World Cup Transit Price Gouging

$150 to take the train to a World Cup match is the kind of headline that makes you do a double take. We dig into the growing fight over World Cup 2026 public transit pricing and why some US host regions seem ready to treat trains and buses like a luxury upsell instead of the simplest way to move tens of thousands of people safely and fast. 

We start in Boston, where Gillette Stadium already has MBTA commuter rail service for Patriots games, then look at what changes when FIFA comes to town: bigger crowds, less parking due to fan zones and media, and a major push to move up to 20,000 riders per match. From there we get into the $80 fare proposal, the $35 million level-boarding platform expansion, and the bigger question of what counts as long-term transit infrastructure versus a temporary tournament expense. 

Then we head to the New York City area where matches at MetLife Stadium rely heavily on New Jersey Transit. The numbers are wild: a familiar $12.90 game-day trip turns into a $150 round-trip ticket for World Cup service, plus an $80 bus that still sits in traffic. We talk fairness for local fans, congestion and traffic impacts, and the awkward reality that regions can earn massive new tax revenue from World Cup tourism while still asking everyday riders to foot the bill at the fare gates. 

We close with brighter examples like Philadelphia SEPTA’s sponsorship approach and Kansas City’s $50 month-long regional pass and free airport coach, plus what these ideas reveal about better event transportation policy. If you like deep dives on public transit, World Cup travel logistics, and how cities can move crowds without punishing riders, subscribe, share the show, and leave a review.

Transcript

World Cup Transit Fare Outrage

SPEAKER_02 0:52

As the World Cup approaches this summer, several US cities are creating a lot of drama about how people are actually going to get to the games.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Cities like Boston and New York are saying they're going to charge FIFA World Cup attendees upwards to$150 to have a round trip ticket to the game.

Boston Gillette Transit Baseline

SPEAKER_02 1:10

So this week we're going to dive into the arguments for price gouging visitors who will spend thousands of dollars each in our country who are choosing to use public transit versus clogging the roads in their personal vehicles and in taxis. If you can't tell, Chris, I am not happy about this one. Seeing the headlines coming out about this the last few weeks have driven me nuts. And we lightly talked about this on a previous episode where we ranked all of the North American World Cup cities based on how good it would be to get to the games using public transit, as well as enjoying the cities that they're in. And we did mention Boston's uh$80 ticket, but seeing this New York City, New Jersey$150 number is absolutely absurd.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yeah, this doesn't sound like this episode is going to be one of Lewis's classic uh pro-cons lists. It's just going to be uh Lewis's cons, cons, cons list of everything related to price gouging for the World Cup.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

Yeah, it's it's definitely uh an interesting one. So um yeah, so we'll we'll spend time uh talking about Boston and New York, but there are actually some shining lights at the end of this where I think that there was some creativity in a few cities here that we want to give some kudos to, uh, as they definitely deserve it. So uh without further ado, let's start off with the city of Boston.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

The World Cup game in Boston is happening at Gillette Stadium. This is home to the New England Patriots, and currently the MBTA does run a commuter line service out to Patriots Games. It's a stop that really only exists for Patriots Games, and typically uh the cost is about$20 to have a round trip ticket uh out to events at the stadium.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

Yeah, and when you compare that$20 to the cost that someone would have by like going and parking or whatnot, it is a competitive amount, right? Unless maybe you had five people, maybe it's gonna be competitive the price of parking versus taking the train. But$20 to go to a game like that feels like a fair price. On average, a normal Patriots game sees about 65,000 fans in attendance, and roughly two to three thousand of those fans use the commuter rail to get to the game, which frankly is lower than I thought it would be. Um, but it doesn't seem like the service is like up to a really high level. It's not like they're running tons and tons of trains. Um, the times maybe aren't as convenient as you want them to be going in or something like that. I don't know. Um, but not as many fans as I would have thought there would be taking the commuter rail to the games.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

