Newark has a terminal train that takes you to NJT. You can go to the city or into Jersey from there. Pretty straightforward. Don't lump it in with the hell on earth trips to LGA or JFK. The only good way to get to those airports is from a connecting flight,
There is a local NJ Transit bus from the Newark Airport to Newark Penn Station that is super cheap and runs frequently 24/7, if I remember correctly. PATH runs from Penn Station to the World Trade Center and to midtown Manhattan with a transfer. Yes, the bus is $1.60 and PATH is $2.75, so $4.35 from the airport to Manhattan.
One neighbor of AFC's new stadium isn't happy. They say the driveway is within 10 feet of their front door but it looks even closer than that. https://www.kvue.com/amp/article/mo...eway/269-9d319fa8-1aef-4b79-9a04-8e1bf057487e
What an awkward location. Reminds me of that church that sits like 10 feet from Orlando City's stadium. Apparently they decided not to sell that tiny parcel, I bet they're regretting that decision.
Austin should give them the contracts for any printed material the team requires (office stuff, game day rosters, programs, etc).
Putting the driveway to the loading docks where it is doesn't look accidental. Maybe Precourt is "encouraging" Paragon to sell their site to him. He easily could have put it another 50 away if he'd wanted to.
It wasn't clear to me if that driveway is permanent or is just for construction site access. I looked up that print shop on Google Street View, and it looks like it was in the middle of nowhere before the stadium construction.
Something to argue over... I rated every MLS team's current or future stadium in four unweighted categories:- Location (How is the neighborhood?)- Accessibility (How accessible is it?)- Building (How is the form and function?)- Atmosphere (How is the gameday experience?) pic.twitter.com/6GnGjruVm1— Alex Schieferdecker (@alexschief) March 20, 2021
Which also brings up the danger of building to within 10 feet of your property line and putting your front door on that side when you build in the middle of nowhere. Either buy the lot next door, or realize this is a potentiality waiting to happen.
Yes but the schedule is awful, especially at weekends. And what makes it worse is that you can see the NJT station well before the Airtrain arrives so you can see a train arrive and leave before the Airtrain pulls in or you may have to sprint up and down the steps. Trains to NY Penn Station from EWR now: 8:16 pm 8:22 pm 9:04 pm 9:15 pm 9:20 pm 10:04 pm
Ugh, that list is rough. Somebody doesn't have a good understanding of many (most?) of the venues and markets and is trying to draw conclusions on that lack of data.
It's lazy methodology and even then there's no rigor. CenturyLink(?) and Soldier are "5" for the building, but Gillette is a "1". I mean, holy crap. Gillette is a stunning sporting venue. World Class. If you don't like the atmosphere, punish it there. And of course the pot shot in a 1-10 scale table of putting Yankee Stadium at -5 is just gratuitous. I'm also wondering what, in Kansas City would rate as "accessible" as the intersection of I-435 and I-70 is about as accessible as it gets in KC. Moreso than downtown... Lazy, lazy, lazy. I also -love- charts that give grades to stadiums that have yet to reach the structural steel stage of construction. This is someone that shoots first and draws circles later. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
Then his following tweet says the Dick is one of 6 stadiums that are "actively preventing their clubs from achieving any kind of local relevancy". Of the list of reasons the Rapids have failed to have local relevancy in Denver the Dick is like number 23.
I would bet Elmo is older than this guy. Those ratings are based off fan reaction on Twitter. Not much thought put into this one.
I was fortunate enough to get a tour of New Crew a couple weeks ago. They took four small groups through as part of a Women In Construction presentation ( my group was led by a senior project engineer and the quality control manager, both females in their 30's) They took us everywhere from the owners suite to the locker rooms to the field itself where they were busy laying the tubing for turf control around where we were standing, plus all the clubs and suites, the central kitchen, etc. I freely admit that Im about as biased as its possible to be but I gotta say that I was awed.. What a place. The thing that just floored me was a room below grade, about 50 x 80, where the turf system is run. Huge pumps and piping and instrumentation which both maintains precise moisture levels ( draining rain, adding water and nutrients when dry) but also keeps it at an even temperature 365 days a year. The company that installed it has done one system or the other in various places but this is the first place theyve done both in the same facility. Which is actually good practice because theyre now installing the exact same systems in every new stadium in Qatar. Same outfit. The best part: the field manager can control every single aspect of the system in real time on a phone app. The place is simply insane.
And the idea that Toronto has a worse location than anywhere except Foxboro, Colorado, and Lockhart is just bonkers. But congrats to Cincinnati's new stadium for achieving 9/10 atmosphere without even having a game.
I see we each were most impressed by the same room on the tour. AND, they're using the same system at the new training facility, which must be what the one outbuilding you see on the construction cam is for. That room in the stadium; full of that looked familiar (like pumps), but most of it was stuff I'd never seen before, or knew existed. Like equipment that could measure and adjust pH and moisture levels surgically across the entire pitch. At some point I'll ask Dr. Pete what the stuff in that room cost.
Cincinnati is getting carry over points for atmosphere from Nippert. Given the location of the new stadium, it’s probably a good starting point. Lockhart is a great location... Cypress Creek an Commercial Blvd exits off I-95. Right in the middle of the South Florida megalopolis. ‘Downtown’ is a pretty meaningless concept to an area like that. It’s definitely no worse than any option Beckham considered, aside from the fact that it isn’t in Miami proper (not a bad thing).
The original proposed location on the water was an absolute knockout. Way better than anything theyve come up with since and maybe the best in the league. But he wasnt prepared for the shocking level of corruption that killed it. Hes basically been sorting through crappy choices ever since. Austin had a similar problem. Butler Shores was a phenominal site, absolute home run. Garber & and his little buddy used to sneak out of sxsw, drive over and sit in the rental jerking each other. Little did they suspect that a couple of shabby, neglected little league baseball fields would stand in ther way. So they too ended up sorting through undesirable locations, having to settle for a toxic waste dump 12 miles from downtown. Sometimes its way better to pull the plug on a project than settle for a crappy site. Ten years down the road it will matter more than it does today.
For Miami, are you talking about the cruise terminal island location? If so, it would have been a beautiful stadium that was almost impossible to get to, with nothing nearby. So, all the disadvantages of Austin’s location. It would have been a real pain to get to, even for people in Miami.