Subway Challenge

In Class A, "the contestants making the run must traverse completely at least once each segment of right-of-way of the Transit Authority system.

Since then, more than 70 others – supposedly recorded in an unofficial file in the MTA Public Relations Department – rode the entire system.

Searching for a diversion while training to become the first person to bicycle the entire length of The Great Wall in China, Foster opened up the Guinness Book of World Records to find another challenge.

The Guinness record rules allow a rider to exit and re-enter the system during the course of the run, and contestants may walk or take "scheduled public transport" between stations.

[24] The Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee is not an official body and does not validate any record attempts, nor does the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

On August 23–24, 2006, Donald Badaczewski and Matt Green made a run setting the skip-stop record.

During their run, a Class C attempt as defined by the Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee, they were required to pass through, but not necessarily stop at, each station.

[25][26][27][28] An AM New York article suggested that the news environment at the time created a perfect opening for such a lighthearted story.

On December 28–29, 2006, a Class B attempt was made by former classmates from Regis High School in Manhattan, representing all five boroughs of New York City, with a sixth member from New Jersey.

[12] On November 18–19, 2013, the record was beaten by a team of six Britons, including Glen Bryant from Emsworth, with a new time of 22 hours, 26 minutes, and 2 seconds.

[15][17] Three members of the British team were former record holders for the Tube Challenge, and thus became the first people to achieve the feat on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The first other network to be granted a record was the Paris Métro; Alan Paul Jenkins achieved a time of 11 hours and 13 minutes for travelling to 270 stations (with 7 closed) on August 30, 1967.

[41] The Berlin U-Bahn had its first record set on May 2, 2014, by Michael Wurm, Henning Colsman-Freyberger, Rudolf von Grot and Oliver Ziemek.

[44] Although, this record was beaten earlier by Delhiite Shashank Manu on April 14, 2021 with a time of 15 hours, 22 minutes 49 seconds covering all 286 stations, it was not recognized by Guniness as a result of a mix up until June 25, 2023.