Members of Transportation Alternatives and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani participated in a race to determine if walking is faster than taking the bus along 34th Street. Teams either rode the M34 bus or walked from Third to Eighth Avenues. The walkers won by seven minutes over the bus, which has an average speed of only 5.5 mph. This event coincided with the approval of the Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan, which aims to create a busway and improve public transportation in the area.
"We should never have it where any one of us feels confident about smoking the bus in a race, but today I feel very confident because of how slow these buses are."
"86% of my constituents do not have cars and rely on public transportation. These are folks, when they leave to get crosstown, it takes forever."
"Buses along 34th Street average just 5.5 mph for 28,000 daily riders. A crosstown trip on the bus takes about 22 minutes."
"We're ecstatic that there's going to be a miracle on 34th Street — a car-free busway along the corridor and a fully pedestrianized Broadway."
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