Green line, not surprising. Red line would be tough, but definitely on a bike. I used to bike the city, got a tad chilly in Jan Feb but the rest of the year was fine

I will say they have done a tremendous job in speeding up the red line. It used to take 40 monis to get from Andrew to Kendall at 5:40 am and sometimes an hour at 3:00 pm to take it back. This was during the summer of '24. As of today, both the 5:40 and 3:00 trains take me about 18 mins to cover the same distance.

out run it? I literally out walk it every day to work and back

It's so weid seeing the places from my sisty in a youtube video seen by almost 8.5k people! Happy Bostoning!

So true about the bike light on Washington St. in Brookline.

So grateful to be living in New York!

NINETY-FOUR PERCENT geezus

Casey Neistat of Boston?

what a beautiful movie

Great video and super well produced. The use of actual music as opposed to stock youtube music was also particularly refreshing

Man, this video is incredible! Great work Matt! I’d love to see our trains improve to hit their new PB, but I guess we’ll just have to train harder. 😎 and I’m def running this in ‘25.

I live in Somerville I completely forgot that woman jumped out of the train into the river lmao I was crying laughing when that happened because it was completely unnecessary and she could have walked off like everyone else

Great video - but also illustrates why everyone ditches the B at Cleveland Circle to catch the C or the D

This is fun, but I think if average people tried instead of regular runners the trains would do much better.

I go to Northeastern and saw this bike on my way to class every day this past semester and had no idea what it was for, thank you for doing this and for making this video!

MBTA is garbage, i can walk faster than all the trains, especially the old redline and the current green line, then they just shut down half the stations

Outrun? I've outwalked it around BU before.

Really interesting! I do feel like it is a little unfair to choose the green line and use that as a representative as the whole T system, but definitely point made. I hope Boston can restrict more car access to make the city better for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport.

Once during Boston marathon I met up with my dad (runner) on the Heartbreak Hill, then I went to the nearest station (Newton Center) to go to Coply where the finishing line is. My dad finished the race before I got out of the station. But that was including around 10 minutes of waiting time.

I’ve taken the public transport in almost every major US city and the MBTA is by FAR the worst. I don’t know how the MBTA still operates or the city hasn’t been sued

the casey neistat influence here is beautiful. well done really good video

Love the video! Where do you get those awesome print maps that you use in this video? I’d like to use something similar for an upcoming video :)

As a Bostonian: Keep making Boston films. This was great.

Ok, that's nice, now do an MBTA Commuter Rail train, let's see you run 80 mph through Attleboro

If I remember the news article correctly regarding the orange line fire, no one actually had to jump into the mystic river, that one lady just went rogue. When asked why she jumped, she said something along the lines of 'yah and I'd do it again'

Beautiful shot! On a clear day you can see that mountaintop all the way in Montreal, Quebec!

Nice !! ❤

When I ran the marathon we stayed in Quincy and took the Red Line. My wife and I called it the "walking train". We were bewildered coming from Mpls where we have newer maintained trains. I run or bike commute though since I can run direct routes via our excellent bike infrastructure.

i wouldn't base my own commute on this test because the results are in the favor of running always. in the 1st respect: the T is on tracks, so it can't exactly move with as much freedom as running which means that runners are free to take shortcuts. even in the spirit of the challenge just simply "dodging traffic laws" still leads not following the track as amenable. i say this point is kinda negligable because you make those sacrifices of mobility based on your commute option. the 2nd far more egregious slant is that the T's times are based on average, but the runners times are NOT. the T's fastest time was 46min. so how many runners ran faster than 52min and slower than 46min? not to mention the commute from home to the starting point. how many runners DROVE or took the T or took a cab? it's either average both, OR go off fastest times. the T is for commuting about town. i have a manual labor job that's about a 10k distance away from my home....and i don't wanna be sweaty and outta breath to get there just to save an average of 20-30min on commuting time. even if meeting up with some friends in Kenmore, heading over to Boyleston to see a movie, and heading back to Allston for post movie drinks before heading home i'm so NOT interested in running any of that over just taking the T. also the cost of decent running shoes is minimum $70-$150, but the T is only $2.50 (if you pay fairly per trip)....would you rather ONLY run for a month or buy a monthly T pass? majority of people in the city would rather the T pass over the shoes....and rn when there's snow on the ground, no one is taking running shoes over winter boots. i can say on a nicety that this video is well made. all the info was laid out clearly, it was shot and edited well, and the whole thing was engaging. only points docked for film making skills are you pronounced Philip Eng's last name wrong (say like the main character in Avatar: The Last Airbender...but with an E instead of an A)

It's not that they don't know. It's that they don't care.

In high school in Boston, we’d get off the city bus and race it to the next stop on our way home 😂

Well made!

Love the vid filmed at my school

Eng is doing a great job; I wonder how this will change next year as the MBTA is consolidating a few green line stops and getting rid of a few others

Tank!

1:50 ...yet

I know this is a bit tongue in cheek, but yall did pick the Green Line for a reason. It runs at grade as an on street tram most of the way. No challenge against the renovated red line huh? 😊 Biking does seem to be the real winner here though doesn’t it? That’d be half the time.

Just saying, that lady had no reason to jump off the T. Everybody just calmly walked off like adults. She then refused help when a coastguard boat drove over to pick her up out of the water.

Bitch ass green line lol, great video.

i’ve been biking in boston past these for the last 3 years and never knew their origin…thanks matt!

Let’s not forget about the green line derailment in October tho 🙃

i keep coming back to this video, it's great! now every single time i've considered waiting for the T i think about this video just decide to walk it lol

I would…… but that seems like a whole lotta energy my guy 😭

I’ve been here for six months. I work in Burlington, but I spent the first four in Boston proper right on Boylston It took me 60 days before I realized it was literally faster a walk than it was to take the T. This is mostly because I was already having to walk from the stations and so seeing as like an average like 5 mph I could take more direct routes as opposed to having to route around the stops.

Does this include the “slow zones” they implemented recently?

As a recent Northeastern University graduate, I walked by this bike 3-4 times a week. I've walked by it and wondered what it is, seen it get graffitied and bent, broken and bruised. I don't remember when it was removed, but I remember the first time I walked by the new bike, still not knowing what it was. At some point before my life crossed paths with your video, I learned what a ghost bike was, and as a young cyclist, seeing that bike every week hit me hard. Seeing you bike through Longwood and the Hill with the new bike hit me harder. I don't quite know what to say but know that I am sharing this video with every current student I still know in hopes that this memorial continues to honor this cyclist and is preserved for years to come. Thank you for honoring this cyclist and replacing the bike.

Great video bro

i've wasted so much of my life riding the green line into boston-maybe i should get into running lol

I would have friends "delay" the train by getting stuck in the doors or faking a medical emergency in the train. (I know this is illegal, but it would still work!)

Outrun? You can outwalk it most of the time.