Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Far fewer passengers than expected used NJ Transit to get to and from the weekend's first of eight World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium, temporarily renamed New York New Jersey Stadium, in East Rutherford.

“They had 21,000 people,” Larry Higgs, a transportation and commuting reporter for NJ.com, told NJ Spotlight News. “They were prepared to move 40,000 people.”

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