A year of your subway rides

The commute you searched for, from to , has a median trip time of about .

The chart above represents sample travel times over the past 14 months, based on more than a year of trip records from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Each dot represents one commute, including waits and transfers but not walks to and from stations.

It reveals a wide and often frustrating variability in morning subway commutes — something most statistics fail to capture, yet something most New Yorkers intuitively understand.

That is, to get to work on time, your typical trip doesn’t actually matter very much. What matters more is your commute time when the subway is at its slowest, and how often those kinds of trips happen.

For the commute you selected, about one in 20 trips can take or more, effectively adding to your commute. If you need to be on time, you’ll have to account for those minutes.

How your commute has changed in the last year

Over the past eight weeks, this commute has been about the same speed and about as reliable as it was in the same span a year ago.

Here’s how much time you’ll need to allocate for your commute depending on how often you’re willing to be late.

How your commute time has changed, week by week

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A compact chart with more dark squares indicates less variability, meaning more of the daily commutes were within a narrower range of times.