No, it sounds like most fans are driving out there, they're parking, and then uh, as everyone knows, when you go to a major event and you're trying to leave that event, it takes so long to get out of the parking lot. That enough should be an argument that everybody would want to take a train to uh whatever said sporting event that you're going to. Uh, but something they actually do at the stadium, which is kind of interesting, is they offer a tiered pricing based on uh ease of access for leaving the game. So I'm assuming you know the parking area of the parking lot is gonna be fastest for you to get back on the road. Uh you would pay a little bit of a premium for. So, all in all,$20 for that round trip, as you said, relative to what you would spend otherwise, sounds like a steal to me.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Yeah, definitely. Um, and I think they even do like timed exits now, too. So like you can pay less for parking if you do a late timed exit and like you're put into a certain port portion. I don't have like direct experience with this, but like if you're put into like a certain portion of the garage where like you're not allowed to leave until you know whatever time uh pops up. So they're trying to get creative, but man, is there is there a more efficient way? Yes, there is, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

It's called a train. Expectations for the FIFA games are a bit higher than what we typically see for uh the Patriots game. They're still expecting approximately 65,000 fans in attendance, and the big change is that MBTA has committed to being able to move upwards of 20,000 fans per game. So just a massive number of people being moved in and out of here.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Yes, and a lot of the reason why that number is going up so dramatically, uh, it's kind of two main things. Uh, number one, obviously, this is the World Cup. There are fans traveling from around the world, many of which live in countries where the concept of going to rent a car to stay in a big city like Boston and you know go to a sporting game like this, uh, you would never even think about renting a car. So for those folks, you know, it's not even crossing their mind as a need. And to be totally honest, Boston, we've done an episode, Boston using only public transit. You really don't need a car in Boston at all, so there is no reason for them to. But compared to a Patriots game where most fans are driving from all sorts of different parts of New England to get to the game, you're gonna have a lot more folks who are in visiting. Uh, the other kind of element to this is that uh FIFA is setting up all sorts of activations at so many of these stadiums. So you'll have like a fan village or that sort of thing taking up some of the parking areas, as well as a lot more international media uh who are gonna be in town for the games, you know, the NFL games. Yes, you do have media, but it is not media from you know however many different countries are participating from around the world. So uh definitely takes up some of the parking areas.

Boston’s $80 Ticket Cost Debate

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yeah, it's gonna be sort of insane just seeing everything they bring out for these games. Uh to get people to the stadium, like I said, MBTA has committed to 20,000 uh fans being moved per game. They're gonna be running eight car sets with about 1,400 seats, with the expectation that this is going to be standing room only. Uh, so be prepared for that if you are going out to this game. But that means that there could be nearly 2,000 passengers per train. So just again, a massive number of people that were able to move uh in and out of here. And to accommodate all of those extra passengers, MBTA has actually had to construct a temporary extended level boarding platform uh for people to get on and off and speed up that service for the postgames uh arrivals and departures.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Yeah, and from what I understand beforehand, there was a fairly it was a shorter platform and also at least for much of it, required steps to get up and down, which obviously, when you're trying to move a lot of people really quickly, even small things like steps can really take a lot of time, even for folks uh who are fully able to do, you know, go up and down the steps, uh, not to mention for folks who may be in a wheelchair or have other accessibility needs. So um good to see that they are preparing for this with the additional platform. Uh, that additional, not additional platform, but additional uh level boarding platform, it came at a cost of$35 million, which was being paid for by the MBTA. And that is kind of the area where I have seen a lot of the complaints and people who are on the side saying yes, the MBTA should be spending or should be charging folks$80 per person to ride this, are saying it is, you know, to recoup some of the cost of this$35 million price tag. Again, it's being described as temporary in some of these documents, but that is not true when you read further into it. They're already talking about how they're gonna use these for future Patriots games years down the line. So this is a major infrastructure investment that's gonna benefit folks for years to come.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Yeah, uh, if it was$35 million for something that was temporary that you're just gonna take down right after the game, one, I'd want to know why was it$35 million? I'm also still curious about why adding an extension to the platform is$35 million. I don't fully understand the cost associated, but yeah, it it is a long-term investment into what will be future performance at this site. And it's not like this is just for the FIFA games, as you said. So uh they will sort of recoup this over time. It doesn't all have to be done at this single event.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

