By Philip Newman
The Straphangers Campaign is out with its annual Pokey Awards for the city’s slowest buses and the Q56 and Q32 have won the laggard sweepstakes for Queens.
The transit advocacy group presented its eighth annual Pokey worst-in-show recognition to the M42, the transit system’s slowest bus, clocked at an average “speed” of 3.7 mph.
“A 5-year-old on a motorized tricycle would outpace the M42,” the Straphangers’ report said.
The Straphangers also presented a new citation, the Trekkie, in recognition of the bus with the longest running time. It went to the M4, which takes nearly two hours from midtown Manhattan to Upper Manhattan.
As for the Q56, it averages 6.3 mph to run from Jamaica to East New York in Brooklyn.
The Q32 chalks up a running time of one hour and 27 traveling from Jackson Heights and Penn Station.
