re: New For 2014: Football GameDay Traffic, Parking

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E-MAIL: parking@lsu.edu

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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.

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