Anti-Climate Change Concert: Exit 16W

So "Live Earth" US has been scheduled for Giants Stadium on July 7. It's a concert benefiting anti-climate change charities, and will feature a lot of acts I'd really like to see: the Police, Kanye West, Smashing Pumpkins, Ludacris, Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson. However, Giants Stadium is such a total nightmare to get to that it would take some kind of dream lineup to get me there. Like, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, circa-1981 R.E.M. and Wolfgang Amadeus Fucking Mozart. The one time I ever went to Giants Stadium, for an exhibition match between Juventus and Manchester United, getting in and out of the stadium required wells of ingenuity of the depth usually reserved for solving the Middle East crisis.

We probably should've driven, but instead tried to take a bus from the Port Authority. After walking past the (literally) block-long lines for Meadowlands shuttle buses, we bought tickets for a regular NJ Transit bus and convinced the driver to just let us off at a gas station a half-mile from the stadium. We got into the stadium in time, but when the game began less than half of the seats in the sold-out house were filled and most of our friends didn't get there until halftime. After the game, it took us over three hours to get home.

So to recap: unless you are willing to drive the New Jersey Turnpike to this anti-climate change concert, you should probably leave right now to get there on time.