Didn't get the WR, took about 8.5 hours. Got extremely unlucky and barely missed trains at Oak Grove, Union Sq, Park St, Cleveland Circle, Heath St, and Mattapan. The other transfers went beautifully though, no in between.

The London Tube Challenge is better documented, but the rules are mostly the same.

I will tell you on Friday when I do it.

Absolutely! That's the best part!

That would indeed be faster but alas the rules forbid personal transport, bikes included.

That takes real effort. That's what, 21 hours or something?

Some guy thought there was and accused me of being racist, so clearly there is?

I'm not submitting it to Guinness WRs because fuck them, but I do want to comply with the standard rules to the best of my abilities, and this requires having an independent witness who is not doing the challenge hold a master stopwatch.

It sounds like a guy did the CR version of this and it took 2 days.

There are fairly standard rules for all these types of challenges, (NY, London, etc), including Boston. Private transport is banned, so no bikes, cars, taxis, etc. Buses and your own 2 feet are permitted though.

>if you start later in the day

IMO you don't want to do that because the longer you wait to start the more chances the T has to get screwed up.

Replying here since the other guy deleted his bad take, I do care about the people of color that rely on the silver line, and that's why Washington St should be closed to cars, and the Green Line should be extended along it (With signal priority, obviously) from Boylston to Dudley and even Mattapan.

I'm not a huge fan of the commuter rail idea to JFK because while yes, you are saving a bit of time, you end up just waiting at JFK for most of it. Compared to an optimal red line route you only end up saving a couple minutes as far as I can tell.

You'll need to start or end at Braintree, that's basically non-negotiable. The other endpoint can either be Riverside or Wonderland.

Haha I hadn't heard about that. I guess I have to beat them! I think my route is better, personally, so we'll need to see.

You're required to keep a full log.

I'm a student back for Christmas, I'm allowed to have fun

The times aren't accurate anymore, but I've talked about the route here. Because the Green Line branches (Mostly) parallel each other in a few places, you only need to double back on the D branch from Riverside, and a couple stops on the B, with this route.

You just need to be on the train.

Visit all the T stations in the fastest time possible.

Still counts!

Unfortunately for me (But quite reasonably for them) people on Taskrabbit aren't available at 5:45 in the morning.

If you're used to a city like say, Amsterdam or Paris, yes, Boston is much less walkable, especially given the state of the T. Compared to cities like LA or Houston though, it's a pedestrian paradise.

Where you buy it, probably. That information is all tracked, even for scratch tickets.