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Who put the car-haters in charge of getting people to World Cup matches at MetLife?

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Soccer fans stranded in the Jersey marshes wasn’t the image the World Cup organizers were going for, but it’s their own fault that’s what they got.

Put a notoriously corrupt global sports federation (FIFA) together with a famously inefficient local transit system (NJ Transit) and, surprise, you get logistics disaster, with thousands struggling to get home from MetLife Stadium hours after Saturday’s Brazil-Morocco match ended.

FIFA, Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to close the stadium’s massive parking lots may have satisfied their collective fetish for public transit and slaked their obsessive car hatred, but it totally ignored the traffic........

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