Article: New York Daily News reporter tests life in the slow lane on city bus.

By Pete Donohue, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 24--The M3 bus from Inwood to the East Village is slow.

How slow is it?

It's so slow that you can get all the way from New York to Philadelphia by the time the slowpoke bus finishes its route.

That's slow -- and it's no exaggeration.

The Daily News had two reporters race each other: one on an M3 bus and the other on an Amtrak Metroliner from Penn Station to Philly's 30th St. Station.

The trip to the City of Brotherly Love was seven minutes faster than the odyssey on the M3 -- and the reporter was eating a celebratory cheese steak in a ...

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