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Posted by Randyo on Wed Apr 6 14:27:47 2011, in response to Football fans don't take mass transit?!, posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 6 12:35:48 2011. It seems that there is a return to mass transit in many areas like car crazy california which did away with many mass transit lines like Pacific Electric years ago. Now at greater expense than it would have been had these lines been maintained, they are being rebuilt if not in entirety at least in part as is the case with the L A Blue Line to Long Beach. That being said, think back to the days when the NY Giants played at first the Polo Grounds and later Yankee Stadium and the NY Titans which became the Jets who stared playing at the Polo grounds and moved to shea Stadium. All of the stadiums I mentioned were accessible to mass transit and plenty of football fans used the subway lines adjacent to them to go to the games. Although it failed, there was an effort made to locate a Jets football stadium in NY which would have been accessible to the NYCTA, LIRR and NJT. Other examples quoted in the article seem to indicate that unless individuals live so far from mass transit that it is highly inconvenient or impossible to utilize it, given the choice, football fans will elect to use mass transit rather than sit in the heavy traffic generated by a game and fume over being stuck in traffic on the way to or from a game. |
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