Yeah. And just for folks who are curious how much it might recoup just from the the World Cup. So at 20,000 fans per game, uh, there are seven games at Gillette Stadium times eighty dollars. Uh, I did not do this math, but a calculator did it for me. It's$11.2 million. So uh you are already recouping quite a bit of it just from this, but then again, to your point, it is gonna be around for years to come. So uh happy to see that as an option.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Yeah, this also seems like something the stadium would put money in towards because it it ultimately benefits the stadium more than anything else. So you would think that you would see either the owner of the Patriots or some other means of putting up funding for this particular, you know, infrastructure investment.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Yes, and uh to that point, uh Robert Kraft is the owner of the Patriots. He also owns the actual stadium, Gillette Stadium, um, which is wild. Uh he's a billionaire, and you know, a lot of stadiums are like some sort of weird partnership where it's like the city owns it, but they lease it to the team or whatever it may be. Um, this is literally one where it's like the owner owns, the owner of the team owns the stadium as well. So yeah, that is a fair critique that he probably should have been paying for this. In all fairness, he did cover the cost of some of the design elements for being able to do this, but um the MBTA was on the hook for the rest.

MetLife Stadium Transit Setup

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Yeah, absolutely. And then there's also other costs that are associated that aren't it's they're really hard to put onto paper in a sort of line item form. But when you have all of these extra people driving to the stadium, there's traffic management costs associated, there's accidents and accident cleanup costs are associated, there's more parking structures that you have to build or in this case, like pave out into the world, and that costs more money. So ultimately, I think what we would be or what they would be saving in those extra costs, again, really hard to put on paper, but are still going to be greater or at least close to what they're spending on the platform extension.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Absolutely. With that, and what we'll kind of get into more as well, just like broader topics on this after we talk about the situation in New York and New Jersey, but let's move on over to that. So the World Cup games that are happening in the New York City area are actually happening over in New Jersey at MetLife Stadium, which is home to the New York Giants and New York Jets. Uh, yes, the both New York teams play in New Jersey. Makes perfect sense. Um, if you do want to go to one of those games, New Jersey Transit does run special game day service from New York Penn Station to the stadium for just$12.90. And if you were to board in New Jersey at Seacaucus Junction, Secaucus Junction, it's only$5.20. So uh a pretty good deal and even cheaper than what uh Boston offers for their normal game day service for the Patriots fans.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

For the Jets and Giants games, the stadium capacity is about$82,500 fans. Usually roughly 10,000 to 12,000 fans are using the New Jersey transit service to attend the games. And this stadium is also surrounded by a sea of parking for those who want to drive. I think you can probably imagine what that looks like. Actually, I'm thinking back to our Arlington, Texas in a day video where we just kind of meandered around a parking lot for hours. Yes. Yes. Um yeah, that's just exactly what I'm picturing for this particular stadium.

The $150 Train And $80 Bus

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Yes, that is definitely a familiar site for a lot of US sports fans who have ventured to one of the many stadiums surrounded by massive parking lots. Um, moving on to the FIFA games, though, uh, similar to in Boston, the expectations for folks riding transit will be on the higher side. The stadiums are holding roughly 82,000 fans, and for the World Cup, we are expecting 40,000 fans per game to be using New Jersey Transit. So almost half of the attendees to the games uh are going to be using New Jersey Transit, whether that be by rail or by bus. And the big headline here is that New Jersey Transit is charging$150 per person for a round trip ticket from Penn Station to the stadium, which is absolutely absurd. Highway robbery, price gouging, call it whatever you will, but there is there is no justification where you can sleep well at night and charge people$150 for this. I can't I like actually can't get over it. It's kind of ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

I just call this uh New Jersey transit congestion pricing. When the the trains are extra congested, the price goes up. Uh it's the New Jersey governor, Mickey Sherrill, says it will cost New Jersey Transit an extra 62 million to surge services for the tournament. 62 million uh to provide extra service to make sure they're getting enough people in and out of this stadium.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

