I visited all 97 DC Metro stations in 8h 36m (WORLD RECORD)
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2023
- The kind of thing a boring day off from school makes you do
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Intro music: Trinergy - Bye
That's the beauty of the Washington Metro transit system: so many connections EVERYWHERE that it's nearly impossible to NOT go places. I am sure you have noticed that there are a LOT of bus lines that interconnect in Montgomery, Prince George's, Fairfax, and Loudon counties that will get you into and out of DC itself. That's the making of a great system utilizing ALL of the available connections, and congratulations for setting the record!
Plus there is a Streetcar line from near Union Station to the east side of Washington D.C. Unfortunately it was not built to the front of Union Station where until 1962 there were streetcars on the second sidewalk behind where the taxis delivered their passengers to the front door. Why? Well we have stupid city planning!
Congrats! It was interesting to learn that the shortest distance between 2 metro stations is sometimes a bus!
Especially when two stations are many miles apart.
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Well done! I set the record for 91 in 2019 and had equally crappy weather. If we hadn't held outside nearly all of my transfer points, I had 91 timed to 7hrs 34 mins. Oh well. I'm waiting for PY to open before I go again. I'm pretty sure I remember you were also in the lead car of the first revenue Ashburn train back in November. Glad to see a fellow enthusiast do this and share their journey. I wish I hadn't had a bunch of rules to follow for my run so I could've put something cool like this together for others. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you watched! I can’t wait until all the competition after PY. Tons of people have told me they plan to do it, I wonder if something huge can be coordinated
@@lewnwdc When I applied to Guinness to make it an "official" record (bc I thought DC, as a national capital, deserved that prestige), they gave me a set of rules I had to follow, mostly for documenting every step of the journey since nobody would be there with me to verify. So I had to film the whole thing, get witnesses to sign at the beginning, end, and throughout, take timestamped photos of each stop, document arrival and departure time at each station, stop watch start/stop time rules, etc. Adds an extra layer of challenge, but I wish I could've just enjoyed the ride more and not had to pay attention to *every* stop for 8 hours to make sure I got a time stamped photo of the station name signs, etc. Following those rules for NYC or London would be just brutal.
For what it was like for me as a boy back in the 1960s when there were no rules it took me 2 years in the summer to ride every subway line in my old hometown of NYC. Check out my comment above in the comments section about that ! 😊
This is an amazing and well-produced video! Can't wait to beat your record when Potomac Yards opens ;)
I am the undisputed champ around here. Good luck buddy
@@floppavideo I mean if you wanted to do it together I'd be down...emails in my about page if you'd like to reach out!
@classywhale @floppavideo I'm down to give this a shot now that Potomac Yards is open
Very nostalgic. Went to DC in 2011 to air and space museum. That's what got me into planes. Love the vid.
You're the first I know to do it with the new silver line extension. I did it in 2018 in 7:59 and the record at the time iirc was 7:20. Nice job though! I've been waiting for the yellow (and purple) lines to come in before I do another attempt
The extension to Ashburn definitely adds a considerable amount of time but there were a lot of other places where the run could have been optimized (I did it on a whim, no planning beforehand). If service thru Rosslyn was running as normal, and I had a better transfer to the RideOn10, I likely could have cut up to 30 minutes off. When the yellow line reopens in May I plan to do it again. It should make it even faster
@lewnwdc depends how plan on getting off that branch. I've looked at options of taking the blue line north to Arlington then doubling back to switch to the yellow at pentagon. It works, in very rare circumstances.
I'm waiting for the purple line before I bother another run. I have a route planned which hits 7:40 with perfect luck, but probably averages an hour longer
@lewnwdc true but I still count it. Plus it runs by my house so I'm biased
@@floppavideo I wonder if it will ever be extended further out to Leesburg one day.
In my time in my old hometown of NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s, it took me 2 summers after the school year was over to ride every subway line from end to end except for the Myrtle Ave El to Downtown Brooklyn which happened in the summer of 1968 with my late parents and my little brother. At the Bridge Jay Street Terminal we could see the stone towers of the Brooklyn Bridge about 4 blocks from the platform. Until October 1969 there was joint subway and wooden elevated trains that shared the same tracks on part of their routes from 1905 til 1969. Such were the exciting days in Old NYC and Old America! 😊
another enthusiast of both floppa and transit.. very nice
I am also planning to do this! Congrats! I will definitely look into some of the shortcuts you used.
