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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 4334069, member: 1646"] I went to World Cup game back in 1994 at Giant Stadium. I was working in NYC at the time. There were a ton of small busses leaving from Port Authority to the Meadowlands. It was relatively smooth and I was on the bus with a bunch of fans and some press. But when we got out of the tunnel there was a ton of traffic (no surprise, it was a rush hour game time) and the bus driver panicked and went the wrong way. I was calmly trying to direct him (as an NJ native), but he refused to listen to me and wound up on the Turnpike South, so we had to fight our way through that traffic (South then North again). We wound up missing the first half of the game. Some on the bus were apoplectic, especially the poor reporter that was trying to see and report on his team. I can't actually remember who played. I do remember it was a 1-0 final and the only goal came in the first half. They took down our names/addresses, and must have asked us additional questions, because a month or two later I got a check in the mail for the bus fare and all (or some) of the ticket price. That was a long winded way of i) telling my story, ii) but also remembering that they actually did an ok job jury rigging transportation (as long as you had a competent driver). Now you can get to the meadowlands by train (which can't get lost). Hopefully, they run a lot of trains since sometimes it's a disaster getting out on a train. [/QUOTE]