and write your own graph traversal pessimizer for it. (Easier for stops/graph diameter maximization rather than physical distance, which I don't think is included in this particular dataset.)
When i was younger I would sometimes ride the F-train back and forth several times in the evenings just so I could think and put articulate thoughts into a notebook. This is before underground network connectivity, before smartphones, etc. The hum of the train was great and the speed of the F train at segments of Queens were exhilarating, a bit like listening to EDM while coding.
I used to do a few different versions of this for most of the 30+ years I lived in NY. I used to love walking all over manhattan alone late at night. I would do like 10 mile walks just for the heck of it with music going. Or I would hop on the bike and do similarly.
When there would be friends involved, we'd usually be at Chinatown Fair all night until close, then walk down to Elevated Acre and hang out there (this was pre-9/11) until 3 or 4, then walk our friends from Staten Island to the Ferry. If the mood was particularly good, we'd take the ferry with them and then ride it back and everyone go their separate ways.
There used to be houseboats around lower manhattan back then and it was a nice (albeit sketchy) walk from Chinatown down to the tip of the island. There was also pretty briefly this wild hole-in-the-wall DUMBO nightclub projecting porn on the walls that we would frequently stumble into on our way down there.
Things like that were honestly the best part about living in NY, but also it's long in the past.
Summer 2020 I was out there after creating as much shareholder value as I could at my then-WFH 9-5. First it was delivering postmates on rollerblades, then I did it on my bike (working better and better apps every time to offset the depreciation inherent to riding a bike), then I'd just do a 4 boro bike tour Brooklyn over the Pulaski bridge up to Astoria, get souvlaki, take the Triboro to the Bronx and then head to Manhattan on a different bridge every time (High Bridge is still my fave). Just putting up like 40–60 mile rides noodling around that town. There's no better way to see the city, and no better place to bop around on a bike, in my experience.
Some folk on YouTube played a game like this (Snake) in real life with the South Korean rail network. It's Jet Lag: The Game - a great show, most seasons are different games. I think the one where they played Snake is one of their more complex seasons - they also play Hide and Seek and Tag across continents, and games like that.
I found it hard to navigate due to not being able to see far enough ahead and not knowing which transfer to take to head in the direction I want (is it Ⓡ Forest Hills-71 Av or Ⓡ Bay Ridge-95 St to head left/East at Lexington Av/59 St?). So, uh, I planned ahead using the subway diagram [1] (is that cheating?). I got:
Station Transfer
------- --------
⑥ Pelham Bay Park
Lexington Av/59 St -> Ⓡ Forest Hills-71 Av
Forest Hills-71 Av -> Ⓔ Jamaica Center-Parsons
Sutphin Blvd -> Ⓩ Broad St
Broadway Junction -> Ⓐ Inwood 207 St
Jay St -> Ⓕ Coney Island Stillwell Av
W 8 St-NY Aquarium -> Ⓠ 96 St
Times Sq -> ② Wakefield-241 St
In fairness a couple of my connections required knowledge of express vs local stops and I don’t think it’s fair to expect an out of towner to know that!
My strategy was to avoid midtown as long as I possibly could because so many lines intersect there. It's funny how you end up leaning on the part of the system you know best. For me that was Brooklyn. Atlantic Terminal is really key there. Could probably have made more mileage out of Queens/Bronx but wasn't confident.
More importantly, I need to put this thing down before I lose the entire day.
133 stations, 71.73 miles, 5:28, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare
My route was 6 to R to 7 to L to J to M to F to N to D to 4.
The game was somewhat frustrating because despite the animation slowing down at transfer stations I still find myself thinking too slowly to press the right transfer button. I missed some transfers that could make it longer. I wish there were a pause button. I generally don’t like games where thinking is combined with reaction times so I didn’t feel like playing it a second time.
Now I'm wondering what the longest Underground trip is without visiting a given line more than once. Probably needs a rule about the District and Circle lines where they overlap since you could get a lot of mileage out of that.
(I calculated the shortest one that includes all lines back in the early 2000s but they've obviously changed things around since then.)
My gut feeling would be Chesham/harrow/rayners lane/hammersmith/edgeware/earls court/green park/stockwell/embankment/elephant/bank/aldgate east/liverpool st/bond street/baker/kingsx/cockfosters
A route out to Epping via Newbury Park would be another option though, probably elephant/bank/kingx/green park/bond instead.
