LEAST RELIABLE BUSES * USA - Groups name city's slowest ones

Slow and steady may win the race, but try telling that to bus commuters hoping to make it across 23rd Street in Manhattan

New York,NY,USA -News Day, by MARLENE NAANES -October 31, 2007: -- ... The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives gave the M23 the sixth-annual Pokey Award, for its average speed of 4 miles an hour at noon during a single weekday test ride. Meanwhile, the M1, which connects Harlem and the East Village, earned the groups' newest award, the first-ever Schleppie, for least reliable service. One-third of the route's buses have big gaps in service or run off schedule... Crosstown buses are especially slow, earning the top six slots for slowest buses, according to the groups' statistics... (Photo Courtesy: NYC Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transit Authority: LIVE LOOK AT TIMES SQUARE)