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.
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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.
If you come here you'll have a bad time
That's alright, I plan to purchase a gatling gun. If I can say it's for hunting or home defense they'll hand it over right, I think that's how it works.
The $95 bus fare was never going to break the bank, Phillips-Hunter knows, but he and so many other Scots are already paying huge sums to see their men’s team compete in the World Cup for the first time in 28 years. Phillips-Hunter estimates it will take him two years to pay off the credit card debt he’s taking on for his six-day trip to the U.S., including the $1,350 he spent on a ticket for the Scotland-Morocco match.
How could a 6 day event be worth debt that would take 2 years to pay off?
People in the US generally don’t care about soccer, so they wouldn’t see the value in eating the cost for people to come here and use up a considerable amount of infrastructure.
I like soccer, but not enough to watch it (or any other sports). If the burden is so great on the cities, then the ones who make the most should offset the cost. But then how would those that make the most…make the most?
No bus costs $95/person to operate, especially when running at capacity. Its just gouging, plain and simple.
You know its gouging because these trips already operate daily at $10-20/person, so its a 5x-10x markup for the same service offered the day before to literally anyone but the captive audience.
That's explorative, and should not be part of our infrastructure like public transit systems, regardless of who it serves.
That's what happens if you spend money in the FIFA corruption circus: others want to take their share, too.
Well, they have to pay for the peace price somehow.
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.
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Since then, World Cup host countries have invested heavily in getting fans to and from matches, especially in Russia in 2018, where even long-distance trains between host cities were free, and Qatar in 2022, where free metro access helped turn stadium-hopping into part of the tournament experience.
The World Cup Is Great For FIFA—And A Bad Bet For Cities
The best available estimate suggested a $14 million shortfall on a $22 million public investment. That’s not a rounding error, but a warning for all cities looking to host a large-scale sporting event.
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That's not so bad, if you consider that it's only 5 dollars per hour
Less, than 9 cents per minute! And basically free per second! So cheap!
Here in my country football matches, but also many concerts and so on come with a free public transit ticket.
They prob already have the infrastructure and routes in the standard daily usage.. most of these I am guessing will not be standard routes or infrastructure, and just temporary for the events.
Civilised countries use events like this as a vehicle (no pun intended) to build infrastructure - like public transport - for the event that will then be a public good after.
Nope. It's the normal busses and trains. On a usual day they charge $12.50 for the airport to city train, but the city decided to just turn it up to $100 for this event.
Similarly the prices on the normal busses are going to be special event rates.
People who regularly use those trains to commute are also pissed.
That about sums it up for the organization of this whole thing from what I've heard.
Related and thought this was an interesting watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=307RZ3stxNg
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