Soccer fans face more travel hell over World Cup match at MetLife

World Cup fans faced transit hell no matter what for Tuesday’s match at MetLife Stadium.Spectators who drove to see the 3 p.m.game between France and Senegal in New Jersey were exasperated after paying around $225 to park — then having to walk nearly 30 minutes to the venue — while others crammed into yellow taxis, sometimes with strangers, in Manhattan to get there.Attendees who took NJ Transit trains also were still calling a penalty on the expensive ticket price — a $98 mandatory round-trip ride.

 “It’s like an exorbitant amount above what you would usually pay to get over,” said France fan Sayo Ajagbe, 23, at Penn Station before boarding.“There’s no way to get over — I might as well have taken an Uber, if it wasn’t for traffic or that it will probably take even more time,” he said.Akshay Anil, 31, called the transit price “absolutely outrageous” even as he spent $800 on a ticket for the match.“You can charge a little high, that’s fine,” said Anil, a University of Mississippi student.“But $98, that’s too much.That like eight times the increase from the regular price.”The high price was implemented by New Jersey Gov.

Mikie Sherrill for the eight games scheduled to take place at the East Rutherford stadium between June and July, leading to outcry leading up to the global tournament.While scores of fans were also bused over on vehicles provided by New York state out of the Port Authority in Manhattan — a much cheaper alternative to the train at $10 each way — the number of riders was capped at 12,000.Fans who drove on their own to the American Dream Mall near the stadium weren’t any happier that train riders, walking nearly a half-hour to reach their destination after forking over $225 for a parking spot.“I paid almost three hundred bucks for parking and still wound up hiking what felt like a mile and a half.I get it, there are security concerns and all that, and overall everyone’s doing a good job keeping order,...