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
Are you saying F/G AND any line serving less affluent areas? Because if not, the G (save for maybe 2-3 stops in Bed-Stuy) is all affluent neighborhoods.
Pfft, there's no G train, it's just a psych experiment to see how long people will wait at a fake train station before giving up and seeking alternative transportation.
On the one hand, this sort of thing feels inexcusable to me. In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation.
On the other, the NYC subway is one of the few 24/7 subway systems in the world, which makes me envious somewhat. Ours closes at midnight and opens around 5 AM.
IMO the subway reliability issues are overblown these days. In the 2010s it was in a really dark spot but it's doing a lot better these days.
> In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation.
Even with its problems the NYC subway still is. Traffic is a nightmare. I have friends who insist on taking a cab to the airport because it's more reliable then end up complaining because they're still on the Belt Parkway or whatever.
In the 2010s it was so bad that I gave up on the subway and either walked, Ubered or took the bus everywhere.
When the MTA bus is better than the subway, things in NY are grim -- it was like the 80s & early 90s again.
The reliability has improved a bit, but the subway crime is also way, way up. So yeah, still a hard pass.
In the mid 2010s i had a reverse commute from Manhattan to Brooklyn and there was a few months where 3 days a week my full commute would take 2hr+ (midtown to sunset park) because the train just sat multiple times not moving. Especially on the bridge where it could be up to an hour just stopped.
The absolute worst time that I ever remember though was maybe in '89 or '90. The Lex-53rd st E/F station had a ton of ongoing construction and on weekends it was being used as a transfer station only that summer. All the staircases were closed and you could only get in/out via train -- this idea seems insane to me but that's NYC sometimes and especially in that era.
Anyway, my family and I were on a train passing through that station one Saturday or Sunday morning on the way to Queens and they made us exit the train inside the station as it was going out of service. Apparently a pipe had burst (I think?) and no trains were in service. The AC in the station was not working and it was maybe 90+ degrees underground. Plus water was leaking from everywhere. And there were hundreds of us trapped on a crowded, wet, dirty platform for like 4-6 hours while no trains were running and there was no way to get out.
Aside: that Belt Parkway story is why people from NY who live/work in Manhattan try to never fly out of JFK. That's the real solution. So much easier to get to EWR/LGA.
> The reliability has improved a bit, but the subway crime is also way, way up.
Eh, it’s all relative, I think you’re in less danger of experiencing issues on the subway than you are getting hit on the road. I take the subway all the time and have never had any problems.
Subway assaults went up 3x between 2009 and 2025 and violent crime in general in the subway has had nearly a 20% spike just in the first two months of this year alone. Assaults by repeat offenders are up 2x from 2019 to 2025.
I'll take a minor fender bender every now and again over someone hitting me in the head with a brick ever.
I can't believe the suggestion is that property damage and/or low-speed collisions would be preferable to being assaulted. And I've been tapped by cars and walked away from it several times. Plus the "well it never happened to me" is just survivorship bias. Over enough decades and enough rides something fucked up on the subway _will_ happen to you eventually.
2009 was a historic low point for subway crimes. Only looking at relative numbers from then is misleading.
There were 573 assaults on the subway in 2024, up from something like 150 in 2009. There were something like 1.9 billion journeys taken that year. Avoiding the subway because of the 1 in 2,000,000 danger of assault is not rational.
Exaggerated paranoid thinking is indeed the thing that leads a lot of people to unnecessarily leave NYC.
573 _felony_ assaults. Misdemeanor assault is still a thing. That includes people fighting you with their fists or groping you.
Also anyone in NY with a functioning brain knows just how underreported subway crime is. You can either get where you're going and go about your day or end it by trying to find a cop and then trying to get them motivated to even take your report.
2009 being a low point for crime should just be normal. I lived through all the bad decades in NY and you're not there yet but certainly trending towards it.
I like how multiple years of "hey why does all of this fucked up shit keep happening to me?" is "exaggerated paranoid thinking". Truly stunning and brave. Being repeatedly victimized by random crime is just a mindset, bruh.
> I'll take a minor fender bender every now and again over someone hitting me in the head with a brick ever
You're more than 7x more likely to die in a car in New York than on the subway. If you're the kind of idiot that voluntarily trespasses onto the tracks, you're 2x more likely.
