Why is the US such a failed nation?
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Because brianbury is legal in the US. You just have to call it a campaign donation and then you can do whatever you want.
Same for most airports that I saw, all only reachable via highways
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.
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
By design...or bribe.
Both
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.
Not automobile lobby, but yes, the businesses in the area. Like others have posted parking costs,
Oh my sweet summer child
Yeah except those of us who actually have looked into know that it was malice. By the name of Dan Snyder.
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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 💀
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.
Typical that a life insurance company doesn't want you to die, but still makes it your problem.
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.
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.
Looking at the map, yeah that's not safe. Surrounded by freeways.
LAND OF THE FREE!
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.
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Boycott this, and walk that route anyways.
Boycotting would be not going at all.
That's what Atlas_ is suggesting. Don't by a ticket, just hike the route for fun.
And I'm suggesting not even bothering to fly to the city, much less book a night at the hotel. Do your research beforehand and don't go to events that are anti people.
Jeez, they still haven't fixed that shit? I saw a Chili Peppers concert there in like 2008, my date and I took NJ Transit or PATH out there from the city (I forget which) and ended up having to walk several miles along highways to get the the stadium. I wouldn't give the Meadowlands my money ever again until they did something about that. The trains aren't even that far away, they just haven't connected them!!
There's a train station there with a limited run from Secaucus Junction. And they're not going to "fix" it. They want their parking fees, because that and the concessions are how the venues make most of their money.
You can't even travel without the need for identification and documentation get freedomed
Ok then, I'll run 👌
That's NJ AF
This look like a a SCP wiki article
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