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A Guy Rode The Longest NYC Subway Route So You Don't Have To
It took a reporter 14 hours (and 54 transfers) to cover the 155-mile ride.
Nearly 155 miles and 54 transfers, from Wakefield in the Bronx to Far Rockaway, Queens.
That’s the longest ride on the New York subway without riding the same segment of the route more than once, according to WNYC’s Subwaytron5000. The program uses an algorithm to crunch billions of possibilities. The rules are simple: The computer gets one card swipe and unlimited transfers. It can repeatedly visit any station, as long as it doesn’t cover any stretch of the track twice.