In 2023, 112 motor-vehicle occupants died in New York [1] "97 people were fatally struck by subway trains" [2], nearly half (49%) of which are suicides and 33% of which are accidents, almost all of which involve voluntarily trespassing onto the tracks [3]. Five people were killed by assault [4].
In 2023 exactly two Uber passengers died in NYC. One from jumping out of their moving vehicle onto the LIE and the other from being rear-ended by a drag racer on the Whitestone Expressway.
The alternative to taking the subway for the vast majority of NYC residents is not driving to work.
And as an Uber passenger living in NYC I overwhelmingly spent my time on roads that were not highways.
I can't find exact taxi passenger deaths but between 2019 & 2023 there were 23 passenger fatalities across all rideshare services and taxis. At least one of those was a fatal drug overdose (2022).
> between 2019 & 2023 there were 23 passenger fatalities across all rideshare services and taxis
Which is way more than the total number of homicides on the subway system. All of this is before adjusting for trip frequency. (Uber and Lyft do about a fifth of the trips as the subway.)
I lived in New York for 10 years and go back frequently. I take Ubers and cabs (and Blade) all the time. It's convenient. And sometimes, yes, I just want a quiet space in which to relax. But pretending it's safer is simply untrue.
Wait we went from simple assault to comparing it just to homicides now? I just don't want to get attacked or slashed by somebody.
Okay you lived in NY for 10 years, I lived there for over 40. The subway is shit compared to where it was only a handful of years ago. In the last years that I was there, Uber was way safer.
Also I said "fatalities", which isn't just murder and isn't even necessarily a crime. There were 39 homicides in the subway[1] during that same period. So it's not less. But also those are murders whereas the 23 were mostly from accidents.
> you’re in less danger of experiencing issues on the subway than you are getting hit on the road
For what it's worth, I lived in New York for ten years and was in one car accident (cabbie, distracted by whatever phone all they're all constantly dialled into, blew through a stop sign) and zero even closer calls on the subway.
I spent a week in NYC in 2014. Used the subway a lot, but mostly within Manhattan. Don't remember having any issues except a few stations smelling of shit and the card readers on the turnstiles being very picky about the speed of your swipe.
I used to get on a 2/3 with the same driver at the same time a lot and he was REALLY into announcing in great detail how to get to the PATH with his volume absolutely cranked. It got so annoying that I'd actually get off and wait for the next one. Don't need whole minutes of announcements on how you have to go up the stairs and look for signs and yadda yadda. I got podcasts to listen to, man.
So the longest subway ride in NYC is 24km (15 miles) and 1h long? We have multiple underground lines farther than this in Berlin with the longest being 32km (20 miles). But don't get fooled, the issues are the same.
Delays, vandalized carts, people jumping on tracks, intoxicated people on the train, buskers, no AC in the summer / heating in the winter, people talking on speakerphone / not wearing headphones, ...
It's a game. You're supposed to click on the different route options that are presented to you on the bottom of the screen. That's why it goes slower the more options there are.
But I also just followed it for the first time from beginning to end, not doing anything. Because I assumed someone had already done the math.
Like other people, I first missed that this is a game where you have to choose your connections, not just a demo showing off the developer's solution.
If you want to optimize this with software you can apparently get machine-readable topology of the system via
https://www.mta.info/developers
and write your own graph traversal pessimizer for it. (Easier for stops/graph diameter maximization rather than physical distance, which I don't think is included in this particular dataset.)
It's like you couldn't write a more ambiguous title if you tried!
When i was younger I would sometimes ride the F-train back and forth several times in the evenings just so I could think and put articulate thoughts into a notebook. This is before underground network connectivity, before smartphones, etc. The hum of the train was great and the speed of the F train at segments of Queens were exhilarating, a bit like listening to EDM while coding.
I used to do a few different versions of this for most of the 30+ years I lived in NY. I used to love walking all over manhattan alone late at night. I would do like 10 mile walks just for the heck of it with music going. Or I would hop on the bike and do similarly.
When there would be friends involved, we'd usually be at Chinatown Fair all night until close, then walk down to Elevated Acre and hang out there (this was pre-9/11) until 3 or 4, then walk our friends from Staten Island to the Ferry. If the mood was particularly good, we'd take the ferry with them and then ride it back and everyone go their separate ways.
