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Associated Press - November 5, 2009 9:15 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City bus route that takes 1 hour and 50 minutes to travel from midtown to upper Manhattan has won the first "Trekkie" award from the Straphangers Campaign for longest scheduled running time.
The public transit watchdog group says it's faster to take Amtrak's regular weekday service from Manhattan's Penn Station to Philadelphia than ride the M4 bus route.
The group's annual "Pokey" award was won by Manhattan's crosstown 42nd Street bus. The M42 bus was named the city's slowest bus route because the group says it clocked buses traveling an average 3.7 mph on weekday afternoons.
The "Schleppie" award for the least reliable bus route, according to MTA New York City Transit records, went to the B44 route on Brooklyn's Nostrand Avenue.
A Transit spokesman had no immediate comment.
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