Uh yeah, and I mean I'm not arguing that like it's not gonna cost more to increase the rail service, and we'll kind of get into what the other costs that you're potentially saving are here. But I yeah, I will I'll I'll save it for later. I'm getting ahead of myself here. But um so some of the reasons for the additional transit ridership, uh it's a combination again, similar to Boston, the cutdown on some of the parking for uh the FIFA activations and kind of village area that they have set up for the games, as well as international media and whatnot. So that is kind of limiting the parking, as well as the influx of fans coming in from other countries who are more likely to be riding transit in general.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Yeah. But there's also a budget option, Lewis. Uh a budget option that is a bus, as you would expect, that takes you from the Port Authority bus terminal all the way to the stadium. And it comes in at a low, low, low price of just$80 a ticket.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Wild that that is the budget option, which is crazy. Uh, to compare, there is a similar service for Jets and Giants games on the the bus from the Port Authority, uh, which normally costs$18. Um, they've also created a couple barriers for getting this. So you need to purchase these bus tickets in advance. You need your World Cup ticket info when you're doing that reservation, which is definitely going to kind of unnecessarily complicate the process a bit, I feel like. I don't I don't know. Uh seems unnecessary.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

It does seem unnecessary. I don't know why anybody would pay$80 to take a ride out to the stadium for fun. It seems like that would definitely be right.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Yes, that's a good point, actually. Like, yeah, like I'm gonna lie to go out to the stadium and stand outside.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense to me at all. And the same thing is gonna happen with the buses that you would expect to happen with buses. They're gonna sit in traffic and it's gonna take longer to get there than using a train. And it's just such an odd choice for the budget option. I I don't fully understand why it's$80 for to begin with, but to me, you would offer you know trains as a budget to get out there because it's gonna be faster. They should theoretically not spend$60 million to do it. Uh that also doesn't make sense to me, but yeah, it's just just kind of wild.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

Um I also there are it's hard to oh, sorry, I I also read on this, like it's hard to have an actual estimate, but somewhere it was saying that New Jersey transit was saying to you know allow upwards of 90 minutes for this trip because of all the traffic on a trip that should take like 20 or 30 minutes. So like they even know that it's gonna not be good. I just I it it doesn't it doesn't make sense at all. One other thought on this is on a per person basis, when we're comparing this like budget option of the bus to the train, wouldn't it cost less per person to move people by train than it would be by bus in this case? Like I I know that that math maybe doesn't work if they're not full, but both of these options are going to be absolutely full and packed. I I actually don't I should know this, but like it feels like it would be more efficient money-wise as well to move people on the train.

Tax Revenue Versus Rider Fairness

SPEAKER_01 16:58

I think the actual the actual movement of the train from point A to point B, yes, it should be cheaper if you have more people. I'm wondering if there's some other costs associated with them having to transport more trains to this area or something. But yeah, absolutely. On an operational basis, the train should be the cheaper option. If you are a transportation expert out there who disagrees, who says no, the bus is the cheaper option to move this number of people, let us know. But it just makes sense. I feel like that would be in my head, it makes more economical sense to put people onto one vehicle, as many people as possible on one vehicle and and send it down the road. So I don't know.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Um, well, anyway, so those are the two kind of main headlines here: the$150 ticket and the$80 ticket. Broadly speaking, though, too, I mean, there's a lot of focus being on, you know, Mickey Sherrill saying, oh, it's gonna cost$63 million to do this surge in funding. The MBTA in in Boston and and the you know uh folks in government in Massachusetts are saying, oh, we're spending this$35 million for the platform and whatnot. Uh I was able to find the stats for New York and New Jersey. They're projected to generate$431.9 million in new tax revenue as a direct result of the games alone. So this is not counting like, you know, all the extra money that's going to be flowing into local businesses and hotels and restaurants and bars and tips going to waiters and waitresses and bartenders who are then going to then go in and spend that money again. And so, like the the amount of money be that we're like complaining about in these cities is just a drop in the bucket compared to the overall benefits coming into these same cities in the form of tax revenue later, which is maddening to think about. That like you were complaining when we're getting so much out of it in the long run.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