There used to be houseboats around lower manhattan back then and it was a nice (albeit sketchy) walk from Chinatown down to the tip of the island. There was also pretty briefly this wild hole-in-the-wall DUMBO nightclub projecting porn on the walls that we would frequently stumble into on our way down there.
Things like that were honestly the best part about living in NY, but also it's long in the past.
Similar! I think my experiences were best captured by the song SOFI TUKKER - Summer In New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuSci5BSyQ
A lot of this went away, not sure why. People are too glued to phones.
Summer 2020 I was out there after creating as much shareholder value as I could at my then-WFH 9-5. First it was delivering postmates on rollerblades, then I did it on my bike (working better and better apps every time to offset the depreciation inherent to riding a bike), then I'd just do a 4 boro bike tour Brooklyn over the Pulaski bridge up to Astoria, get souvlaki, take the Triboro to the Bronx and then head to Manhattan on a different bridge every time (High Bridge is still my fave). Just putting up like 40–60 mile rides noodling around that town. There's no better way to see the city, and no better place to bop around on a bike, in my experience.
Some folk on YouTube played a game like this (Snake) in real life with the South Korean rail network. It's Jet Lag: The Game - a great show, most seasons are different games. I think the one where they played Snake is one of their more complex seasons - they also play Hide and Seek and Tag across continents, and games like that.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ZcpBcwdC4ZwbTbCqIC...
Love Jet Lag! I think Snake was a good idea but didn't turn out so well in execution. The game design of their current season in Taiwan has been great
I'm curious what someone who actually knows NYC could do.
74 stations, 41.42 miles, 3:23, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare Starting from Pelham Bay Park on the 6
Definitely don't know the system like some people do, but: 102 stations, 60.09 miles, 4:19, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare: 6 > M > 7 > D > Q > S > C > A.
Fun game :)
The Prospect Park S is such a weird train. I love it.
(Not from NYC, but)
I found it hard to navigate due to not being able to see far enough ahead and not knowing which transfer to take to head in the direction I want (is it Ⓡ Forest Hills-71 Av or Ⓡ Bay Ridge-95 St to head left/East at Lexington Av/59 St?). So, uh, I planned ahead using the subway diagram [1] (is that cheating?). I got:
127 stations, 69.92 miles, 5:02, 4 boroughs, $3.00
Fun challenge!
[1] https://www.mta.info/map/5256
173 stations, 85.05 miles, 6:53, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare.
In fairness a couple of my connections required knowledge of express vs local stops and I don’t think it’s fair to expect an out of towner to know that!
My strategy was to avoid midtown as long as I possibly could because so many lines intersect there. It's funny how you end up leaning on the part of the system you know best. For me that was Brooklyn. Atlantic Terminal is really key there. Could probably have made more mileage out of Queens/Bronx but wasn't confident.
More importantly, I need to put this thing down before I lose the entire day.
First time playing.
133 stations, 71.73 miles, 5:28, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare
My route was 6 to R to 7 to L to J to M to F to N to D to 4.
The game was somewhat frustrating because despite the animation slowing down at transfer stations I still find myself thinking too slowly to press the right transfer button. I missed some transfers that could make it longer. I wish there were a pause button. I generally don’t like games where thinking is combined with reaction times so I didn’t feel like playing it a second time.
Now I'm wondering what the longest Underground trip is without visiting a given line more than once. Probably needs a rule about the District and Circle lines where they overlap since you could get a lot of mileage out of that.
(I calculated the shortest one that includes all lines back in the early 2000s but they've obviously changed things around since then.)
My gut feeling would be Chesham/harrow/rayners lane/hammersmith/edgeware/earls court/green park/stockwell/embankment/elephant/bank/aldgate east/liverpool st/bond street/baker/kingsx/cockfosters
A route out to Epping via Newbury Park would be another option though, probably elephant/bank/kingx/green park/bond instead.
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
Are you saying F/G AND any line serving less affluent areas? Because if not, the G (save for maybe 2-3 stops in Bed-Stuy) is all affluent neighborhoods.
Pfft, there's no G train, it's just a psych experiment to see how long people will wait at a fake train station before giving up and seeking alternative transportation.
Right! I don't have hard data on this, but I would guess the only line that spends more of its run in affluent areas is the Q.
there's a reason even the announcer says "transfer here to the F'in G line"
On the one hand, this sort of thing feels inexcusable to me. In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation.
On the other, the NYC subway is one of the few 24/7 subway systems in the world, which makes me envious somewhat. Ours closes at midnight and opens around 5 AM.
