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I find the M8 between East and West Village to be a nightmare and I find I can usually walk between Second and Seventh Aves before a bus comes. M23 is another clinker.
Good buses for me are the crosstown M86 and M96...both run very frequently and go fairly fast.
I find the M8 between East and West Village to be a nightmare and I find I can usually walk between Second and Seventh Aves before a bus comes. M23 is another clinker.
Good buses for me are the crosstown M86 and M96...both run very frequently and go fairly fast.
I used to get on the M23 sometimes and every single time, people (myself included once or twice) would get on the bus, see that we're going no where and promptly go out the back door before even going one stop or after getting to the next stop. The walk was almost always faster.
I used to get on the M23 sometimes and every single time, people (myself included once or twice) would get on the bus, see that we're going no where and promptly go out the back door before even going one stop or after getting to the next stop. The walk was almost always faster.
I noticed the M14 was rather well-used, enough that some buses were double lengthed. Puzzled why people wouldn't just use the L train.
Well, it could be a couple of reasons:
* If they're going to the LES (or the West Village at the other end), they have to go down the stairs, ride the (L) for a couple of stops, and then come out and transfer. It's probably still a little quicker, but some people might find it too much of a hassle.
* If they're only going a few stops (say, from 6th Avenue to Union Square), it's the same issue of it not being worth the hassle to climb up and down all those stairs. (Not to mention that if you're going to say, 7th Avenue where there's no (L) stop, you have an extra block to walk).
Of course, there are plenty of people who use the (L) along 14th Street, because it's generally faster (even with the stairs and everything), but those are the reasons some might prefer the bus. It's the same thing in the outer boroughs on corridors like Fulton Street (though generally, in the outer boroughs, the buses are a little faster than in Manhattan, with some exceptions. Fulton Street might be one of them).
The M101/102/103 are so very slow. I can only imagine taking them to the end of the line, as I have only had occasion to take it from Park Row to the UES. Never again will I allow a guest to dictate our mode of transit, as I would have driven, but they wanted to have a "New York experience" and not drive in a car, but wanted to see the city. Other times I have taken that route, it has been so incredibly slow, but on a cold/rainy day when it's at the curb as one exits J&R, and I didn't drive for whatever reason, it's a love-hate relationship with the bus, though tolerable to be out of the cold/rain.
The M50 is a painfully slow crosstown bus, and I believe it was voted as the worst in the city a couple of years back, with an average speed slower than a walking pace.
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