SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — The New York area’s major transportation agencies announced separate plans for moving crowds of football fans for February’s Super Bowl, and their presentations Monday carried a common theme: Don’t drive.
“I think it’s the smartest thing — people don’t know where they’re going and it’s a dense area,” said Al Kelly, head of the Super Bowl host committee. “If you want to party, it’s a safe way to get around, a reliable way to get around. I think people should put the getting around in the hands of the professionals.”
Those professionals gathered at the Secaucus Junction rail station to outline their plans. Absent was a plan to offer an all-purpose pass that could be used on all transit systems in New York and New Jersey. That had been discussed in the early stages after the game was awarded to MetLife Stadium in 2010, but was ultimately deemed too complicated, Kelly said Monday.
Organizers are billing the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl as the first mass-transit Super Bowl, and their fervent hope is that fans will use public transportation to get to the game as well as to the official and non-official activities leading up to it.
This will affect all of the communities in and around Met Life stadium, including Rutherford NJ
