Only in the USA, stadiums built without direct access to decent public transportation. FFS, the 1st World builds a subway or commuter station within stumbling, for the drunks, distance of the stadium.
IT is really shitty that they built a stadium without proper transportation infrastructure.
Had a somewhat similar scenario at an airport.
I wanted to go to the parking garage. It was a nice day out and it was right there. While there were a lot of lanes of traffic, they had cross walks, and pedestrian lights. The signs all said to go up two floors to the pedestrian bridge, but it looked so doable ….
Got all the way across and there was no way to enter the parking garage. Then a cop came by to yell at us
There are rumors that breathing will be canceled too.
No, no.
Breathing is going to be allowed, but you have to pay for each breath.
When walking is outlawed only outlaws will go on walks!
Why is the US such a failed nation?
Racism and capitalism, mostly.
Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.
Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.
Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.
There’s some religion mixed in there to strengthen the other two pillars but yeah
Profit.
If it isn’t profitable you can get fucked.
Think of the massive investment this country made in itself postwar. Schools, highways, libraries, research and development of technologies, electrification, parks, all the sciences from medical to astrophysics, wages, pensions, and yes, even sidewalks…the list goes on and on. Then the ‘70s and ‘80s hit us with massive tax changes that favored the wealthy and companies while cutting government spending.
Sidewalks are city funded and maintained. Not profitable. The US is car-centric for multiple reasons…mostly profit. And we’re anti-poor. Because only the poor wouldn’t have a car, and they’re not profitable.
Even pre-war. Every once in a while I notice some older infrastructure, discover it was WPA and am amazed how well it’s held up, but why don’t we do that anymore? Sure their approach was intentionally labor-intensive to get people back to work after the Great Depression and we don’t need to follow that part, but why doesn’t anyone seem to care about making the world a nicer place
They’d rather fund ICE and give cops MRAPs than build anything for the public good.
Because brianbury is legal in the US. You just have to call it a campaign donation and then you can do whatever you want.
I’m pretty sure we can say “bribery” here. This isn’t Reddit.
Could’ve been aito correct. Wow it just happened while I was typing lol. I swear it’s getting dumber all the time
aito correct
I think that’s what it is: “AI-to correct”
not very correct tho
oof. true
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I live in a country that went from 1st world to second-ish world.
Same for most airports that I saw, all only reachable via highways
I left an airport in Germany one time by bicycle.
Found that it dumped me onto an autobahn with no alternative.
It’s not just US that designs terrible airports
I’ll never forget when I first learned that. It was a 8 minute drive from the airport hotel to the airport. Or a 90 minute walk. But on a map, it looked like two blocks tops.
I went to school a block away from a major international airport. Unless you can hop a fence and run with bags on a runway while dodging security and airplanes, what you said is true. I’ve lived near the airport most of my life and I still have trouble escaping from it after picking up/dropping off someone.
Our local one put in a tunnel underneath the runway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvSYrs0EsY
Though it looks like it might be lost to the public due to expansion plans for the airport :(
Looking at maps, there are no sidewalks or walkways on any of the roads leading to or surrounding the stadium. Pedestrians aren’t even an afterthought here.
It’s NJ, it’s intentional. There are sidewalks in small towns, but almost no sidewalks outside of them. On most roads like 38 and 541, you literally have to walk on the grass next to the road. Public transportation is surprisingly decent for a US state, specifically going from South Jersey into Philly is really easy.
Source: I grew up there and walked everywhere. It was terrible.
There’s 12 times more land dedicated to parking than to the actual stadium. I think this one is a popular meme on anti-car communities because of that.
I used to live near there and the cars were an afterthought too. It is sketchy AF driving there and it has a weird post-apocalyptic feel too.
Hundreds of square miles of tollway spaghetti. When I lived in NYC I was convinced that it’s intentionally confusing, so that you exit and enter through the toll booths over and over.
Lmao i used to make looping tolls on Cities Skylines
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Turnpike.
art is inspired by real life
By design…or bribe.
This level of spaghetti is usually a lack of design, don’t attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.
If there’s profit at the end of the shit rainbow…
If you want to say the overall conditions that led to this were profit motivated (ie high car owning, excessive land used for roads), then sure. But the specific decision not to add a bike lane or sidewalk likely wasn’t directly motivated by automotive lobbying.
Buddy. This is New Jersey. It’s 100% lobbying and bribes.
Not automobile lobby, but yes, the businesses in the area. Like others have posted parking costs,
Oh my sweet summer child
Idk why people are so naive these days when cynicism usually ends up being correct.
Yeah except those of us who actually have looked into know that it was malice. By the name of Dan Snyder.
Both
Thought?
Surely this means that the hotel or the stadium will be providing a free shuttle bus service, right?
Right…?
Buses are woke you get a choice between a complimentary pick up or muscle car but either choice only seats one.
Some lots around met life include a shuttle as part of the parking fee. It sucks, you pay over $100 for a parking spot 3 miles from the stadium and then have to watch a jets or Giants game.
Imagine paying $100 to drive a car there just to have to ride a bus anyway 💀
Why are you paying for a parking spot when you’re getting a shuttle service?
The shuttle goes from the parking lot to the stadium. Met life stadium is in the middle of nowhere on the side of a highway. The lots are so big and widespread that there are busses so people don’t have to walk all the way to/from their car.
This has got to be a joke. No?
Free? No. But you can take the NJTransit 703, or take the train from Rutherford to Secaucus, and connect to the rail line from there.
Contribute to ‘Global Warming’ & Etc., because when people want to walk, you do not want them to.
Henceforth, a minimum of an individual personal transport pod must be used at all times when leaving the comfort spaces! No facilities are made for unprotected movement around the surrounding area.
LOL, so headed there. Since poor people will always cost less than technology, they will always have poorer people doing what tech. doing in this scene of ‘Walle’ (SP?), it was a awesome movie.
The only thing I think could ever cause this scene to perfectly copied in real-life, is if The Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners hating poorer people living around them over-rides their love to have them being economic slaves for them.I was thinking the other day… if we don’t keep kids vaccinated, those could be new age med-bed iron lungs for Polio and fuck-knows whatever comes back / next.
Typical that a life insurance company doesn’t want you to die, but still makes it your problem.
Since this post is lifted, title and all, directly from /r/UrbanHell, I’ll link the post here in case anyone wants to read the comments.
One of them links to a really good New York Times article from 2013 about this exact problem. You genuinely cannot comply with New Jersey traffic laws – reasonable ones that keep you safe – and walk to the stadium on foot.
LAND OF THE FREE!
That side was made for you and me
Those woke liberals wanna take away my freedumb and put me in a fifteen minute city where I don’t need to maintain a $60,000 piece of equipment to procure the basic necessities of life like food.
I live three towns away from Giants Stadium and the Meadowlands. Aside from my view that the whole thing should be destroyed, the foundations should be ripped out, and the land should be returned to the swamp and protected…
Yeah, there’s only about three hotels that have anything like a (very dangerous) walking route to the Meadowlands, and they’re all small. The best ways to get there are either by bus (there’s 2 routes that go there), or the new rail they put in. So I’m going to say the same thing I said when they held that stupid sportsball thing and wrecked half our roads: do not come here. Now, with constant or near-constant ICE activity around, if you’re not local with a support network, I have to be more vehement: absolutely avoid this area.
Stay away. Do not come here for any reason at any time. If you must come because it’s life-or-death, come in, do what’s necessary, and leave immediately.
You should probably avoid that area this summer.
I can’t help it. I live here.
Looking at the map, yeah that’s not safe. Surrounded by freeways.
