• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    FIFA, in their infinite wisdom, made the decision to have all the parking around MetLife Stadium used for (paid) fan and merch space. MetLife is primarily built for car traffic, so this is a disaster waiting to happen. Yet another example of their greed and hubris. This was so poorly thought out.

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    3 months ago

    Why are the US even hosting this event? They don’t care about football and seemingly they don’t care about tourism anymore.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    so many millions angry, but not angry enough to rise up en masse and remove thr thorn

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        3 months ago

        not here, no. but whats happening here is also being born in other countries. just as they expect us to fight it off here, i expect them to fight it off there for the same reasons

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          3 months ago

          Other countries still have the rule of law so rising up isn’t required. Turkey (I have no idea how it’s supposed to be spelt now Tuekïë?) managed to get rid of their dictator by just voting him out.

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    3 months ago

    That’s what happens if you spend money in the FIFA corruption circus: others want to take their share, too.

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sports gambling tainted all professional sports. I’ll go watch a little league game for athletes performing at their best the whole game.

  • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Here in my country football matches, but also many concerts and so on come with a free public transit ticket.

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      3 months ago

      They prob already have the infrastructure and routes in the standard daily usage… most of these I am guessing will not be standard routes or infrastructure, and just temporary for the events.

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        3 months ago

        Nope. It’s the normal busses and trains. On a usual day they charge $12.50 for the airport to city train, but the city decided to just turn it up to $100 for this event.

        Similarly the prices on the normal busses are going to be special event rates.