Thursday, December 05, 2013
Super Bowl v NJ
For those who don't know, the football stadium is in NJ, with easy access by highway, train, and buses. But it's also next to a residential area, as well as area hotels across the highway. That means plenty of people park locally and walk to the stadium. Or, they park at a bar which offers shuttles to the stadium.
Well, that may be true for Jets/Giants. It's not true for the Super Bowl:?
"There is not a single solitary person, unless they’re a Navy SEAL, who is going to walk to that game and get through that marshland to the stadium and get past State Police."
That quote from Al Kelly, who is the president and CEO of the Super Bowl Host Committee, appeared in a recent Star-Ledger article on preparations for the Super Bowl.
"You don’t have to be a Navy SEAL," said [Mayor] Cassella. "Plenty of people park outside and walk to the games."
Not this Feb. 2. The NFL is calling this the first "mass transit Super Bowl." That sounds nice. But only a small fraction of the fans will be arriving by train. Not that many will arrive by car either; the number of available parking spaces has been cut in half.
Most of the fans will arrive by bus or limo, and all such vehicles are required to park for the entire game. Parking rates have not yet been announced, but if they’re anything like the ticket prices, they’ll be astronomical.
"You start to think the NFL is looking for ways to prohibit other people from making money," said Cassella.
You do indeed. Among those are the bars near the stadium that offer low-cost parking and shuttle service to the stadium. That won’t be permitted for the Super Bowl. You can’t take a cab either.
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"Imagine if they held a game at Madison Square Garden and said you couldn’t enter on foot," Cassella said.
That’s impossible to imagine. Madison Square Garden is in New York.
As for the Super Bowl, that’s in New Jersey — even if you have to crawl through the mud to get to it.
So, if you are at the hotel across the highway, and you want to walk along the pedestrian overpass? Forget it! And if the hotel offers a shuttle, that shuttle must remain on the grounds throughout the game.
It's the same logic of the Obamacare website that requires logging in before shopping: it only makes sense because someone made the decision to implement it that way. But when confronted with actual customers...
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