Yeah, and I guess the the argument from the agency is well, they're providing the money, but they don't get that tax revenue back per se. That's not, you know, a one-to-one return sort of thing. But for the region generally, this is a much healthier uh uh economic engine that's happening than um what they seem to be alluding to when they're talking about spending all this money. Like, yes, this money is going to just basically go right back into the local economy, even if the agents aren't necessarily agencies aren't necessarily seeing it. But that's also a local political problem. That's something that you know the city or the state says, okay, we will give you an extra amount this season for a little extra service to go to these games because it is such a big economic engine for our region. But again, that gets in the politics of it, which is a whole other conversation. Um, but definitely there are more things they could be doing to lessen the burden on the people attending these events, especially those who are coming from uh other places. And honestly, at the end of the day, if you're coming from another country, you've spent the money to come to the US, to have a flight, to say, to get a visa, to save for a hotel, to go out here, and you're you're planning on spending a decent amount of money, this$150 may not be that big of a deal to you. But what I do hate about this is that if you are just a normal person living in New York or in the suburbs of New York and you want to go to this game, and this is the easiest way to go, you are being penalized as well. And so it's just it sucks for the people who don't necessarily have the means, who just really, really want to go to these games.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Yeah, that is a really important point because like I I agree with you. Like, I don't feel bad for the people who are like who bought like the fancy seats right up front and who are spending like that their tickets alone were probably two, three thousand dollars a piece or whatever. Um, there's plenty of ultra-wealthy people who will be going to these games. But the thing is, is I feel like those ultra-wealthy people are not gonna be the ones taking the train. No, they're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

They're gonna be the ones that are getting driven to the game.

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Yeah, they're gonna get driven to the game, they're gonna have that like premium parking spot or get freaking dropped in in a helicopter or something ridiculous. Um, meanwhile, the people who like this is their one big vacation of the year who did have to say, you know, like, yes, they're fortunate enough to be able to, you know, save up the money to be able to do this trip, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're not like a working class person or family who are doing it. And, you know, yes, they're gonna have the 150 bucks to your point, they probably will. But it just feels like a slap in the face to to do this again, like when it's it just it feels so unnecessary.

Philly And KC Offer Better Models

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Agreed. I think it's unnecessary. Uh, if we take a step back and talk about the economic engine piece of this, there is also another downside to forcing people onto the road, and that includes buses as well. If they're going to try to manage traffic in a way that gets the buses there faster, that allows more cars to go from a very pretty direct point A to point B, it's gonna come with more traffic jams, more road closures, more police that need to manage that. Um, with road closures and with all this extra traffic, you're driving away local patrons who would typically visit these neighborhood businesses or these small little town center businesses. They're not gonna come to those places they would normally go when traffic is really high for these events. So there's also going to be a negative impact locally for some of these places. The train with a very enclosed point A to point B, carrying as many people as possible, increasing the frequency of that. To me, economically, I'll end here, just makes the most sense for the least amount of disruption and the best uh sort of recapture for this economic engine.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

No, you're definitely right with all of that, and it's just like you know, if you're not gonna spend the money in one. Area, it's gonna it's like people have to get there some way, and there is one way that is clearly more efficient, and I don't even need to explain what it is. So I do want to move on to two positive notes here. Two cities that I think are doing fairly unique things, uh, starting off with Philadelphia. So Philadelphia, which uh, if you're interested in transit in Philadelphia, we've done a couple episodes talking about it, one where we actually did Philadelphia ended using only public transit, but uh we had a fun interview. Well, we've had a couple fun interviews, um, one with uh Steve from the YouTube channel How We Get Around, as well as uh one with uh Jay from the Roosevelt Boulevard uh subway movement. So if you're interested in Philly stuff, go check that out. But um SEPTA is not raising their fares for the games. Uh it will be$2.90, just like it always is. But this was kind of unique that they actually have Airbnb uh sponsoring the ride home. So I think it is interesting for a transit agency to partner with a private company like that. So, you know, like whatever you think about Airbnb, for SEPTA to offset their costs by finding this outside partner uh makes a lot of sense. Um, and I think is a unique way to try to solve some of these cost constraints.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Yeah, and it seems like in a place like New York, New Jersey, where every major company in the world just about is represented, uh, and there's so much money out there for events like this, you would be able to find a partner. Um if anything, I would say the New York Jets and Giants could come together in partnership as a partnership for this. It's not like they're lacking money either.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

