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re: Solution to traffic, parking and early leaves at Tiger Stadium
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:38 am to southendzoneresident
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:38 am to southendzoneresident
I don't want to get carjacked leaving Cortana after a night game.
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Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:09 am to Cold Drink
When you're going West leaving an LSU game, you're going away from the nightmare. Of course it's easy for you. You're avoiding the cluster. Those of us who aren't going west (probably 70% of the crowd) - have to deal with the cluster.
quote:This. If your car is even still there when you get back.
I sure as shite would never wait to load up on a bus to drop me to and from Cortana mall.
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:17 am to notiger1997
At most every away game I have attended, I have taken a shuttle bus to the stadium. Super convenient, cheap, and helped out this fool so that I wouldn't be driving around in circles, not knowing where in the world I was going, looking for a place to park.
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:23 am to southendzoneresident
Here's the answer to the traffic problems, and people will hate it:
Only use the biggest lots on campus for any football game parking, that means the big one by TS, touchdown village, possibly Ag center, hayfield, leave all of the smaller lots closed and don't offer parking there at all --- which means prices will be jacked up for the closest lots to the stadium but thats the tradeoff.
Traffic congestion comes from everyone and their friend parking in their eighth cousins' grandmas yard and trying to leave campus at once, if there are only a few main lots open alot of that is relieved plus more tailgating real estate is open. The trick then is how to get people to the game and where everyone else should park, and that's where your idea comes in. Either build a new lot further from the stadium but easily accessible to the interstate (I'm not sure where that location is) or find one and efficiently shuttle people back and fourth before and after the game. If that can be done, traffic is spread over the city and isn't all jammed to a few tiny roads.
The congestion isn't due to sheer numbers, its because everyone is packed together and there are only so many ways out. If every building on campus didn't sell their 25 spots, there would not be nearly as many problems. I'm just not sure this type of infrastructure or planning exists or is possible.
Joe, if you're reading this, you're welcome.
Only use the biggest lots on campus for any football game parking, that means the big one by TS, touchdown village, possibly Ag center, hayfield, leave all of the smaller lots closed and don't offer parking there at all --- which means prices will be jacked up for the closest lots to the stadium but thats the tradeoff.
Traffic congestion comes from everyone and their friend parking in their eighth cousins' grandmas yard and trying to leave campus at once, if there are only a few main lots open alot of that is relieved plus more tailgating real estate is open. The trick then is how to get people to the game and where everyone else should park, and that's where your idea comes in. Either build a new lot further from the stadium but easily accessible to the interstate (I'm not sure where that location is) or find one and efficiently shuttle people back and fourth before and after the game. If that can be done, traffic is spread over the city and isn't all jammed to a few tiny roads.
The congestion isn't due to sheer numbers, its because everyone is packed together and there are only so many ways out. If every building on campus didn't sell their 25 spots, there would not be nearly as many problems. I'm just not sure this type of infrastructure or planning exists or is possible.
Joe, if you're reading this, you're welcome.
This post was edited on 12/7/17 at 9:25 am
Posted on 12/7/17 at 10:00 am to BigOrangeWave
The problem with traffic from 2007 (when we started seeing 100,000 people tailgating on campus in addition to the other 90,000 people going to the game) is that there is no plan.
The plan changes from week to week. What you did last week to park, and how the cones were set up on the street, and how the cops were directing traffic to flow - changed this week. It's been the one gripe I've had.
You never can get used to a way that it happens. People are going to learn from their mistakes and make sure they don't leave being in a certain lane or going in a certain direction. But then you try to learn from your mistake and go a different way, and you get fricked the next week.
STOP changing it up! QUIT making it up as you go along. Come up with a plan, and stick to it. And when I mean a plan, have it detailed as to times and lanes blocked off, etc. Don't just come up with streets and direction of flow.
This is why it's a total clusterfrick getting out every week. It's not just the number of people. It's the number of people who collectively do not know what to do because it fricking changes week to week.
Hell, some weeks there's nobody out there directing traffic at all.
And finally, there should be no lights operating normally for four hours before the game and four hours after - on a route from/to I-10. This means that if you need to take Perkins and cross over College or Acadian, find a different way. Because those lights should be blinking yellow from Highland/Nicholson all the way down to the interstate.
