Please accept my sincere thanks for your efforts in delivering the first mass transit Super Bowl. I must express how proud I am of you, and of NJ TRANSIT.
Thanks to your dedication and hard work, we carried a record number of customers to and from MetLife Stadium yesterday – 28,000 to the Meadowlands and more than 35,000 out of the stadium after the game ended. Those numbers crush our previous record of 22,000 customers carried for the U2 concert in 2009. We did it safely and efficiently, all while under Level One national security conditions.
To put this in perspective, NJ TRANSIT yesterday carried more than 40% of the announced Super Bowl attendance of 82,529 and 22,000 of our customers bought their tickets on the day of the game. It truly was a mass transit Super Bowl.
This was a team effort: Rail, Bus, Police, Light Rail, Access Link, ambassadors – everyone in every department, at every garage, rail yard and office across the state made yesterday a success with efforts that started well before Super Bowl Sunday. You began welcoming Super Bowl fans early last week and stayed with Super Bowl guests late into the day today.
Thank you for making NJ TRANSIT look every bit as good as we are – and for making New Jersey shine on the world stage.
Jim Weinstein