I think I may have found the best routing for if you do it generally, but you’d want to really look into the timing- I bet there’s a specific combo that somehow gives you tons of perfect transfers. Once you get a good “on a whim I can get pretty close to the record if I get lucky enough” thing you gotta go in-depth
@@floppavideo I started trying to plan a route of my own. I think I started it at New Carrollton and finished at Shady Grove
This is an certified railfan moment 👍
Floppa and public transit, the ultimate crossover
I think the Silver Line has the most stations 34 station stops, compared to the Blue and Red lines with 27 stops. Since you caught many of the Metrorail stations, you are a lucky ducky. I may not want to combine bus trips with riding Metrorail. I hope the battery in your camera will be fresh enough to make it up and running than grease lightning! I am a rapid transit buff.
Congrats, man! You made me miss taking the Metro.
Congrats! Terrific video!
W bro congrats on the achievement!
The OP move is to time this so that you can take the 494 express bus between Tysons and Franconia-Springfield.
This would be my hypothetical itinerary once the yellow line reopens:
Leave around 11:50AM on a weekday
Silver -Ashburn to McLean
Walk 8 mins to 494 at 12:29 to Franconia-Springfield
Blue Line to King St
Yellow Line to Huntington
Yellow Line to Greenbelt
MARC to Union Station
Red Line to Shady Grove, then back to Twinbrook
Bus to Wheaton
Red line to Glenmont, then back to Union
MARC to New Carrollton
Orange line to Stadium Armory
Blue/Silver to Largo Town Center, then Blue to Arlington Cemetery, back up to Rosslyn
Orange to Vienna
(And I just realized I forgot the southern section of the green line, I'll think of how to add it eventually)
I looked up the MARC and metro schedules and this should work without any long transfers.
*Interstate 495*
This is so cool! I'm gonna try to do this in the summer when I'm back in DC and the Yellow Line reopens :D
Great Video👍🏼 nice to see everything in the area.
Nice job, you were super lucky on those trains!
the music is so nice for a world record video lmao
I don't need to use Metro on my office commute, but was actually out the same evening you did this speed-run... with over half of an inch of rain at DCA I would call that "driving rain" as there's only an average of 29 days annually with precipitation at or in excess of half of an inch (12.7 mm), or less than 1 in 12 days.
Without speed-running (and only the 1 usage of Huntington being sub-optimal), I've passed through 84 stations by rail so far, the exceptions being:
- Franconia/Springfield
- Green Line southeast of the Anacostia River (6 stations)
- Morgan Blvd and Largo
- New Carrollton [only via MARC / Amtrak, which doesn't count]
- Silver Line west of VA-28 (IAD, Loudoun Gateway, and Ashburn)
Nice that you chose the 3000 over the 7000 at glenmont. Those are going to be retiring soon.
congrats - awesome job!
DC ridership takes the rules seriously. I once saw a guy light up a cigarette on an open platform, and I thought the commuters were gonna push him onto the tracks! 😂
Have added this run to the DC Metro's Wikipedia page, since it read as if Wall's run was still the record holder. May try to best it at some point this summer myself.
Someone undid it :/
Found an article that will (hopefully) keep that edit up.
Added a post in the talk section, pls link article to it.
Ah, our famous single tracking.
On the older trains the 6000s you can charge things underneath the seats
Thanks for that! And only the 6000-series? not the 3000-series or 2000-series?
@@CaradhrasAiguo49 not sure to be honest but probably
Yery interested to see how the reopening of the yellow and, eventually, the new purple line will affect the meta, great vid!
TIL that speedrunning the DC metro is a thing, lol.
Hey my man, loved the video, but since your voice is sort of low, I think it would do you a lot of good to lower the background audio when you're doing a voiceover, I can barely hear you. Keep on keepin on! You got some real nice shots for this video!
If you ever got to Atlanta, you could also try doing the MARTA Station challenge, that system is smaller than DC but still is a lot of fun.
I wanna try and see if I can go to every station ina day I'm not necessarily trying to break the record but the idea of being at every station ina day sounds interesting
I like how it's called a "world record" lol. Impressive!
Congratulations my good man well deserved😎😎😎💎💎💎
Such a sick video and I think I might wanna do this as well! Do you mind if you let me know the name of the app you were using to track your time?
I did all of the Maryland Stops on New Year's Day because I found out that doing all of them would be over 9 hours. The new Virginia stops weren't worth goind to at that late time. I started at 1:56Pm and finished 8:46Pm
i messaged my buddy in DC to beat this speedrun becaue i dont beliveve you went fast enough and it's easily beatable ill keep you updated
This is awesome!
Congratulations on conquering the WMATA GAUNTLET
It could be quicker if the yellow line wasn't closed. The yellow is a shortcut into DC as the blue line takes longer as it has many more stops to DC
Congrats that was awesome. When they open the new yellow station at Potomac yards you gonna try it again?
