{"id":1457,"date":"2006-08-24T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/will_records_fall.html"},"modified":"2006-08-24T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T17:42:52","slug":"will_records_fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/will_records_fa.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Records Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guinness officials say that Matt Green and Don Badaczewski &#8212; the two subway aficionados who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/but_what_if_you.html\">attempted to break subway navigation records<\/a> &#8212; will not have a bona fide record because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/record_derailed_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan.htm\">they did not stop at every station<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The next stop will not be the record books for the two MetroCard Magellans seeking to navigate the entire subway system in less than 25 hours and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what time Matthew Green, 26, and Donald Badaczewski, 24, finish this morning, Guinness World Records officials say the duo will have failed because &#8220;they did not follow the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Guinness, the &#8220;rules&#8221; require riders to stop at every station.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this obviously needs further research, since, a) that&#8217;s not what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gricer.com\/anysrc\/anysrc.html\">the Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee rules say<\/a>* and b) wouldn&#8217;t it be impossible to stop at every station?<\/p>\n<p>*Then again, if you understand rules like &#8220;During the run, the contestants making the run must, for each platform group in the Transit Authority system, at least once either a) board a train from a platform in that platform group, or b) depart from a train at a platform in that platform group, or c)pass through that station on a train which stops to load or discharge passengers at a platform in that platform group&#8221; then maybe you deserve to hand out Guinness records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinness officials say that Matt Green and Don Badaczewski &#8212; the two subway aficionados who attempted to break subway navigation records &#8212; will not have a bona fide record because they did not stop at every station: The next stop will not be the record books for the two MetroCard Magellans seeking to navigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}