Fans and stadium workers arrive at the stadium on the Meadowlands Train Platform during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 semi-final match between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid CF at MetLife Stadium on July 09, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Getty Images Leave it to New Jersey to embarrass the entire nation by jacking up train tickets for this summer’s fast-approaching World Cup matches to a preposterous $100 a pop just two months before they start.
More than 1 million fans from all over the globe have already purchased their plane tickets and booked expensive hotel rooms to attend the biggest sporting event on the planet.
Now those travelers are rudely learning they’ll have to pay an extra, ludicrous $100 per person for an 18-mile rickety ride from New York Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford that normally costs $12.90.
And that goes for everybody — from your 5-year-old son to your 85-year-old dad. Chances are, they’ll have to stand in the aisle of one of those aging aluminum cans, too.
That’s insane. I’d cancel. Don’t feed into the Garden State’s wasteful mismanagement of your money masked as beggarly desperation.
Call me cynical, but it’s awfully convenient of NJ Transit to hold off until right this moment to reveal the shakedown price of a ride to the World Cup in June.
The US was announced as the host country eight years ago. Everybody’s plans are long-set. This last-minute gotcha has the foul smell of a bait-and-swindle.
Naturally the Democrats are doing their usual woe-is-me shtick: Alms for the poor! Alms for the poor!
Sources said that New Jersey oh so badly needs to charge such a preposterous amount because they couldn’t possibly afford to shuttle the influx of tourists excited to spend billions of dollars in a state that they would never, ever visit otherwise.
The problem, sources said, is that more trains are needed for the eight matches and regular service will be suspended for several hours on those days, which will add up to an estimated $48 million.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill claims she doesn’t want to slap New Jersey citizens with the bill.
New Jersey and its Democratic overlords love nothing more than to burden regular citizens with exorbitant costs that improve absolutely nothing. The Garden State has the highest property tax rate in the country. Income taxes aren’t far behind.
Their kink is spending beyond their means, and they shower their awful transit agency with money. The 2026 budget for a system that has become worse while growing more expensive is $3.16 billion.
Businesses earning more than $10 million a year recently were slapped with a new 2.5% “corporate transit tax” to help fund this wreck of persistent delays and cancellations. And the agency just jacked up tickets for regular commuters by 3%.
And now they pick the World Cup — something actually beneficial to local businesses — to finally stand up for the working man?