Congratulations! Now do all the NYC subway stations plus the Staten Island Railway.
bro LOL 🤣
I have done that. Personal best is 26hr 50 minutes. There's a sub 24hr routing out there but construction in NYC ( we dont count Staten Island for this exercise) subways only happens on 21-28 days notice has to be worked around.
Congratulations dude.
i read the title as completing this in 38 minutes total😭 anyways we need the purple line RNNNNN
I love Undertime Floppa
Congrats!
Sounds like a fun idea. Too bad my city doesn't have any kind of rail to be able to do this.
What day of the week and time of the day did you do this? Just saw your segment on NBC. Congrats!
Perfect !
Hero moves.
Washington DC’s Metro is the third or fourth largest subway system in America!
this is great! great job! im planning on doing this in june do you have any tips?
Best parts we’re seeing my stations hyattsvile and pg plaza we have the fastest trains 😂over here
great video how do u not have more subs
Glad you didn’t get on that P12 to Eastover 😂😂
Should have stopped at Wheaton to ride the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere
The old announcer is the best.
Imagine doing this for the three MARC lines...
what is that app you were using? i would like to try the same for my city, buenos aires!
Wow! I was on metro (Jan 25th)!
This would be an amazing feat if you'd do this with amtrak transit 😆 🤣
very cool!
🔥🔥🎉
lmao i never even realized metros could be speedran and i might do something like that in my home city nanjing, love from china
CONGRATS
what app is ghat you're using to keep time?
fucking epic sir, well done
wowie
That was 👍 good
When did you stop at McPherson Square?
i really wish they expanded the metro in prince georges county a lot of room for expansion also fairfax county too and montgomery county for the red line to go up to germantown
imagine if orange line terminated at Bowie instead
congrats! what app did you use to record the time
Strava ✅
W Video
Lived there for thirty years. Silver Line? Never heard of it! But at least it matches my hair.
dude i dare you to speed run all marta rail stations in atlanta
That freaking computer voice that plays in the station must really bug the regular metro riders.
Wait do you live in Maryland or NoVa if so I didn't know caracal cats are legal here
Uh oh, they just built a new station on the blue line... You might need to do it all over again
nice leotrix
What stopwatch app did you use?
I *_SO_* wanna do this!
good content
5:28 thank you for censoring the inappropriate language! There might be kids watching and they should grow up knowing it only as National or DCA
Wow! There is a record for everything. Just curious, if you enter a station and stay in the system all day and come out from the same station, how is the fare calculated?
Hmm, what's the criteria for riding the whole system? Is it passing through every station or passing over every piece of track? Because if it's the latter then you missed the part between Capitol Heights and Addison Road, as well as the Red line past Brookland. I assumed before watching that it would be passing through every station.
No matter, I enjoyed the video. And congrats on the record!
@@lewnwdc OK, good to know
I wanna try this with MARTA
what apps did you use for this?
GG
I wanna do the same thing since I am in DC now!
I’m gonna do this on Thursday, maybe I’ll beat the record, but I bet my route is much less optimal than yours
Ride On FTW!!!
edit: I never knew Minnesota Avenue Station is a thing
did you use apple maps to plan this?
Do the Boston subway and the nyc lol
Are you from Philly? I heard a "jawn" in there at Glenmont.
DMV heads started saying jawn too
@@5hiranai I don’t know what DC, you talking about but not the District of Columbia, DC slang is more of Ji/ jai/ jah - adv. Really/ very (used for emphasis)
Jont - noun. A place; a word used to describe something (ex. referring to a car: “That jont is fast”; a thing/ anything
Why do you only have two videos?
Goated
Did you go to Potomac Yards Station? It just opened up recently!
This one is basically outdated as in the map it’s called “future station”
@@the2ndmedal Oh! I understand.
can you make the jump from mcpherson to farragut north?
Although it's only 4 blocks from McPherson's I & 14th exit to Farragut North's Connecticut / 17th & K exit, it's not a free transfer
Do you know how much this ended up costing you? I imagine all of the runs to the end of the line added up!
The way metro works. You tap your card to enter the station and then again to leave. Any time spent inside the system is free. Theoretically if you start the trip and end the trip at the same location which out ever leaving the system you're spending less than $5
You can also get an unlimited daily pass. Might be worth it
You missed McPherson from what I can see. As you took the bus from Farragut West to Farragut north. Or, am I missing something? Either why, looks like a great record to beat! Congrats!
I decided against that option (right after the graphic you can see me showing up at metro center)
@@floppavideo I had to watch again. My mistake. Great job!