Transportation Nation Story on Transit Cuts Wins Award

Riders on the doomed B51, in Brooklyn, a year ago. (Photo: Andrea Bernstein)

(Transportation Nation) Did you miss the WNYC /Transportation Nation's story last spring on the B-51's Last Week?  TN's Andrea Bernstein boarded the 6:30 am bus from Brooklyn, and her tape shows what the MTA numbers couldn't -- how buses form family-like social units that aren't easily supplanted, even when tough times push bureaucrats to cut routes with the fewest riders.   And now it's been recognized with the New York State Broadcasters Association award for "General Excellence in Use of Medium."   Make sure you listen (don't read!) here.