FIFA objects to $100 train fare for 2026 World Cup at MetLife Stadium
Governor of New Jersey Mickey Sherrill A train ride to the eight games at the Meadowlands facility, which normally costs $12.90, she announced amazingly. It will cost $150 for soccer fans. This prompted the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), football’s global governing body, to withdraw the red card.
FIFA claims that The original agreement stipulated that the districts where the games would be held would pay transportation costs, but Sherrill claims the agreement was reached by the previous administration, also Democratic, in Trenton, and for some reason, doesn’t apply now.
Gov. Mickey Sherrill announced that a train ride to the eight games at the Meadowlands facility, which normally costs $12.90, will cost $150. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
The bottom line is the Democrats, who have dominant control of the country New York City metro areaI’ve spent years thinking about transportation for the World Cup and nothing has happened.
There is no possible excuse for this, logistically speaking. We’re not talking about the D-Day landings here. It’s some football matches. This should not bother the country’s leaders.
Gotham’s communist mayor, Zohran “Madman” Mamdani, Advertisements ran last year Promising cheap World Cup tickets to working-class New Yorkers. Now, the Democrats in charge can’t even bring fans into the stadium.
meaningless. MetLife Stadium hosts approximately 20 NFL games annually. It has hosted the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift She played a three-night gig there which brought in 217,000 Swifties. How many people can we expect for Ghana vs Uruguay, or whatever?
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We see it across the country, wherever Democrats are in power.
Take Maryland, where rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed by a ship two years ago, was originally scheduled to cost $2 billion and is scheduled to open in 2028, but is now estimated at $5 billion and won’t carry a car until 2030.
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on September 14, 2020. (Robert Deutsch/USA Today Sports)
Likewise in California, the government is spending billions. Gavin Newsom On high-speed rail, overpasses for animal shelters, and the fight against homelessness, but there is no train, the wildlife bridge is incomplete, and homelessness has never been worse in the Golden State.
When I first moved to West Virginia From Brooklyn, work was being done on an important local bridge. It was a real nuisance. One day, I heard over my car radio that the bridge was going to be finished a week early and under budget.
Surprised, I called a friend of mine who was on the New York City Council at the time and said, “Hey Joe, there’s this bridge here, they say it’s going to be done early and on budget. Do you know what that means?”
“No, I’ve never heard those words before,” Joe replied. We were joking, but barely.
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It really feels like it Democrats in our urban areas Just spend money on things like feasibility studies and they tend to come back saying whatever it is, it’s not possible, but they may end up with more funding for additional studies.
But through some magical magic of governance, in our rural areas, officials are actually able to fix things.
The amount of complete incompetence that urban voters accept from Democrats is truly bizarre. Just look at the rampant fraud at Somali “quality education centers” in Minnesota, or the fraud-ridden nursing homes in California, where almost every patient makes a miraculous recovery.
And now, in New York and New JerseyDemocratic leaders treat the simple and mundane task of getting fans across the East River like Moses did to the Red Sea, when this is the very simple thing that city officials could have easily accomplished a century ago.
None of this relocation nonsense happened when Giants Stadium hosted the 1994 World Cup.
Say what you will about the old Democratic Party machines that ruled places like New York and Philly in the past. They were corrupt when everyone else got out, but they could also get things done. For example, none of this transfer nonsense happened when Giants Stadium hosted the World Cup in 1994.
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The sad situation across our great nation, from blue city to blue city, is that the only thing Democrats seem able to do is spend money, often your money, to manage our urban decline.
Maybe one day the citizens of our cities will Give Republicans a chanceIf Republicans even try. But until then, good luck making it to the football game.
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