Manhattan’s M42 bus is the slowest bus route in NYC. It is so painfully slow, crawling at a mere 5.25 mph — about the speed of the average jogger — that it won an award on Monday.

The crosstown 42nd Street line won this year’s Pokey Award during an annual bus awards ceremony presented by the New York Public Interest Research Group’s (NYPIRG) Straphangers Campaign and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) in Midtown on Nov. 10.

The 2025 Pokey and Schleppie Awards ranked over 200 bus lines with high-volume ridership based on how slow they roll across the city and how long people have to wait at bus stops.

As for winning the Pokey Award, it's not something to brag about. A bumblebee, which flies at about 10 mph, can move faster than the M42, transit gurus said.

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