Amid backlash over World Cup parking and transportation, LA Metro offers a solution

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Ticket prices are just the start of the soaring expenses many fans will face while trying to watch World Cup games this summer.NJ Transit is charging $150 for round-trip tickets from Manhattan to the Meadowlands (the regular price is $12.60) for the World Cup final, while host committee shuttle buses will cost $80.The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is demanding $80 to ride one of the 14 express trains on the 30-mile trip from downtown Boston to Foxborough for games at Gillette Stadium.That’s more than three times the normal price.Parking in Kansas City, meanwhile, will set you back by as much as $900, depending on the game and lot.

Soccer U.S.soccer fans are outraged by FIFA’s ticket sale system that included high prices and poor seat locations that were revealed after the purchases were completed.In Southern California, however, it will cost $1.75 to get to SoFi Stadium on a combination of buses or trains from as far away as Claremont and Simi Valley.

That’s also what it costs to get to the Inglewood venue on any other day of the year; only two of the 11 World Cup cities in the U.S.are offering less expensive public transportation.“We’re trying to make things convenient,” said Conan Cheung, the chief operations officer for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or LA Metro, the second-largest transit agency in the country, servicing more than 305 million riders in 2025.That’s a marked departure from the experience fans have reported ahead of this summer’s World Cup, which was marked by complaints over difficulty getting access to buy tickets, high ticket prices, shifts in seat locations after they were purchased, high fees and expensive game-day transportation.“There’s no standardized fare set across the board,” Cheung said of World Cup transportation.

“We’ve made a commitment to keep our system accessible.The way w...