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re: New For 2014: Football GameDay Traffic, Parking
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:32 pm to wallowinit
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:32 pm to wallowinit
Yeah I'm not really sure how you can go northbound anymore. If you were to leave after the game i would guess you have to go south to bluebonnet and get on i10 from bluebonnet.
which im sure you dont want to do.
which im sure you dont want to do.
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Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:32 pm to wallowinit
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and who have always gone north on Nicholson to the Bridge are now facing 1-1/2 to 2 hours to get on the Westside when it has been as little as 20 minutes.
Yeah. Those going westbound are definitely getting screwed unless you happened to park north of the stadium. Where there is no parking.
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Guess who'll be joining the ranks of those leaving early?
No shite. This parking mess is going to increase the amount of those who leave early. This was not thought out very well.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:53 pm to ATL-TIGER-732
So i sent the LSU parking department a long email about this. Here is there email, please voice your concerns.
Here's what i sent.
and #3 i added ATL-TIGER-732 post
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E-MAIL: parking@lsu.edu
Here's what i sent.
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Hello,
I am emailing you in regards to the new 2014 parking plan for LSU football games. I assume this email will go to a junk folder, and will go largely unnoticed, but i'll write it anyway.
For many years the areas along Nicholson, prior to football games, have become a true tailgating experience to behold. Whether on the east or west of Nicholson Drive, a multitude of diverse tiger fans have joined together to enjoy the fine food, and tailgate atmosphere that LSU is known nationwide for.
However, this tradition is now in danger due to the new football day planning program. I do not believe that whoever designed this program, put any thought to the impact to the fans and visitors this will cause. It is being touted as "solving the traffic issue" but it destroys the gameday atmosphere. I submit to you these points.
1) Anyone that decides to still tailgate off of nicholson, will be unable to reach there tailgate spots to pick up equipment and clean up due to the contraflow. If you look at the new map, people who tailgate south of south stadium drive will not be able to drive their vehicles up to pick up their equipment. Skip Bertman drive diverts all traffic to the Levee Rd. Gourrier from pay lot 409 to Nicholson is one way, yet going North to that tailgate area is inaccessible due to all lanes going south due to Contra flow.
The only conceivable way, for a tailgater in the Nicholson area south of skip bertman drive to make it back to his tailgate spot during contra flow is if that person is parked on campus from south stadium drive, or is parked in the reserved 107 lots, and that, with 100% certainty, will never be the case.
2) If you are a tiger fan, and you park in any lot South of the stadium, yet you head westbound over the I-10 bridge to get home, your drive now went from 20 minutes to nearly an hour and a half or more, depending on how bad traffic is. Typically it would take about 20 minutes to reach the bridge if you are heading North on Nicholson. Since all of Nicholson is now contra flow, that option is now eliminated. Those fans must now take bluebonnet to I-10, which adds unnecessary mileage and time to Westbound I10 drivers.
and #3 i added ATL-TIGER-732 post
This post was edited on 8/7/14 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:03 pm to Keltic Tiger
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As for any safety issues with the parking on Nicholoson & Burbank, I do not remember any articles in the paper about anyone getting run over in those areas, going back decades. And there are no more people walking the roads in that area than anyhwhere else on campus post game. Strictly a ploy to make more money under the guise of making things better for the fans. That area is going to be a cluster frick
If anything, i see it being more dangerous on burbank after the games. Just think of all the people that walk that way and over to walk ons and those areas. Now they get to deal with faster traffic.
Drunk people + fast traffic = disaster.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:16 pm to BugAC
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Drunk people + fast traffic = disaster.
hopefully people don't get hurt and the police are monitoring this, but i'm afraid you're exactly right.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:20 pm to BugAC
if all the groups along the "no tailgate zone" move to the old back 9, driving range and levee lots, they will displace all those people. this is not a very smart plan. I for one may just throw in the towel. F Aleva and his kronnies.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:32 pm to chackbay
Moscona talking about it now.
This post was edited on 8/7/14 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:41 pm to BugAC
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Moscona talking about it now.
cliffs?
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:42 pm to chackbay
Having come from out of state to watch the Tigers play home games, I've walked across campus and saw the parking, tailgating outside the stadium. And I have to admit, I don't get it. Why didn't the school build a parking ramp, or two, instead of adding seats to Tiger stadium. I personally think the administration is a little out of touch with the reality the average fan faces. Fans want to enjoy themselves on gameday, not survive it. 
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:42 pm to T
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Then you have to pay the $40 to park in the never used spots inside campus.
You know why they are never used? It's not bec they are $40. That's not bad at all if you have somebody riding with you splitting it. What's bad is trying to get out of there after the game. I parked in the deck behind the Union last year. Never again. You think the levee lots and Nicholson were bad? Brah.....Not even close.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 3:44 pm to Signal Soldier
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cliffs?
He just reiterated what we are saying here. You basically solve one problem by creating another. Going to piss off a bunch of people. And where do those cars go, that line nicholson past brightside for the big games?
Posted on 8/7/14 at 4:26 pm to BugAC
Did they turn the LSU golf course driving range into a parking lot? Because according to that map on page 1, it sure as hell is one. They also claim to have 700 "new" spots available there. The only way that is possible is if they made the driving range a parking lot.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 4:59 pm to wallowinit
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frick THIS shite!! Those of us who have to go westbound across the I-10 Bridge to get home after the games and who have parking passes south of the stadium and who have always gone north on Nicholson to the Bridge are now facing 1-1/2 to 2 hours to get on the Westside when it has been as little as 20 minutes.
Unless someone can show me otherwise we're frickED!!
Guess who'll be joining the ranks of those leaving early?
And that is thousands of people that this is affecting in this way. frick THIS shite!!!
I park south of the stadium and go westbound on I-10 to get home. There are other ways of getting to I-10W than going down Nicholson; I've been doing it for several years, and it's never taken more than 30 minutes or so to get to the bridge, often much less. If you know how to read a map, you can figure it out.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 5:00 pm to monsterballads
Great way to solve the parking problem. Eliminate hundreds of free parking places on Nicholson. They would charge money to breathe the air on campus if they could. 
Posted on 8/7/14 at 6:23 pm to geauxpurple
So LSU is claiming this as a safety issue? We'll have more and more fans trying to cross Nicholson, very few will actually cross at the traffic lights. I see countless people darting in front of cars, cars slamming on brakes, creating accidents and more traffic jams.
LSU had some very close calls during baseball season and a few people hit over the years.
LSU had some very close calls during baseball season and a few people hit over the years.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 6:29 pm to Golfer
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Never really understood why people setup along Nicholson with all the traffic, uneven and wet ground, and having to put out your gear every Wednesday. But to each his own.
I have tailgates where you tailgate, and I have tailgated off Nicholson. I will take Nicholson every time
Posted on 8/7/14 at 7:17 pm to bee Rye
I get there early enough to park at Kirby Smith for free
Posted on 8/7/14 at 8:54 pm to BugAC
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Really, the only people that will tailgate there, are those that pick up and leave before the game starts.
I don't want those people there anyway.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 7:26 am to bbap
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Well everyone has an opinion I suppose
There will never be a solution where everyone is happy.
Never.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 7:51 am to RummelTiger
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