So the sponsorship sponsorship idea feels really like the like American solution for this. It's like the most capitalist way to try to try to pull it off. Um I also wanted to point out Yeah. Uh I also wanted to point out here that Philly actually did something fairly similar to this when they had their kind of uh I mean they they're they still have longer-term funding problems that they need to solve and their state government needs to get on. But when there was a brief period where SEPTA had actually already had to roll back some of their funding, service to the I I believe it was an Eagles game was actually not going to happen. And as much as I hate to be like supporting an online gambling service, so one of the online gambling companies actually stepped in and funded the service to the game. So uh I again I think SEPTA getting a little bit creative to try to pull some of this stuff stuff off. Um, so I think folks who are doing that sort of thing should should get some credit for it.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Yeah, I I absolutely. And now that you say that, now I'm wondering why Vegas wasn't one of the host cities because stadiums right there and be easy and casinos would pay for it. Anyway, the other city that we want to highlight for doing good things is one of our favorite cities, very near and dear to the channel, and that is Kansas City. Uh, we talk about Kansas City at this point, I think, more than any other city uh that we have covered so far. And very district. They are offering a$50 month-long pass that covers uh all regional transit for the World Cup. So very affordable. Uh it's all regional travel. It's not just a per you know trip like you would see in other places. Um, I think$50 for the entire month is is incredibly reasonable uh for this region. And they also offer a free airport coach uh that has a shuttle directly from the airport to downtown uh for the entire tournament as well. So anybody who's visiting Kansas City, you get a very easy ride from the airport to downtown uh and then$50 to get out to the games back and forth. So not bad.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Yeah. And, you know, if I feel a little bad because Kansas City scored very poorly in our ranking list of all of the North American World Cup cities. Again, you can go check that episode out. Um, but I mean Kansas City has basically had to like prop up a temporary transit network for the games where they have shuttles kind of going to places that their normal transit network doesn't get people to super effectively. Um, there are a lot of shining lights in Kansas City as well, you know, the that the that are people working hard to make things happen, especially specifically Kansas City Streetcar, which has been able to celebrate uh a couple, you know, extensions and things like that happening. So they're you know, I don't want to fully knock it, um, but their their bus network uh as a whole definitely needs some love. So um it it didn't score super well on the on the list, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 26:55

But no city's perfect, Lewis.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Yeah. Um but overall, I mean, my my final thought complaint on this overall is just kind of like if the United States as a country, like we want to go out and be like, yes, let's host these big events and and be excited about hosting the World Cup or hosting the Olympics or hosting whatever you know big event it may be, like you you can't you shouldn't go out and try to attract these big events, which also bring in lots of you know a lot big money to your country without being willing to foot the bill for the required infrastructure to make it happen. Like you can't ask for these things to come and complain when they don't happen, and then when they do happen, complain about like, oh well, now we have to spend money to run the train so people can get to that big event. Like it's it's just it's pretty weak. I don't know. Um, it's lame to see so many politicians in some of these states doing it. And and I I understand some of their complaints too. Like I heard Mickey Sherrill being like, oh, like FIFA should pay for it. And it's like, yes, FIFA is gonna make a cajillion dollars on these games, but like they also can host them anywhere, and it's like I I I don't know.

Wrap Up And Audience Challenge

SPEAKER_01 28:07

It it doesn't I agree with you again. Going back to the economic engine argument, the people who bid to FIFA to get these games hosted in their cities, like they they know the big picture of what this brings back to the city, back to the local economy. So they, I don't think, are sweating these costs, but when it comes down to people like Mike Cheryl or the agencies who have to create a real budget around it, this is where Mike Sherrill should get to with the legislature and say, hey, we need to send New Jersey Transit uh a little boost this year for covering this. It's part of this larger economic engine, like our larger economic package that came with hosting the games. So this is more, I think, on the politicians who need to be planning better.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

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SPEAKER_00 29:19

Okay, I'm saving that do public transit verb set. Watch me go.