A group of New Yorkers set out in Midtown on Thursday to answer the question: Is it faster to walk across town or take the bus?

Dozens of elected officials, including 2025 mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, community groups and transit advocates on Aug. 7 raced the M34 bus that picks up passengers along 34th Street. Group members divided into teams that would ride the bus or walk from Third to Eighth Avenues along the historic corridor.

The walkers — who added speed to their side — beat the slow-moving bus during the rush hour race by seven minutes.

“We should never have it where any one of us feels confident about smoking the bus in a race,” Mamdani said before the race. “But today I feel very confident because of how slow these buses are. These are the slowest buses in the United State

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