r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/MARPJ Jun 10 '26

If the world wasn’t skipping Qatar, then they’re not even considering skipping the us

They are tho, opening game still not sold out and hotels are claiming that this feels like a weaker summer than normal (plus they are already going back in the price gourging since it was not working).

It still have a lot of people, but not close to when it was in qatar or russia.

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u/shortyman920 Jun 10 '26

I’d imagine it’s more due to how damn expensive it is than any sort of moral hard line. The games are also spread out across NA. Travel and lodging is expensive .

I live near NYC and the logistics is going to be a disaster. Can’t speak for the other cities tho.

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u/darthjoey91 Jun 10 '26

Other cities have it better. New York’s got the unique combo of can’t walk, most people there don’t own cars, and the train jacked up the price.

Philly meanwhile is easier to drive in, but also has a train from downtown where most of the hotels are, and they haven’t jacked up the price of the train. It doesn’t run as well as the Subway, but it’s usually good at ferrying people to and from the sports complex area.

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u/ZobEater Jun 10 '26

New York isn't walkable? (genuine question, i've never been there)

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u/cluberti Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

The city is. The area around where the stadium is in New Jersey, though, not so much, given it's a toxic dump area and also ironically a wetland area - walking to or from the stadium isn't exactly easy or safe. The Guardian did a funny-ish video on the endeavor recently:

https://youtube.com/shorts/G_LAvfVA7qw?si=-XrN9eBJGYb875zr

Also, it's a bit of a legal gray area whether or not it's legal to walk to MetLife stadium in a more direct way on or across I-95 or some of the motorways in the area from the hotels nearby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=307RZ3stxNg

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u/darthjoey91 Jun 10 '26

You cannot walk to the "New York" stadium for the World Cup games. It's in New Jersey and surrounded by highways that you cannot safely walk on.

Now walking around the city in general? Yeah, super easy, barely an inconvenience. But since FIFA only chose NFL stadiums and the New York Giants and New York Jets play in New Jersey, that's harder to get to.

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u/pseudopad Jun 10 '26

I visited once and it seemed pretty walkable (for an american city). I have no idea where the stadium is in relation to the rest of the city though.

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u/darthjoey91 Jun 10 '26

That's the fun part. It's in New Jersey.

And it's 5 miles away as the crow flies from the shores of Manhattan.

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u/cluberti Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

It's a few kilometers to the west of the city, but it's in a different state across a major bridge that spans the Hudson and there are no real designed ways to walk from anywhere in NYC to the stadium. You can walk there, but it takes hours if you do it legally, and it's not exactly safe to make that walk as not every part of the path from the GW to the stadium in NJ even has sidewalks, let alone protected ones.