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Friday Video: Runners Versus the Green Line

The Charlie Card Challenge is a 6-mile race along the Green Line's B branch from Boston College to downtown Boston.
A man runs along a train platform next to a Green Line train.
Screenshot from Matt Ognibene's short film, "Can You Outrun Boston's Subway?"

Local filmmaker Matt Ognibene has a new video on the Charlie Card Challenge – an unsanctioned 6-mile road race against the Green Line along the length of the B branch, from Boston College to downtown’s Park Street station.

The Charlie Card Challenge was a bigger challenge this year thanks to the T’s year-long track improvement program, which eliminated 10 slow zones along the B branch since last fall.

We won’t spoil the ending, but we will say the race was closer than you might expect:

Courtesy of Matt Ognibene.

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