare hike in five years is on the horizon, and with Albany lawmakers sitting on their hands as MTA revenues fail to keep […]

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