New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, has hit out at Fifa after reports her state’s transport system will charge $100 for a return ticket to World Cup matches
Trust me, I understand that just as well as you do. I’ve been following Olympics hosting scandals since the 1990s and WC hosting issues since 2006. Like I said, I am siding with NJ on this one. If the stadium were in NYC where people could take the subways, I wouldn’t. NYC is getting all the tourist revenue while NJ is getting all the transport and security burden. NYC is charging $90/night in taxes on just hotels. All the food and alcohol being purchased will also add to the money that city makes. They could subsidize some subway tickets. But in this case, you can’t take a subway to Met Life… you can’t even take a direct train to Met Life. You also can’t drive to it during the WC.
Other host cities, probably not getting any benefit. LA might do OK, since we aren’t doing jack shit extra for the WC except hosting watch parties that are not free.
I’m not getting played. I don’t support FIFA and am boycotting this WC. I also boycotted Russia and Qatar. I could have afforded to go to either of those games but chose to not even watch them. I was crazy excited for this WC, but now I’m not even going to watch them on TV. Fuck this whole thing and fuck FIFA. But I will always support a city providing public transport to people spending thousands in just taxes to visit.
Trust me, I understand that just as well as you do. I’ve been following Olympics hosting scandals since the 1990s and WC hosting issues since 2006. Like I said, I am siding with NJ on this one. If the stadium were in NYC where people could take the subways, I wouldn’t. NYC is getting all the tourist revenue while NJ is getting all the transport and security burden. NYC is charging $90/night in taxes on just hotels. All the food and alcohol being purchased will also add to the money that city makes. They could subsidize some subway tickets. But in this case, you can’t take a subway to Met Life… you can’t even take a direct train to Met Life. You also can’t drive to it during the WC.
Other host cities, probably not getting any benefit. LA might do OK, since we aren’t doing jack shit extra for the WC except hosting watch parties that are not free.
I’m not getting played. I don’t support FIFA and am boycotting this WC. I also boycotted Russia and Qatar. I could have afforded to go to either of those games but chose to not even watch them. I was crazy excited for this WC, but now I’m not even going to watch them on TV. Fuck this whole thing and fuck FIFA. But I will always support a city providing public transport to people spending thousands in just taxes to visit.