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NJ Transit’s massive World Cup price hike is a shameful betrayal for the fans

Leave it to New Jersey to embarrass the entire nation by jacking up train tickets for this summer’s fast-approaching World Cup matches to a preposterous $100 a pop just two months before they start.

More than 1 million fans from all over the globe have already purchased their plane tickets and booked expensive hotel rooms to attend the biggest sporting event on the planet.

Now those travelers are rudely learning they’ll have to pay an extra, ludicrous $100 per person for an 18-mile rickety ride from New York Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford that normally costs $12.90.

And that goes for everybody — from your 5-year-old son to your 85-year-old dad. Chances are, they’ll have to stand in the aisle of one of those aging aluminum cans, too.

That’s insane. I’d cancel. Don’t feed into the Garden State’s wasteful mismanagement of........

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