A general view of MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ as seen on April 12, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post Apparently this year’s World Cup matches didn’t feature enough price-gouging, so New Jersey Transit’s gotten in on the action.
The rightly-reviled commuter railroad is looking to charge $100 a ticket for travel from New York’s Penn Station to MetLife Stadium for each of the eight matches in the Garden State, a fare that’s normally just $12.90.
An NJT flack sniffs, citing Gov. Mike Sherrill, “the cost for the eight matches will not be borne by our regular commuters.”
Which neatly dodges the question of how the heck those costs could get so high — or does NJT pretend it’s losing over 80 bucks a ride for every football game and concert at MetLife?
Not to mention that “our regular commuters” will bear a significant cost, since the railroad is banning them from Penn for four hours before each match, several of which are on weekdays.
And yes, other mass-transit agencies are equally venal: Boston’s MBTA will charge $90 for trains to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, another outrageous markup.
Then again, the notoriously corrupt outfit that runs the World Cup is setting the tone here: FIFA, a k a the International Federation of Association Football, last week jacked up the price for actual World Cup tickets to as high as $10,990 for the final match, up from $8,680 in December.
We’re not particularly upset at this “soak the rich” maneuvering — but this gouging also pushes everything far out of reach for average fans.
The game itself may be beautiful, but a heckuva lot of very ugly parasites sure seem to infest it.
