{"id":449,"date":"2005-10-27T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/crosstown_traffic.html"},"modified":"2005-10-27T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:07:32","slug":"crosstown_traff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/crosstown_traff.html","title":{"rendered":"Crosstown Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News discovers that crosstown buses are good for the elderly and infirm but not much else<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Passengers on the M34 are living life in the slow lane.<\/p>\n

The crosstown bus – the slowest in the city – inches along 34th St. at a pace so snail-like that a Daily News reporter yesterday gave it a run for the money during a river-to-river dash.<\/p>\n

In a race that stretched just over 25 minutes, the mammoth machine needed a last-second burst of “speed” across Second Ave. to hold on for a dubious win – by all of 46 seconds.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes this thing is so slow, that even I can beat the bus,” said Frank Fellippello, 46, who rides the bus daily.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And even fat-ass reporters can nearly outwalk a bus:<\/p>\n

The contest began at 34th St. and 11th Ave., with a News intern boarding an 11:41 bus, and a reporter setting off on foot.<\/p>\n

The M34 shot out of the starting blocks, leaving pedestrians in the dust with an unspectacular view – a rear-end bus ad featuring the scowling mug of actor Don Johnson.<\/p>\n

Man and machine would trade the lead a few times as they approached busy Herald Square, where the bus finally got jammed up by a long red light and a traffic cop’s whistle.<\/p>\n

Fighting urges to stop for a chocolate chip cookie and a cheesesteak at favorite spots along 34th St., the reporter held the lead even as the bus lurked dangerously close.<\/p>\n

But the bus finally won out near the finish line, zooming into the winner’s circle as the hapless pedestrian staggered across Second Ave.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the Post notes that the M34 often is too slow for even the elderly and infirm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The M34 is so slow that in Herald Square last night, an 84-year-old woman with a cane said she’d be better off walking.<\/p>\n

“I’m late for an appointment. I don’t think I can get there any faster with the bus,” said the woman, who didn’t give her name.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other s l o w lines include the M66, the M23, the M14s, Brooklyn’s B63 (5.2 mph), the Bronx’s Bx19 (4.9 mph) and the Q58 International “Express”<\/a> (6.9 mph).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News discovers that crosstown buses are good for the elderly and infirm but not much else: Passengers on the M34 are living life in the slow lane. The crosstown bus – the slowest in the city – inches along 34th St. at a pace so snail-like that a Daily News reporter yesterday gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}