Sports gambling tainted all professional sports. I’ll go watch a little league game for athletes performing at their best the whole game.
so many millions angry, but not angry enough to rise up en masse and remove thr thorn
Surely you don’t expect tourists to do what Americans don’t have the balls to do.
not here, no. but whats happening here is also being born in other countries. just as they expect us to fight it off here, i expect them to fight it off there for the same reasons
Fuck professional sports. Get a life, go outside, do some exercise, stop living vicariously through millionaires kicking a plastic ball.
Why not let people enjoy things?
I agree, so why force yourselves onto an entire city? Let us enjoy our city.
You (the royal “you”) can enjoy watching sports if you want… But if you then criticise me for watching Street Fighter 6 EVO tournament stream, then fuck you.
Also, sort out this drinking and gambling problem with sports already.
I also wonder if they’re aware of public drinking/intoxication laws in the US.
As another user mentioned, the Evan Edinger did an interesting video on the transit situation in the last couple weeks
We could have had public transit and commuter trains all over the country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
in the twin cities of minnesota, there was 500+ miles of tracks, nearly 1000 streetcars, and an annual ridership of 200 million. that’s equivalent to every single person that lived there making at least six trips per week, every single week. (modern day metro transit serves over 2.5 million people and has an annual ridership, bus and light rail, of about 45 million)
That’s what happens if you spend money in the FIFA corruption circus: others want to take their share, too.
If you come here you’ll have a bad time
Yeah, I saw that New York/New Jersey transit will be absurdly expensive for getting to MetLife stadium. Everyone is gouging for the World Cup.
FIFA is welcome to make transportation affordable, rather than being a drain on the local economies (and profiting in the billions.) On the other hand, those that can afford a match ticket can afford to spend 1% of that to get to the match.
Increasing bus ticket prices from $12.50 to $100 is not FIFA’s decision. Also, most sane countries use the event as an excuse to invest in public transport and general cleanup of the area for the public good years into the future. The US are the only ones so shortsighted about this stuff.
It kind of was. NJ was supposed to be reimbursed for the extra costs. FIFA did not hold up their end, so NJ raised prices.
I didn’t mean to imply that it’s FIFA’s call, but their profits would not be greatly diminished if they were to cover those costs. I agree about the proper course of action, but would never expect that to happen here in the US. It wasn’t a good call to host here to begin with. The infrastructure isn’t there, and didn’t magically appear in the meantime.
I can’t speak for other countries, but at the world cup in Germany, your ticket to the stadium was your ticket for public transit, and it was all inclusive.
They often do that for large conventions in Germany in general. At least at a city level.
*Laughs in American
You just tell us if you need a socialized hug, okay?
Laughs in $22 train ticket from Sydney Airport to Central Station.
Remember to protect your social services from the neoliberal plague or this could be you.
About 40 years too late for that advice. 😒
The airports can be far away from the city center. I recently paid 10 euros to get to the airport by bus but it was 1h drive. Where I live it’s more like 15 minutes and it’s about 2 euros.
I think it was the same in Russia, it included the visa and public transit, or maybe you could buy a package that included all? 🤔
I think Russia even included long distance public transport, that wasn’t included in Germany if I remember correctly.
Yes you are right, I just asked my friend who attended
You displayed a fifa credential on a lanyard and you could ride long distance trains between host cities and local public transit for free
I dislike FIFA and Russia, but this is how it should be done.
Didn’t it also include special accommodations for homosexuals?
Yes, the US thought of this as a great idea and made the same for everyone with a slightly foreign appearance.
Just wait until you hear what country you have to travel to.
“Country”
“Cuntery”
Yeah, don’t come here. It’s shit.
Well, they have to pay for the peace price somehow.
FIFA, in their infinite wisdom, made the decision to have all the parking around MetLife Stadium used for (paid) fan and merch space. MetLife is primarily built for car traffic, so this is a disaster waiting to happen. Yet another example of their greed and hubris. This was so poorly thought out.
Putting any games at the Medowlands was just dumb as fuck. There are plenty of stadiums in urban centers which would have been great sites and already have lodging, dining, and entertainment infrastructure.
Same with Boston. The games are being played in Foxboro, next to a strip mall, a train ride away from the city (they’ll have the new platform finished by June 12th, promise)
Absolutely, these are really dumb places to pick.
Did FIFA decide that?
These costs should be borne by the organization that is earning money out of these events, which is FIFA. It should not always be the host cities that take on all the expenses,” Gogishvili said, noting the soccer body’s expected $13 billion revenue from 2023-26.
Huge events like this and the Olympics cost local communities a ton of money.
And possibly a lot of costs on unused big new shiny infrastructure after the event.
All the World Cup games are being played in NFL stadiums in the US and existing soccer stadiums in Canada and Mexico. As far as I know there isn’t much new infrastructure being built for this one. The Olympics, on the other hand, have an obscene amount of specialized infrastructure that gets built and is typically abandoned after the games.
While that might be that case for this world in cup, it’s not always like that.
I saw an article that said NY-based fans were warning visiting Europeans not to attempt to walk to the stadium because of how pedestrian hostile it is.
It’s in the middle of wetlands across two rivers and over some cliffs from manhattan. Something like a 6-7 hour walk from midtown despite being like 6 miles away in a straight line
Edit:actually longer. My walking directions took the ferry across the Hudson. To actually walk you’d need to go up to the GWB.
It’s in the middle of wetlands across two rivers and over some cliffs from manhattan. Something like a 6-7 hour walk from midtown despite being like 6 miles away in a straight line
That’s absolutely insane!
That’s like Evil Lair island shit!
We have some world Cup games in my city. The stadium they are using is definitely walkable but it might take about 45 minutes to walk there. The easiest way to get there is the regional rail connection so hopefully the transit authority runs more trains. You can fit 3 or 4k people in a commuter train at crush load so it shouldn’t be terrible.
Considering that new York city has one of the better transit systems in North America I couldn’t imagine how bad it’s going to be in Dallas.
NYC is far from pedestrian hostile.
MetLife stadium is not in NYC, and no reasonable person is going to walk there.
It’s on the city to invest some money to make it walkable in the 6 years since they won the bid. When else are they gonna get a chance to do so?
It’s neither in the city OR THE STATE. Plus, from the article I read it sounds like MetLife/NJ made the bid. https://foxsportsradionewjersey.com/2025/01/10/metlife-stadium-wins-2026-world-cup-final-bid-new-jersey-puts-up-67-5m-for-setup/
There’s transit, but walking seems like a crazy idea.
Or maybe the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority which owns it and rakes in an estimated yearly income of $166.5 on years where there ISN’T a major international event should use some of their vast riches to make it accessible.
Tell that to Met Life Stadium
