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re: "We got this one in the bag so let's leave and beat traffic..."
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:30 am to Tdubs7
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:30 am to Tdubs7
Geography will always cause traffic issues post-LSU game, but there are a few things LSU and the local authorities could do to improve the current situation:
1. After each home game this year, my path home has had a different traffic "strategy." That does not allow people to plan their exit correctly.
2. Incentivize off-site parking.
3. Tied to #1, but do a better job of communicating where your parking lot flows after the game.
4. Commit to contraflow. It seemed like they had this down for a while, but I see them increasingly abandoning it. You don't even have to do it for a long time after a game. An hour tops. The people it accommodates far outweigh the folks it screws.
5. Light control needs to extend further out. For example, the light at Burbank and Staring was on its regular light cycle post-game. That's retarded.
1. After each home game this year, my path home has had a different traffic "strategy." That does not allow people to plan their exit correctly.
2. Incentivize off-site parking.
3. Tied to #1, but do a better job of communicating where your parking lot flows after the game.
4. Commit to contraflow. It seemed like they had this down for a while, but I see them increasingly abandoning it. You don't even have to do it for a long time after a game. An hour tops. The people it accommodates far outweigh the folks it screws.
5. Light control needs to extend further out. For example, the light at Burbank and Staring was on its regular light cycle post-game. That's retarded.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 9:31 am
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Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:34 am to Tdubs7
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:35 am to High Life
“So you're telling us, you go to every single home game and stay for every single second every single week?? If not then you should probably stfu. If you do then you should probably pick up another hobby, because i'm not sure thats healthy.”
I do this.. please explain to me why this is not healthy.. I try to stay healthy .
I do this.. please explain to me why this is not healthy.. I try to stay healthy .
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:36 am to Tdubs7
All these threads about the poor attendance in TS is just beating a dead horse. We are now into at least a second decade of fans leaving early & by now, these generations of fans don't know any other TS game experience. The fans at mid field started leaving a long time ago; now, it's those fans' "kids" who are using those seats & it's all they know . Add in the cost for a family of four to attend games & this disease has spread to the upper decks. Student tickets are cheap but they seem to enjoy partying / tailgating more now.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:39 am to Tdubs7
I hate seeing how empty the stadium looks. My family and I had season tickets for years. Sometimes we would take the bus shuttle from downtown. Geaux Tigers!
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:39 am to Keltic Tiger
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Student tickets are cheap but they seem to enjoy partying / tailgating more now.
What do you mean now? My freshman year was 2003, and we students definitely left blowout games early all throughout my time as a student. It's also not only something that happens here. It is a universal issue. HDTVs and all games being on TV fundamentally changed how fans act. It will never go back to how it was.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:41 am to Hurricane2020
Too close to the river; traffic cannot fan out in four directions like many other stadiums.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:43 am to Tdubs7
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Some will say it's the traffic, but BR's post-game traffic is NO worse than other stadiums. Still don't get it.
You are completely high. I was at USCe for the game, and from game end to on the interstate took me 35 minutes, most of which was the 0.8 mile walk.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:46 am to Tdubs7
I got season tickets the year they fired Dinardo and hired Saban. I knew ever fan that was sitting around me for at least the next 5 years. Once TAF was the norm, I started to see the everyday LSU fan giving up tickets and more and more corporations were buying the seats around us. By 2010, I had new fans sitting next to me every week. It got to the point where the new folks each week were always sitting in the wrong seats. Arguing with long standing season tickets holders about the seats and then after almost missing the first quarter over people being in the wrong seats they would take their selfie and leave.
Around 2014 my kids started playing pee-wee football so we went to the games that didn't conflict with their games. After sitting at home and watching a few games without the hassle of parking on campus, setting up and taking down tailgates, I said "F" it and I started selling my tickets. Did that for a few years and then decided to just give them up.
Tiger Stadium in the 80s was so much fun. 90s sucked except for a few Dinardo years. Saban is the one who made LSU games great. Miles kept it going into mid-2010. I am to a point in my life where I would rather watch the games from the house.
Around 2014 my kids started playing pee-wee football so we went to the games that didn't conflict with their games. After sitting at home and watching a few games without the hassle of parking on campus, setting up and taking down tailgates, I said "F" it and I started selling my tickets. Did that for a few years and then decided to just give them up.
Tiger Stadium in the 80s was so much fun. 90s sucked except for a few Dinardo years. Saban is the one who made LSU games great. Miles kept it going into mid-2010. I am to a point in my life where I would rather watch the games from the house.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 9:49 am
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:48 am to Tdubs7
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Thought this was all stadiums years ago, but decades later after having the chance to attend games a dozens of other stadiums you don't see it nearly as bad as LSU?
How many other stadiums have you visited when the home team is playing an out of conference cup cake where the victory was never in doubt after the kickoff.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:55 am to Tdubs7
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Dude, STFU. Did I say I go to every game or stay until the last second? Did I say one group of fans is better than the other? Fans leaving in the 3rd quarter are the norm and just asking why.
Its not an lsu problem bud. We are typically top 5 in the country in avg attendance. Football is entertainment. People will leave when they're no longer being entertained.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:01 am to Hurricane2020
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Lsu post game traffic is much worse than most stadium traffic. Tiger stadium is way too big for baton rouge's infrastructure, it's also too far from the interstate.
Plan better, it’s simple
Why go to leave early, makes NO sense
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:01 am to lsusteve1
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Plan better, it’s simple
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Tough to plan when they change the plan every week, huh?
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:04 am to BEATbama05
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One way to help traffic that is not being done is to have parking lots in multiple locations, and bus a mass amount of people in and out far past the pinch points to have many less cars on campus.
This. We did this in Oxford last year. Granted we were away fans so it’s not like we were setting up a tailgate, but it was so easy getting to and leaving campus
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:06 am to Tdubs7
The difference between entertainment and school spirit is that when games are no longer entertaining people seek to do something they find more important. Be glad they purchased the ticket and are supporting the school financially with their entertainment dollars.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:07 am to Hurricane2020
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Tiger stadium is way too big for baton rouge's infrastructure, it's also too far from the interstate.
It also has a giant river blocking half of directional traffic.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:10 am to Midtiger farm
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not really
Oxford and Tuscaloosa are gridlocked after games if you are trying to leave from inside of campus
But neither stadium has a two-lane road on the side of a levee as one of the main departure routes.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:13 am to LNCHBOX
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Tough to plan when they change the plan every week, huh?
Not really
Hang at a tailgate after the game or something. I’ve never sat in TS traffic for hours
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:14 am to lowhound
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are a cluster to get out of. I sure as hell don't want to go to a bar just off the gates of campus, win or lose, and try to start drinking with a bunch of frat boys after a game. That's a good way to get an arse kicking.
This fricking stupid
You can walk to bars at every sec town from the stadium at any age as a visiting fan and not have to worry one bit about getting in a fight
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:14 am to lsusteve1
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Hang at a tailgate after the game or something.
Choosing to stay on campus hours after the game doesn't mean the traffic doesn't exist
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I’ve never sat in TS traffic for hours
Sure you have, you just don't admit it.
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