metlife is one of the worst stadiums, i went here for a soccer game last summer it was 98° and most seats have no shade whatsoever to the point where people would applaud the moving c clouds. they didn’t let us bring our own water into this stadium and if you wanted water you had to wait in a huge line and pay 5 bucks. this is where the world cup final is gonna be btw
wow what a hell hole
Only in the USA, stadiums built without direct access to decent public transportation. FFS, the 1st World builds a subway or commuter station within stumbling, for the drunks, distance of the stadium.
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FFS, the 1st World builds a subway or commuter station within stumbling
Idk, sounds like Communism to me
Do you want more drunk drivers out there? Public transportation is not communism. Visit Japan and their large metropolitan areas will blow your mind.
What makes you think it’s not connected to public transportation?
They’re simply saying you can’t walk, please use another form of transportation.
edit: people in this thread are saying there is public transit to it.
Proper pedestrian infrastructure is part of public transport. You cannot have a bus if you cannot get to it and in this case it seems you cannot get to the transportation option by foot.
This says nothing about getting to transportation by foot. It’s says to can’t go from the hotel to the stadium on foot.
It says you can’t walk from the stadium to the hotel. It says nothing about walking from the stadium to a bus stop or subway station.
The Meadowlands is an enormous parking lot with a few novelty venues scattered through the center.
Nearly impossible to get into and out of, precisely because they didn’t build pedestrian infrastructure.
This is Lemmy, we’re here to jump to conclusions and hate on things.
Had a somewhat similar scenario at an airport.
I wanted to go to the parking garage. It was a nice day out and it was right there. While there were a lot of lanes of traffic, they had cross walks, and pedestrian lights. The signs all said to go up two floors to the pedestrian bridge, but it looked so doable ….
Got all the way across and there was no way to enter the parking garage. Then a cop came by to yell at us
IT is really shitty that they built a stadium without proper transportation infrastructure.
Why is the US such a failed nation?
Racism and capitalism, mostly.
Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.
Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.
Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.
And some serious car brain
There’s some religion mixed in there to strengthen the other two pillars but yeah
Profit.
If it isn’t profitable you can get fucked.
Think of the massive investment this country made in itself postwar. Schools, highways, libraries, research and development of technologies, electrification, parks, all the sciences from medical to astrophysics, wages, pensions, and yes, even sidewalks…the list goes on and on. Then the ‘70s and ‘80s hit us with massive tax changes that favored the wealthy and companies while cutting government spending.
Sidewalks are city funded and maintained. Not profitable. The US is car-centric for multiple reasons…mostly profit. And we’re anti-poor. Because only the poor wouldn’t have a car, and they’re not profitable.
Even pre-war. Every once in a while I notice some older infrastructure, discover it was WPA and am amazed how well it’s held up, but why don’t we do that anymore? Sure their approach was intentionally labor-intensive to get people back to work after the Great Depression and we don’t need to follow that part, but why doesn’t anyone seem to care about making the world a nicer place
They’d rather fund ICE and give cops MRAPs than build anything for the public good.
Because brianbury is legal in the US. You just have to call it a campaign donation and then you can do whatever you want.
I’m pretty sure we can say “bribery” here. This isn’t Reddit.
Could’ve been aito correct. Wow it just happened while I was typing lol. I swear it’s getting dumber all the time
aito correct
I think that’s what it is: “AI-to correct”
not very correct tho
oof. true
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I live in a country that went from 1st world to second-ish world.
1st, 2nd, 3rd… its not a podium. It’s an alignment chart from the cold war. 2nd world is the commie block.
When walking is outlawed only outlaws will go on walks!
There are rumors that breathing will be canceled too.
No, no.
Breathing is going to be allowed, but you have to pay for each breath.
There’s a Doctor Who episode with that as it’s premise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_(Doctor_Who)
The Twelfth Doctor, Bill and an angry Nardole travel in the TARDIS to follow a distress call to a deep-space mining station. When the TARDIS is jettisoned by the station’s computers, the trio are forced to wear “smartsuits”, robotic spacesuits capable of independent operation tied to the station. The suits are also the only source of oxygen, as the mining company does not provide an oxygen atmosphere inside the station, and every activity is measured in breaths
Looking at maps, there are no sidewalks or walkways on any of the roads leading to or surrounding the stadium. Pedestrians aren’t even an afterthought here.
It’s NJ, it’s intentional. There are sidewalks in small towns, but almost no sidewalks outside of them. On most roads like 38 and 541, you literally have to walk on the grass next to the road. Public transportation is surprisingly decent for a US state, specifically going from South Jersey into Philly is really easy.
Source: I grew up there and walked everywhere. It was terrible.
