Field of Schemes: Transit delays for Jets stadium?

December 23, 2004

Transit delays for Jets stadium?

Now that's what was missing from the New York Jets stadium debate: Lawyers! And lots of 'em! Two separate lawsuits were filed against the multi-billion-dollar Hudson Yards redevelopment project yesterday, one by a coalition of West Side groups including Madison Square Garden owners Cablevision, the other by a pair of mass-transit advocacy groups. Both challenged the environmental impact statement for the project, saying it was based on faulty polling by the Jets that found 70% of fans would take mass transit to games. Most stadiums currently draw less than half their fans by mass transit or on foot, according to the New York Times, and even Madison Square Garden, in central Manhattan and sitting atop a transit hub, brings in only 52% of its fans by means other than automobiles.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office immediately responded by calling the Cablevision-connected lawsuit the work of "lying monopolists." The transit-advocacy groups, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the Straphangers Campaign, did not receive an epithet of their own from the mayor.

COMMENTS

People drive to Madison Square Garden??
Posted by: Rob at December 23, 2004 02:02 PM

So says the Times. Lord knows where they park, though there are a bunch of pay lots around there.
Posted by: Neil at December 23, 2004 03:54 PM

Trust me. If the Jets move to Manhattan, tailgaters will find a place to park. I want to know how the NYDP would tow away 20,00 cars on the same day, all manned by drunken Jets fans (the ONLY kind of Jets fans -- joke)!
Posted by: tinheart at December 23, 2004 05:25 PM

Forget this Manhattan stuff. Let's build this same multi-purpose stadium in Queens where there is lots of wide open space in which to tailgate.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 17, 2005 09:39 PM