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FIFA is not fond of nan NJ Transit plan for nan World Cup.
The nationalist proscription system, on pinch nan FIFA New York New Jersey Host Committee, released their "Regional Stadium Mobility Plan" connected Friday, which includes $150 train tickets and an $80 shuttle autobus from New York to MetLife Stadium, constricted rideshare opportunities, and Penn Station closures to non-gameday commuters.
With nan scheme now officially successful place, FIFA World Cup COO Heimo Schirgi issued nan pursuing connection exclusively to Fox News Digital:
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Commuters move done nan NJ Transit conception of Penn Station successful New York City connected May 20, 2025, aft NJ Transit resumed operations pursuing a tentative woody to extremity a three-day onslaught by train engineers. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"Ever since nan big metropolis agreements were signed successful 2018, FIFA has worked successful collaboration pinch nan Host Committees and their partners to create a proscription scheme that provides businesslike and accessible wide transit options for ticketed fans attending nan 8 matches astatine NY NJ Stadium. The extremity is to minimize congestion, trim reliance connected backstage vehicles, and guarantee nan instrumentality acquisition is affirmative and memorable defined by nan action connected pitch, not delays connected nan roads.
"The NJ Transit existent pricing exemplary will person a chilling effect. Elevated fares inevitably push fans toward replacement proscription options. This increases concerns of congestion, precocious arrivals, and creates broader ripple effects that yet diminish nan economical use and lasting bequest nan full region stands to summation from hosting nan World Cup."
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has implored FIFA to ft nan measure for those going to games, a petition that Schirgi criticized.
Representative Mikie Sherrill, Democratic gubernatorial campaigner for New Jersey, during an predetermination nighttime arena successful East Brunswick, New Jersey, US, connected Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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"Furthermore, to arbitrarily group elevated prices and request FIFA sorb these costs is unprecedented. No different world event, performance aliases awesome sporting promoter has faced specified a demand. While FIFA is projected to make astir $11 cardinal successful revenue, not profit, arsenic nan Governor incorrectly claims, FIFA has ever been a not-for-profit statement arsenic per our statutes. Revenues from nan FIFA World Cup are reinvested into processing nan crippled of football, peculiarly for younker and women, worldwide.
"Lastly, we applaud our big metropolis partners crossed nan state who embraced this opportunity to showcase their region to visitors by providing debased costs and often unchanged rates for wide transit to and from lucifer venues, FIFA Fan Festival locations, airports and different areas captious to a affirmative instrumentality experience. One Host City lists a wide obstruction summons for $1.25, yet costing ticketed fans $2.50 for roundtrip proscription to a FIFA World Cup 2026 match."
A normal train summons from Penn Station to MetLife Stadium is $12.90, making this summation astir a twelve times higher than what it usually is.
NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said nan prices had to beryllium increased, fixed nan $48 cardinal costs to NJ Transit and to debar regular commuters subsidizing nan costs successful nan future.
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)
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MetLife Stadium will big 8 matches, opening connected June 13 and ending pinch nan July 19 final.
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