The B12 bus line won the Schleppie Award - golden, lumbering elephants on a pedestal - given to the city’s most “unreliable” bus route. NYPIRG and TransitCenter awarded the M102 a golden snail on a pedestal during a Monday afternoon ceremony, and noted in the statement that “at 4.6 mph, the M102 moved slower than a fluttering butterfly, which typically has a pace of 5 mph.” “With buses maintaining higher ridership levels throughout the pandemic, the city’s transit leadership should be rolling out the red carpet for riders by enforcing bus lanes and opening all doors for boarding.” “For years, the M102 has been on the list of slowest buses in New York City, so this year’s Pokey Award should come as no surprise,” NYPIRG Program Director Megan Ahearn said in a press release Monday. The M102 had an average speed of 4.6 mph, slowed by heavy congestion on busy Manhattan streets, the advocates said. The M102 bus line - a line that runs from the East Village to Harlem with 8,000 daily weekday riders - won the 17th Annual Pokey Award, given to the slowest local bus route in the city by transit advocates with the New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign and TransitCenter.

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