There’s 12 times more land dedicated to parking than to the actual stadium. I think this one is a popular meme on anti-car communities because of that.
I used to live near there and the cars were an afterthought too. It is sketchy AF driving there and it has a weird post-apocalyptic feel too.
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Hundreds of square miles of tollway spaghetti. When I lived in NYC I was convinced that it’s intentionally confusing, so that you exit and enter through the toll booths over and over.
Lmao i used to make looping tolls on Cities Skylines
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Turnpike.
art is inspired by real life
By design…or bribe.
This level of spaghetti is usually a lack of design, don’t attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.
If there’s profit at the end of the shit rainbow…
If you want to say the overall conditions that led to this were profit motivated (ie high car owning, excessive land used for roads), then sure. But the specific decision not to add a bike lane or sidewalk likely wasn’t directly motivated by automotive lobbying.
Buddy. This is New Jersey. It’s 100% lobbying and bribes.
Not automobile lobby, but yes, the businesses in the area. Like others have posted parking costs,
Oh my sweet summer child
Idk why people are so naive these days when cynicism usually ends up being correct.
Yeah except those of us who actually have looked into know that it was malice. By the name of Dan Snyder.
Both
Thought?
Same for most airports that I saw, all only reachable via highways
I left an airport in Germany one time by bicycle.
Found that it dumped me onto an autobahn with no alternative.
It’s not just US that designs terrible airports
Wellington airport in New Zealand has had intermittent public transport options for decades, and they charge outrageous surcharges for taxis leaving/arriving. NZ is even more car-brained than the US though.
Canberra, Australia has ok bike to the airport. No bike parking at the airport, so if you’re seeing someone off you’re probably locking it to a sign or a fence. You’re in with cars for the last kilometre though as the airport doesn’t consider bikes, though the city does
I’ll never forget when I first learned that. It was a 8 minute drive from the airport hotel to the airport. Or a 90 minute walk. But on a map, it looked like two blocks tops.
I went to school a block away from a major international airport. Unless you can hop a fence and run with bags on a runway while dodging security and airplanes, what you said is true. I’ve lived near the airport most of my life and I still have trouble escaping from it after picking up/dropping off someone.
Our local one put in a tunnel underneath the runway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvSYrs0EsY
Though it looks like it might be lost to the public due to expansion plans for the airport :(
Surely this means that the hotel or the stadium will be providing a free shuttle bus service, right?
Right…?
Buses are woke you get a choice between a complimentary pick up or muscle car but either choice only seats one.
Some lots around met life include a shuttle as part of the parking fee. It sucks, you pay over $100 for a parking spot 3 miles from the stadium and then have to watch a jets or Giants game.
Imagine paying $100 to drive a car there just to have to ride a bus anyway 💀
Why are you paying for a parking spot when you’re getting a shuttle service?
The shuttle goes from the parking lot to the stadium. Met life stadium is in the middle of nowhere on the side of a highway. The lots are so big and widespread that there are busses so people don’t have to walk all the way to/from their car.
This has got to be a joke. No?
Metlife Stadium has 82000 seats, and you can’t walk there.
So there has to be 82000 parking spaces.
Which need more than 2 square km alone, without taking into account the roads connecting them.No. It’s literally a stadium in the middle of nowhere. https://www.metlifestadium.com/plan-your-visit/parking-tailgating/nfl-parking
Free? No. But you can take the NJTransit 703, or take the train from Rutherford to Secaucus, and connect to the rail line from there.
Contribute to ‘Global Warming’ & Etc., because when people want to walk, you do not want them to.
Henceforth, a minimum of an individual personal transport pod must be used at all times when leaving the comfort spaces! No facilities are made for unprotected movement around the surrounding area.
LOL, so headed there. Since poor people will always cost less than technology, they will always have poorer people doing what tech. doing in this scene of ‘Walle’ (SP?), it was a awesome movie.
The only thing I think could ever cause this scene to perfectly copied in real-life, is if The Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners hating poorer people living around them over-rides their love to have them being economic slaves for them.I was thinking the other day… if we don’t keep kids vaccinated, those could be new age med-bed iron lungs for Polio and fuck-knows whatever comes back / next.
Typical that a life insurance company doesn’t want you to die, but still makes it your problem.
Since this post is lifted, title and all, directly from /r/UrbanHell, I’ll link the post here in case anyone wants to read the comments.
One of them links to a really good New York Times article from 2013 about this exact problem. You genuinely cannot comply with New Jersey traffic laws – reasonable ones that keep you safe – and walk to the stadium on foot.
LAND OF THE FREE!
That side was made for you and me
Those woke liberals wanna take away my freedumb and put me in a fifteen minute city where I don’t need to maintain a $60,000 piece of equipment to procure the basic necessities of life like food.