IMO the subway reliability issues are overblown these days. In the 2010s it was in a really dark spot but it's doing a lot better these days.
> In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation.
Even with its problems the NYC subway still is. Traffic is a nightmare. I have friends who insist on taking a cab to the airport because it's more reliable then end up complaining because they're still on the Belt Parkway or whatever.
In the 2010s it was so bad that I gave up on the subway and either walked, Ubered or took the bus everywhere.
When the MTA bus is better than the subway, things in NY are grim -- it was like the 80s & early 90s again.
The reliability has improved a bit, but the subway crime is also way, way up. So yeah, still a hard pass.
In the mid 2010s i had a reverse commute from Manhattan to Brooklyn and there was a few months where 3 days a week my full commute would take 2hr+ (midtown to sunset park) because the train just sat multiple times not moving. Especially on the bridge where it could be up to an hour just stopped.
The absolute worst time that I ever remember though was maybe in '89 or '90. The Lex-53rd st E/F station had a ton of ongoing construction and on weekends it was being used as a transfer station only that summer. All the staircases were closed and you could only get in/out via train -- this idea seems insane to me but that's NYC sometimes and especially in that era.
Anyway, my family and I were on a train passing through that station one Saturday or Sunday morning on the way to Queens and they made us exit the train inside the station as it was going out of service. Apparently a pipe had burst (I think?) and no trains were in service. The AC in the station was not working and it was maybe 90+ degrees underground. Plus water was leaking from everywhere. And there were hundreds of us trapped on a crowded, wet, dirty platform for like 4-6 hours while no trains were running and there was no way to get out.
Aside: that Belt Parkway story is why people from NY who live/work in Manhattan try to never fly out of JFK. That's the real solution. So much easier to get to EWR/LGA.
> The reliability has improved a bit, but the subway crime is also way, way up.
Eh, it’s all relative, I think you’re in less danger of experiencing issues on the subway than you are getting hit on the road. I take the subway all the time and have never had any problems.
Subway assaults went up 3x between 2009 and 2025 and violent crime in general in the subway has had nearly a 20% spike just in the first two months of this year alone. Assaults by repeat offenders are up 2x from 2019 to 2025.
I'll take a minor fender bender every now and again over someone hitting me in the head with a brick ever.
I can't believe the suggestion is that property damage and/or low-speed collisions would be preferable to being assaulted. And I've been tapped by cars and walked away from it several times. Plus the "well it never happened to me" is just survivorship bias. Over enough decades and enough rides something fucked up on the subway _will_ happen to you eventually.
This is the kind of thinking that I left NY over.
2009 was a historic low point for subway crimes. Only looking at relative numbers from then is misleading.
There were 573 assaults on the subway in 2024, up from something like 150 in 2009. There were something like 1.9 billion journeys taken that year. Avoiding the subway because of the 1 in 2,000,000 danger of assault is not rational.
Exaggerated paranoid thinking is indeed the thing that leads a lot of people to unnecessarily leave NYC.
573 _felony_ assaults. Misdemeanor assault is still a thing. That includes people fighting you with their fists or groping you.
Also anyone in NY with a functioning brain knows just how underreported subway crime is. You can either get where you're going and go about your day or end it by trying to find a cop and then trying to get them motivated to even take your report.
2009 being a low point for crime should just be normal. I lived through all the bad decades in NY and you're not there yet but certainly trending towards it.
I like how multiple years of "hey why does all of this fucked up shit keep happening to me?" is "exaggerated paranoid thinking". Truly stunning and brave. Being repeatedly victimized by random crime is just a mindset, bruh.
OK, so you’re going to cite numbers when they agree with you then say “everyone knows the numbers are wrong” when they don’t?
This is not a conversation worth continuing. By your own admission you don’t even live in the city any more!
> certainly trending towards it.
which is also untrue! Subway crime was down across the board in 2025.
> I'll take a minor fender bender every now and again over someone hitting me in the head with a brick ever
You're more than 7x more likely to die in a car in New York than on the subway. If you're the kind of idiot that voluntarily trespasses onto the tracks, you're 2x more likely.
In 2023, 112 motor-vehicle occupants died in New York [1] "97 people were fatally struck by subway trains" [2], nearly half (49%) of which are suicides and 33% of which are accidents, almost all of which involve voluntarily trespassing onto the tracks [3]. Five people were killed by assault [4].
