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You can’t even travel without the need for identification and documentation get freedomed
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.
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.
My guess is, guests keep returning half drunk having rolled an ankle by slipping off a kerb or skinning their knee trying to vault over the divider in the middle of the highway.
Whenever there’s an event at the stadium they wheel out this huge sign, so when idiots return with their various injuries they can just point to the sign.
Not defending this shit show though. The satellite images for this area are… very american.
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
Not to mention that it’s hosted in a country that has had Trump multiple times. You bet that ICE will be everywhere on every corner…
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.
That’s what Atlas_ is suggesting. Don’t by a ticket, just hike the route for fun.
And I’m suggesting not even bothering to fly to the city, much less book a night at the hotel. Do your research beforehand and don’t go to events that are anti people.
wow what a hell hole
This look like a a SCP wiki article
Ok then, I’ll run 👌
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.
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.
Thought?
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
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Turnpike.
art is inspired by real life
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.
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
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.
Surely this means that the hotel or the stadium will be providing a free shuttle bus service, right?
Right…?
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.
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.
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
That is insane. Look at those parking lots. That’s actually mental. Next to one of the most expensive land cost cities in the world. With one of the highest PT ridership metros in the Americas.
Imagine paying $100 to drive a car there just to have to ride a bus anyway 💀
IT is really shitty that they built a stadium without proper transportation infrastructure.
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.
