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M60 Bus to La Guardia Airport: Worth the Stress?
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John Del Signore
Published Dec 26, 2008
Modified Dec 26, 2008
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Times reporter C.J. Hughes rode the M60 bus to La Guardia a few days ago and describes a frustrating scene: The only direct public transportation link between Manhattan and the airport is horribly overcrowded and slooow. It took Hughes two hours to get from 106th and Broadway to La Guardia—twice as long as scheduled. During the trip he watched as "two dozen people" with luggage tried to squeeze on, but "a wave of exiting riders, shouting loudly, pushed them right back off." Ridership on the M60 has grown by 263% in the last 10 years, but a spokesman for the MTA explains away the overcrowding as simply a "one-day aberration" caused by delays related to "unusual roadwork" on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. And besides, riders like Ben Mitchell—who rode buses in Africa in the Peace Corps—points out that "you could easily fit 50 more people in here without a problem. This is nothing."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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