[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-dat...
[2] https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/04/11/mta-operators-subway-coll...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40405368/
[4] https://www.mta.info/document/131556
In 2023 exactly two Uber passengers died in NYC. One from jumping out of their moving vehicle onto the LIE and the other from being rear-ended by a drag racer on the Whitestone Expressway.
The alternative to taking the subway for the vast majority of NYC residents is not driving to work.
And as an Uber passenger living in NYC I overwhelmingly spent my time on roads that were not highways.
I can't find exact taxi passenger deaths but between 2019 & 2023 there were 23 passenger fatalities across all rideshare services and taxis. At least one of those was a fatal drug overdose (2022).
> between 2019 & 2023 there were 23 passenger fatalities across all rideshare services and taxis
Which is way more than the total number of homicides on the subway system. All of this is before adjusting for trip frequency. (Uber and Lyft do about a fifth of the trips as the subway.)
I lived in New York for 10 years and go back frequently. I take Ubers and cabs (and Blade) all the time. It's convenient. And sometimes, yes, I just want a quiet space in which to relax. But pretending it's safer is simply untrue.
Wait we went from simple assault to comparing it just to homicides now? I just don't want to get attacked or slashed by somebody.
Okay you lived in NY for 10 years, I lived there for over 40. The subway is shit compared to where it was only a handful of years ago. In the last years that I was there, Uber was way safer.
Also I said "fatalities", which isn't just murder and isn't even necessarily a crime. There were 39 homicides in the subway[1] during that same period. So it's not less. But also those are murders whereas the 23 were mostly from accidents.
[1]: 2019: 3, 2020: 6, 2021: 8, 2022: 7, 2023: 5, 2024: 10 (source: compstat).
> you’re in less danger of experiencing issues on the subway than you are getting hit on the road
For what it's worth, I lived in New York for ten years and was in one car accident (cabbie, distracted by whatever phone all they're all constantly dialled into, blew through a stop sign) and zero even closer calls on the subway.
I spent a week in NYC in 2014. Used the subway a lot, but mostly within Manhattan. Don't remember having any issues except a few stations smelling of shit and the card readers on the turnstiles being very picky about the speed of your swipe.
> or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
Are there any lines that don’t, at some point, serve less affluent neighborhoods? The midtown shuttle I suppose…
Is this like the travelling salesman problem, but looking for the longest, not shortest journey?
Finding the longest path in a graph is itself a pretty well-described NP-complete problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_path_problem
Alternately, you can listen to a Billy Joel parody that describes the problem in decidedly less academic terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ww0gwEszo
Hmm fun study topic: which major algorithms stay the same when you "invert" their goal, and which don't?
Where invert can mean at the least: switch max/min or gt/lt, but also for find the subset, find what's not in the subset. At the least.
Fun. Needs sound effects, in particular someone muttering "Hoyt–Schermerhorn next" over a crackling intercom.
Don't forget the wheel squeal... is there a transmission protocol for conveying the cornucopia of odors?
Also needs the occasional mariachi music and someone yelling “It’s showtime!”
The one or two times I uncontrollably shat myself on the subway, I at least had the decency to do it in a tunnel and between cars.
I used to get on a 2/3 with the same driver at the same time a lot and he was REALLY into announcing in great detail how to get to the PATH with his volume absolutely cranked. It got so annoying that I'd actually get off and wait for the next one. Don't need whole minutes of announcements on how you have to go up the stairs and look for signs and yadda yadda. I got podcasts to listen to, man.
So the longest subway ride in NYC is 24km (15 miles) and 1h long? We have multiple underground lines farther than this in Berlin with the longest being 32km (20 miles). But don't get fooled, the issues are the same.
Can you please elaborate more on these issues?
Delays, vandalized carts, people jumping on tracks, intoxicated people on the train, buskers, no AC in the summer / heating in the winter, people talking on speakerphone / not wearing headphones, ...
I did the same on the first ride. It is a game, you have to go jumping on different lines to get your longest.
It's a game. You're supposed to click on the different route options that are presented to you on the bottom of the screen. That's why it goes slower the more options there are.
But I also just followed it for the first time from beginning to end, not doing anything. Because I assumed someone had already done the math.
Isn't it _just_ the U7 that's longer? The U5 is the 2nd longest and that's 22km and just a ~45 min ride.