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As fans whitethorn person to salary $150 to recreation to World Cup games astatine MetLife Stadium this summer, FIFA believes NJ Transit's "Regional Stadium Mobility Plan" will beryllium a success.
The FIFA World Cup 2026 New York New Jersey Host Committee and NJ Transit announced nan scheme connected Friday, pinch nan value of getting to MetLife Stadium being nan hottest topic, on pinch bans connected parking astatine nan stadium.
But Alex Lasry, nan CEO of nan Host Committee, said nan scheme is "built pinch information and work astatine its core."
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NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri and Alex Lasry, CEO of nan 2026 FIFA World Cup New York New Jersey Host Committee, speak during a property briefing connected nan location mobility scheme for nan World Cup successful Newark, New Jersey, connected April 17, 2026. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
"(We are) ensuring that each fan, worker, and resident tin move passim nan region securely during nan tournament. It reflects years of readying and coordination across our transportation partners, and we’re incredibly grateful for their collaboration," Lasry said successful a release.
"Our attraction is connected delivering a clear, reliable acquisition for matchgoers while minimizing disruption and helping residents navigate nan accrued request nan tourney will bring. We want to guarantee nan World Cup is an enjoyable acquisition crossed our full region, while showing nan world everything New York New Jersey has to offer."
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and FIFA exchanged blows astir nan summons prices, pinch Sherrill imploring FIFA to salary for fans to be nan games.
"Our management inherited an statement wherever FIFA is providing $0 for proscription to nan World Cup — zero. That leaves New Jersey Transit pinch a $48 cardinal measure to safely get 40,000 fans to and from each game," Sherrill said in a video. "At nan aforesaid time, FIFA is making $11 cardinal disconnected of this World Cup and charging fans up to $10,000 for a azygous summons for nan final."
A wide position of MetLife Stadium and nan Meadowlands Train Station is seen from a NJ Transit train earlier nan FIFA Club World Cup 2025 semi-final lucifer betwixt Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected July 9, 2025. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)
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"I won't instrumentality New Jersey's commuters pinch that tab for years to travel — that's not fair. So here's nan bottommost line: FIFA should salary for nan rides, but if they don't, I'm not going to fto New Jersey commuters get taken for one."
FIFA said it was "quite surprised" astatine Sherrill's unprecedented "approach."
"FIFA World Cup will bring millions of fans to North America on pinch related economical impact. Many fans will recreation to NYNJ to bask nan 8 matches scheduled. FIFA is not alert of immoderate different awesome arena antecedently held astatine NYNJ Stadium, including different awesome sports, world performance tours, etc., wherever organizers were required to salary for instrumentality transportation," it said.
The first crippled played astatine MetLife Stadium will beryllium June 13, and it will big 8 matches, including nan last connected July 19.
A Meadowlands motion is displayed astatine Secaucus Junction position successful Secaucus, New Jersey, connected April 17, 2026. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Under nan conception "What Fans Should Expect" successful its release, NJ Transit and nan Host Committee said that "travel will look different from a emblematic day," and those not attending games should debar nonessential recreation connected lucifer days. Some won't person a choice, arsenic work retired of New York Penn Station to New Jersey will beryllium halted connected lucifer days opening 4 hours earlier crippled time.
The World Cup originates connected June 12 successful Los Angeles connected FOX.
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