New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announces another NJ Transit World Cup ticket cut days after first reduction

Just days aft NJ Transit reduced 2026 FIFA World Cup bid summons prices aft backlash, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced yet different cut. 

Last week, the round-trip tickets from New York Penn Station to MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey were chopped from the archetypal outgo of $150 to $105. 

Now, Sherrill announced the tickets person gone down to $98 round-trip up of them going connected merchantability Tuesday night.

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Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., narrowly carried Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s battleground territory successful 2025. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

"Good news: Ahead of NJ TRANSIT World Cup bid tickets going connected merchantability tonight, @NJTRANSIT is lowering summons prices to $98 without New Jersey payer money," Sherrill wrote connected X.

 "Thank you to our partners — DoorDash, Audible, FanDuel, DraftKings, PSE&G, South Jersey Industries, and American Water — for helping marque this possible. 

"We’re excited to big a world-class lawsuit this summertime and showcase New Jersey connected a planetary stage."

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NJ Transit and the FIFA New York New Jersey Host Committee caught flak aft the primitively announced $150 terms of the round-trip tickets. Their statement was it would yet outgo taxpayers if they didn’t person that abnormal terms acceptable for the influx of those getting to MetLife Stadium from New York City.

Then, NJ Transit announced past week it received monetary enactment from "sponsors and different sources" successful capable to get prices lowered. Now we cognize those sponsors aft Sherrill’s connection connected societal media. 

Sherrill and FIFA got into a spat aft the $150 terms came retired arsenic well. The politician said FIFA should assistance wage for bid tickets, portion the governing assemblage criticized Sherrill’s "unprecedented" program and added that the costly bid tickets would person a "chilling effect" connected the instrumentality experience. 

Transit officials are preparing for an unprecedented fig of riders during World Cup matches this summer. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)

"Governor Sherrill has been wide that FIFA should lend to transport its fans to World Cup games. Since it hasn’t, she directed NJ Transit to question backstage and non-taxpayer dollars to importantly trim the fare," a spokesperson for Sherrill told The Athletic. "The Governor appreciates each the companies that person already stepped up to little the costs for summons holders.  She volition proceed to guarantee the World Cup is an acquisition that benefits fans and each New Jerseyans."

NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri defended the archetypal price, saying the eventual outgo to the nationalist proscription institution shouldn’t load New Jersey commuters. 

"It is an breathtaking infinitesimal for New Jersey to showcase New Jersey's diverseness arsenic good arsenic its economical lasting successful the state and successful the world. Equally important, (Sherrill) has said that New Jersey commuters cannot and volition not subsidize the question of fans going to the game, due to the fact that that would not beryllium fair," Kolluri said, reiterating that the tourney volition outgo NJ Transit $48 million.

"In bid to determination 40,000 radical and to wage for the outgo of $6 cardinal (per game), we person to complaint $150."

The regular bid fare from New York Penn Station to MetLife Stadium round-trip is $12.90. 

Commuters determination done the NJ Transit conception of Penn Station successful New York City connected May 20, 2025, aft NJ Transit resumed operations pursuing a tentative woody to extremity a three-day onslaught by bid engineers. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Meanwhile, parking has been prohibited astatine MetLife Stadium, and ride-sharing volition beryllium limited, yet starring to a earthy summation successful NJ Transit commutes for World Cup matches.

The archetypal crippled astatine MetLife Stadium is June 13 with a radical signifier lucifer betwixt Brazil and Morocco.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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