wow what a hell hole
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
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.
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.
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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.
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 says nothing about getting to transportation by foot. It’s says to can’t go from the hotel to the stadium on foot.
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.
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
When walking is outlawed only outlaws will go on walks!
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.
That’s hard to imagine
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 :(
Typical that a life insurance company doesn’t want you to die, but still makes it your problem.
Looking at the map, yeah that’s not safe. Surrounded by freeways.
Boycott this, and walk that route anyways.
Boycotting would be not going at all.
Ok then, I’ll run 👌
Agent of what? I know it might be fantasy, but I am still curious.
This look like a a SCP wiki article
You can’t even travel without the need for identification and documentation get freedomed
Ok, I get that you can’t exactly walk there from that hotel but that’s not the whole story. They have pretty good public transport servicing MetLife.
I’ve been to a few sold out events at MetLife and I’ve taken the train every time and every time it was the right call. The train drops you off at the stadium and it’s one transfer in Secaucus to Penn station in NYC. Additionally there are lots of buses for folks to get in and out of the stadium.
It’s a hell of a lot better than my home stadium FedEX field outside Washington, DC. You can take the train to FedEx but it’s a 20-30 minute walk to a metro, I’ve seen folks get hit walking to the station. The only real option is to drive and pay 75$, sit in traffic and be miserable the entire time. I’d love to see a train station that you could safely walk to in DC. Hopefully the RFK redevelopment will be better.
Sure you can’t walk from a hotel but it’s not like they didn’t have public transportation options for MetLife.
You could kayak up the Hackensack River and get mercury poisoning! The Meadowlands are a really strange place.
