WBUR TODAY: 🚍 Boston's slowest buses
❤️ Donate Wednesday, September 16, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Good Morning Boston, The annual road race against the Green Line is this Friday. But if you're looking for an easier opponent, we have a few bus routes to suggest: Move over, Emmys: It's time for the "Pokey-Schleppie Awards." Granted, these awards are not as prestigious — or desirable. The public transit advocacy group Transit Matters released its third annual list of Pokey-Schleppie winners yesterday, recognizing the slowest and most "bunched" MBTA bus routes of the year. Here's a look at the "winners," so to speak: And the Pokey goes to: The Silver Line's SL4 route . Transit Matters found the SL4 between South Station and Nubian Square in Roxbury was the system's slowest, averaging a speed of 6.1 mph. (If you ran a 5k road race at that pace, it'd take just over 30 minutes.) "That's largely due to so much traffic in Downtown and Chinatown, a...