Overview
- Tickets for the special commuter rail service, which the MBTA announced Monday, go on sale Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the mTicket app for riders holding a same-day match ticket.
- The fare covers a round trip between South Station and Foxboro Station and unlocks travel across the entire Commuter Rail network on match days, with tickets limited, nonrefundable, and tied to the email used to buy the match ticket.
- MBTA plans express trains with no intermediate stops and expects to move up to about 20,000 people per match, a scale the agency calls unprecedented compared with typical Patriots game ridership.
- The $80 price is roughly four times the usual $20 special-event return and far above typical $8.75 commuter fares, with officials pointing to a $35 million Foxboro Station upgrade plus added staffing, security, and late-night service needs.
- Supporter groups in England and Scotland have condemned the cost and warned of debt pressures, while reports point to $175 parking at the stadium, possible $90 host-committee buses, and draft plans in New Jersey that could limit Penn Station access to match ticket holders before MetLife games.