Meet the Woman Who’s Driven Every Road in Monroe County

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It took him more than four years, but Daryl Dear Cubitt walked the last street in Monroe County a week ago.

Berkeley Brean, New10NBC’s chief investigative reporter, met her at the finish line.

Brean“Thirty-eight million feet. You’ve traveled 38 million feet.”

Elbow: “I believe so, yes.”

Brean:”That was the finish line.”

Elbow: “Yes it was.”

Brean:“And what was it like to cross the finish line?”

Elbow:“It was exciting, but I was a little emotional because I spent over four years doing this.”

The last street on Cubitt’s route was Zygment Street, off Hudson Avenue, next to Franklin High School. She chose this side street because it was in the neighborhood where she grew up.

Cubitt walked and ran every road in Monroe County:

“And I’m geeky enough that I wanted to end on a Z-shaped street, which made sense to me,” she said.

Cubitt has always been a runner. In 2019, thanks to a tracking device, she discovered that she was covering every inch of Brighton on foot or by running.

Then she was challenged by her sister.

“It was a family dinner and she said, ‘So, are you going to do the whole county?’ I laughed! I said, ‘Oh, I should live that long.’”

Daryl Cher Cubitt

But Cubitt began walking: to Irondequoit, to Greece, along the lake, into the city.

By 2022, she had already completed more than half of the work.

Most people waved at her, offered her a ride or food, or asked if she was lost.

There were only a few scary moments, including being chased by a guy on a lawnmower in Rush.

“He cut me off, jumped off his riding lawn mower and said with his arms outstretched, ‘Do I know you?’ And it was scary.”

But Cubit continued on his way.

She hand-drew maps of her walks and almost every day, including Christmas Day, she would mark off another block.

And on Tuesday, July 9, she walked down Zygment Street and was arrested.

Brean: “When our viewers see this story, is there anything you would like them to take away from it?”

Elbow:“If you feel like doing something crazy, just do it! Even if you think it’s going to take forever and you’re not sure you’ll be able to finish it, just do it.”

This is what the final map looks like:

Every street, every road, every bus loop in Monroe County – covered.