The M42 is the not-so-proud recipient of the eighth annual "Pokey" award – a golden snail on a pedestal -- for slowest local bus route in the city. Volunteers and Straphangers Campaign staff took rides on 23 slow bus routes and determined the cross-town M42 to be the winner. The bus runs at a snail-like pace of 3.7 miles per hour as clocked at 12 p.m. on a weekday. By comparison, a person walks at about 3 miles an hour. And a 5-year-old riding a motorized tricycle, which goes 5 mph, would leave the bus in the dust.