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.
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.
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
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.
Oh my sweet summer child
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 💀
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.
Typical that a life insurance company doesn't want you to die, but still makes it your problem.
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.
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.
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.
I live three towns away from Giants Stadium and the Meadowlands. Aside from my view that the whole thing should be destroyed, the foundations should be ripped out, and the land should be returned to the swamp and protected...
Yeah, there's only about three hotels that have anything like a (very dangerous) walking route to the Meadowlands, and they're all small. The best ways to get there are either by bus (there's 2 routes that go there), or the new rail they put in. So I'm going to say the same thing I said when they held that stupid sportsball thing and wrecked half our roads: do not come here. Now, with constant or near-constant ICE activity around, if you're not local with a support network, I have to be more vehement: absolutely avoid this area.
Stay away. Do not come here for any reason at any time. If you must come because it's life-or-death, come in, do what's necessary, and leave immediately.
When walking is outlawed only outlaws will go on walks!
Looking at the map, yeah that's not safe. Surrounded by freeways.
LAND OF THE FREE!
IT is really shitty that they built a stadium without proper transportation infrastructure.
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.
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
Boycott this, and walk that route anyways.
Boycotting would be not going at all.
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
Ok then, I'll run 👌
That's NJ AF
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.
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.
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