![]() ![]() ![]() “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. Police were escorting buses along the route Thursday afternoon.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. Investigators are trying to determine whether the most recent incident is linked to the previous three, which all involved cans of pepper spray. Police describe the suspect as a man in his 20's wearing khaki pants and multi-colored shirt. The driver pulled over about ten blocks away. Thursday a man threw a rock at B15 bus along its route on New Lots Avenue and Williams Avenue in East New York, shattering the driver's window CeFaan Kim reports on the latest attack targeting a B15 bus in Brooklyn.ĮAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (WABC) - Police are investigating another attack on a bus in Brooklyn, following three other attacks on drivers on the same line in the past week.Īccording to police, just before 1 p.m. ![]()
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