The plan changes from week to week. What you did last week to park, and how the cones were set up on the street, and how the cops were directing traffic to flow - changed this week. It's been the one gripe I've had.
You never can get used to a way that it happens. People are going to learn from their mistakes and make sure they don't leave being in a certain lane or going in a certain direction. But then you try to learn from your mistake and go a different way, and you get fricked the next week.
STOP changing it up! QUIT making it up as you go along. Come up with a plan, and stick to it. And when I mean a plan, have it detailed as to times and lanes blocked off, etc. Don't just come up with streets and direction of flow.
This is why it's a total clusterfrick getting out every week. It's not just the number of people. It's the number of people who collectively do not know what to do because it fricking changes week to week.
Hell, some weeks there's nobody out there directing traffic at all.
And finally, there should be no lights operating normally for four hours before the game and four hours after - on a route from/to I-10. This means that if you need to take Perkins and cross over College or Acadian, find a different way. Because those lights should be blinking yellow from Highland/Nicholson all the way down to the interstate.
Posted on 12/7/17 at 10:51 am to southendzoneresident
Terrible idea
Posted on 12/7/17 at 2:43 pm to southendzoneresident
The big solution for filling in seats (at least in lower bowl) is for season ticket holders to loose seat priority for not using tickets. All these people have to do is give them to someone who will use them.
As for the traffic... win more and people will come and stay. I went to Bama game in Tusc this year and their post game traffic was as bad as ours if not worse but everybody stayed. Maybe they are just afraid of Saban's rath...
As for the traffic... win more and people will come and stay. I went to Bama game in Tusc this year and their post game traffic was as bad as ours if not worse but everybody stayed. Maybe they are just afraid of Saban's rath...
This post was edited on 12/7/17 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 12/7/17 at 2:44 pm to southendzoneresident
Posted on 12/7/17 at 2:49 pm to southendzoneresident
quote:
Not that far and that's part of the solution. It puts those people who choose to do it far away from the TS traffic with multiple routes home.
I think you're confusing Cortana with Mall of Louisiana
Posted on 12/7/17 at 3:00 pm to southendzoneresident
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Has LSU ever considered using a shuttle service from Cortana mall utilizing their huge empty parking lot and shuttling people to Tiger Stadium
Posted on 12/7/17 at 3:05 pm to southendzoneresident
You want to give priority to people that leave on the bus while others pay to park on campus annually for the games?? That won’t fly
Posted on 12/7/17 at 4:40 pm to southendzoneresident
the biggest problem is the stupid arse BR police who do not know how to direct traffic.Need to pay a professional nationally recognized traffic control engineer to study traffic flow/ access to road ways and treach the BR HOW TO.
Insanity is doing the stupid over and over and that is what LSU traffic is
Insanity is doing the stupid over and over and that is what LSU traffic is
Posted on 12/7/17 at 6:28 pm to southendzoneresident
The gov is building a tram from downtown to LSU - I all about the Tram Train.....2025???
Posted on 12/7/17 at 6:48 pm to DaBeerz
quote:
Nobody wants to park at Cortana at night
Nobody wants to park at Cortana at anytime!
Posted on 12/7/17 at 7:23 pm to southendzoneresident
The shuttle bus from the Mall in Tuscaloosa to the Stadium was awesome despite being the only people in purple and gold.
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:02 pm to southendzoneresident
Ole Miss uses Oxford HS near campus.
$20
$40 Priority Bus
Buses run every 15 minutes and it's a fundraiser for school.
Something like that would help
$20
$40 Priority Bus
Buses run every 15 minutes and it's a fundraiser for school.
Something like that would help
Posted on 12/7/17 at 8:55 pm to southendzoneresident
Do you want crime to go up 17%, because that's how crime goes up.
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:10 pm to southendzoneresident
Traffic circle aka Roundabout around Tiger Stadium
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:22 pm to southendzoneresident
Like the hill at Syracuse. Odd but does push traffic off campus
Posted on 12/7/17 at 9:42 pm to southendzoneresident
At the rate Amazon is shutting down malls, the Mall of LA will soon be a ghost town and they could shuttle fans there.
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