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Buses rarely travel at 30 mph in Manhattan.
by tlholaday 17y ago
Buses rarely travel at 30 mph in Manhattan.
- dennmart 17y agoTry telling that to the bus driver who almost ran me over this morning when he was trying to beat a red light.
- martian 17y agoI haven't spent much time there. How fast do they travel?
- jrockway 17y ago30mph - the cost of missing every stoplight.
- jsackmann 17y agoThey travel at 30mph often, but not over very long distances. Imagine your stereotypical cab driver, with excessive acceleration and lane changes, and insert a stop every two blocks to add/drop passengers. Actual average speed depends a lot on the number of passengers. At rush hours, if you're walking at a fast pace you can outrace a bus. Only so much the driver can do when 20-30 people get on the bus at a stop.
- tlholaday 17y agoThe last figure I saw for the average speed of crosstown traffic was 6MPH. The crosstown M23 bus is scheduled to travel the two miles between 11th Avenue and 1st Avenue in 24 minutes.