MTA – B57

It’s ridiculously slow, I’ve been waiting for more than 20 mins, and there suppose to have 2 coming but none showed. Are they running a protest now or what?

This is the worst bus I have ever taken. It is NEVER on time and it is beyond ridiculous how the bus could not show up for an hour and then there is another one DIRECTLY behind it. At this very moment I have been waiting at the stop for 40 minutes trying to get home and there is a driver on the bus who was just talking to his friend. His friend has left and now he puts on the «NOT IN SERVICE» sign. –_​–
Also during this time period (30 minutes in) another 57 bypassed the stop because this bus is just sitting here parked.
Avoid this bus entirely if you can. If not you may get nowhere fast.

Look, the B57 isnt perfect. There is alot to be done to improve it (Yes @lori there need to be more buses running per hour). But that doesnt mean the B57 is absolute ass. In fact, though the arrival times are bad, the actual bus ride is awesome. It takes less time than the length of the route suggests, and the buses normally arrive on schedule. Yes, it can get delayed at times, but what did you expect from a bus serving all of flushing avenue, the IKEA terminal, and the jay street-​metrotech station.

Extremely unreliable and it only has to run 3 times an hour? The most frustrating thing is to see it stop a block down so the driver can make a DD run when it is already so obviously late.

I’ve never had to use a bus as unreliable as the B57. It seems to be in its own little world, not caring to stop when it is clear that I am waiting (I’m not so short that I am invisible, and I see that you’re not full!), taking its own sweet time to arrive at the tall blue sign, stopping short on the regular so that I spill my coffee all down my boots… the list goes on.
On a good day I’ll make it from Bushwick to Clinton Hill/​Ft. Greene in 20 glorious minutes (hence the second star). A bad day will take twice that. Making me late for work, as the bus usually comes about 3 times an hour. It’s unnerving to watch new, shiny B13s pass the stop 3 times as I wait for my rickety ride. The route is anything but scenic, passing the gargantuan and grotesque Woodhull Medical Center, trash filled lots, projects, and all the ugly, haphazardly built apartment buildings in the Jewish part of Williamsburg. The bus seems to travel on the most depressing route possible. I look out the window and everyone just looks sad. Not the best way to start or end ones day.