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In the News
Tour de Flushing Comes to Queens — No Yellow Jersey Required  (Queens Daily Eagle, August 15, 2018)
Progressive Pols & Southern Pols Remain At Odds Over Bus Improvements  (Kings County Politics, August 1, 2018)
Transit Advocates Push Mayor on Bus Reforms  (City Limits, August 1, 2018)
Transit advocates unveil new proposal to fix NYC’s bus crisis  (Curbed New York, July 31, 2018)
Frustrated commuters act out 'excruciatingly slow' bus speeds at City Hall  (Metro New York, July 31, 2018)
Advocates call for better bus service citywide  (Bronx News 12, July 31, 2018)
Bus Drivers and Riders Call on Mayor de Blasio to Build 60 More Miles of Bus Lanes  (Streetsblog, July 31, 2018)
NYC Bus Overhaul Needs Boost From De Blasio, Advocates Say  (New York City Patch, July 31, 2018)
Today’s subway meltdown highlights the MTA’s larger communications problem  (Curbed New York, July 30, 2018)
The slowest bus in the city wouldn’t even beat a manatee in a race  (Time Out New York, July 26, 2018)
Straphangers ‘honor’ four Queens bus lines  (Queens Chronicle, July 16, 2018)
Worst bus routes in NYC? M42 the slowest, B12 most unreliable, advocates say  (amNY, July 24, 2018)
We Can’t Tell If the Subway Action Plan Worked, Which Was the MTA’s Whole Idea  (Village Voice, July 24, 2018)
M42 wins 'Pokey' award for slowest city bus  (NY1, July 24, 2018)
You can walk faster than the MTA’s slowest bus  (New York Post, July 24, 2018)
Worst bus lines are in Midtown and central Brooklyn, report finds  (Crain's, July 24, 2018)
42nd St. crosstown bus once again named city's slowest trip  (New York Daily News, July 24, 2018)
Straphangers Campaign names annual Schleppie, Pokey awards for poor bus service  (ABC 7, July 24, 2018)
These NYC Bus Routes Are the Slowest and Least Reliable  (NBC 4 New York, July 24, 2018)
This is the ‘pokiest’ MTA bus in the city, according to transit advocates  (Metro New York, July 24, 2018)