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. 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.
