World Cup ‘planning’ exposes the utter idiocy of – Latest News
Does Port Authority chief Kathryn Garcia actually anticipate handy over the metro area’s highway and transit system to World Cup elitists?
Garcia sounds even more socialist and anti-free enterprise than Mayor Zohran Mamdani as she urges New York and New Jersey commuters to work from home, whereas advising out-of-towners to move to World Cup matches on public transportation — not Ubers, taxis and even rented limos.
Folks spending over $5,000 per ticket are going to leap on New Jersey Transit? Right.
NJ Transit hopes to attain off the fats cats by charging $150 (practically eight instances its normal charge for the route) for round-trip practice rides between Manhattan and MetLife Stadium.
Meanwhile, it’s dissing common NJ Transit riders by closing Penn Station to anybody not attending the World Cup for 4 hours earlier than and three hours after every of the eight matches, together with the closing.
This, as Jersey leaders sniff that “the cost for the eight matches will not be borne by our regular commuters” — as if being unable to take your regular practice wasn’t a value.
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Equally doubtful is Team Mamdani’s plan without cost mass watch events in Rock Center, Brooklyn Bridge Park and spots in different three boroughs, which supposedly will entice different vacationers and so enhance native companies.
You assume they did a whiff of market analysis on that?
Or possibly they notice it’s a loser, and that’s why the mayor needs to cancel the regular road festivals and different metropolis public summer season enjoyable: You received’t have another selections . . . which, come to assume of it, is how socialism works.
The international soccer championships could also be a world-class occasion, however the native political elites’ pathetic “planning” scores as purely bush-league.
