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and traffic gets worse. CATS slashes gameday shuttle service
Posted on 8/28/14 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 8/28/14 at 8:58 pm
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU Tiger fans are going to find it a lot harder to catch a shuttle bus to Tiger Stadium this football season.
The Captial Area Transit System (CATS) is limiting its Touchdown Express tickets to 1,000 per game. CATS sold, on average, 7,300 per game last football season.
CATS Chief Executive Officer Bob Mirabito said the change stems from some changes LSU made to its campus on game day, specifically converting Nicholson Drive and Tiger Stadium Drive to a pedestrian area. That was the spot the buses would drop off and pick up passengers.
Mirabito said CATS will roll 20 buses per game. The buses will begin picking up passengers three hours before the game and continue until kickoff. However, traffic contra flow will only allow the shuttles to make one trip from Tiger Stadium after the games.
"If we sell out the first couple of games that will be great for CATS and our customers, but that tells me that come Ole Miss and Alabama games there's going to be a lot more demand than there will be tickets," Mirabito said.
Roundtrip tickets are $10 per game. Passengers can buy a seven game packet for $60. Touchdown Express tickets will be available online until October. They are now available for purchase at the CATS terminal on Florida Boulevard. You may also buy them at any shuttle pick up location on game day.
Those include Hotel Indigo, Hollywood Casino Hotel, L'Auberge Casino, and at the I-110 and Florida Boulevard overpass.
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU Tiger fans are going to find it a lot harder to catch a shuttle bus to Tiger Stadium this football season.
The Captial Area Transit System (CATS) is limiting its Touchdown Express tickets to 1,000 per game. CATS sold, on average, 7,300 per game last football season.
CATS Chief Executive Officer Bob Mirabito said the change stems from some changes LSU made to its campus on game day, specifically converting Nicholson Drive and Tiger Stadium Drive to a pedestrian area. That was the spot the buses would drop off and pick up passengers.
Mirabito said CATS will roll 20 buses per game. The buses will begin picking up passengers three hours before the game and continue until kickoff. However, traffic contra flow will only allow the shuttles to make one trip from Tiger Stadium after the games.
"If we sell out the first couple of games that will be great for CATS and our customers, but that tells me that come Ole Miss and Alabama games there's going to be a lot more demand than there will be tickets," Mirabito said.
Roundtrip tickets are $10 per game. Passengers can buy a seven game packet for $60. Touchdown Express tickets will be available online until October. They are now available for purchase at the CATS terminal on Florida Boulevard. You may also buy them at any shuttle pick up location on game day.
Those include Hotel Indigo, Hollywood Casino Hotel, L'Auberge Casino, and at the I-110 and Florida Boulevard overpass.
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Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:00 pm to LSUMJ
So less parking, less mass transit and more people will be in the stadium? This is goin to be great.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:02 pm to LSUMJ
They have made it harder and harder to park. At times it seems like zero common sense is being used.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:05 pm to LSUMJ
If only they had gotten that big tax increase...oh, wait...
They need to save their money to fund the dozens of buses that ply Bluebonnet daily with 1-2 riders on each bus. Hollywood stars don't ride in style like those few folks do.
They need to save their money to fund the dozens of buses that ply Bluebonnet daily with 1-2 riders on each bus. Hollywood stars don't ride in style like those few folks do.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:07 pm to LSUMJ
Thank god for uber
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:09 pm to LSUMJ
Sounds like a good move.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:16 pm to LSUMJ
And they wonder why attendance is going down.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:25 pm to LSUMJ
and they wonder why less people are going to the games
Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:38 pm to LSUMJ
But we paid millions to a consultant to tell us to go back to the Skip Bertman years plan. Then closed down a major road because of all the deaths.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 10:04 pm to LSUMJ
I road CATS all last season. Limiting it to just 1,000 is a disaster. If anything there needs to be more buses not less. LSU is gonna take some heat on this and they deserve it. I always thought it would be a good idea to give a string of buses a police escort getting more people to the game quicker and more efficient.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 10:24 pm to LSUMJ
It's to the point where if you aren't on campus by 10 am for a night game, then you're basically gonna hang out in traffic til kickoff.
Don't even get me started on the 11 am games.
Don't even get me started on the 11 am games.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 11:13 pm to LSUMJ
They simply do not care. They will never care. They have the money and Alleva will never be affected, not Miles or any other high-level person, so we just have to deal with the embarrassment.
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