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PurpleFaze

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Anybody with season tickets heard when they will be selling season parking? Kind of getting down to the wire here
 
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lunker35

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Anyone not using their tickets for tomorrow? Might bring the whole family so would be looking for 1-2 more depending on if my wife wants to watch two hours of Bravo without us.
 
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hdhntr1

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EagerFan said:
Parking will be a nightmare once we get into the conference games.
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Why? There are about 2400 parking spaces (if Isabella is included) for a 6500 seat stadium. And that does not include the Medical garage, Traffic patterns to get to the lots can be an issue but they always were. Some of the new rerouting can make things more difficult to get in and out.

Compare that with FB where they have the same number of spots for a 35K stadium, No where near the issue for BB
 
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EagerFan

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its_the_sauce said:
Curious, why would you say that? With the return of the east lot there's more parking than there's been the last couple years. They could even make use of Isabella lot if needed (which I doubt)
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hdhntr1 said:
Why? There are about 2400 parking spaces (if Isabella is included) for a 6500 seat stadium. And that does not include the Medical garage, Traffic patterns to get to the lots can be an issue but they always were. Some of the new rerouting can make things more difficult to get in and out.

Compare that with FB where they have the same number of spots for a 35K stadium, No where near the issue for BB
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I must have posted this complaint in a few other threads, but I'll give it another go and I do hope I'm wrong about it and I simply lack the imagination to see how it's going to work.

The current setup they used this week is - Close all access from Isabella to Ashland. Ashland is one way only from Central going north.

This effectively funnels all westbound traffic down Central and pushes all the traffic that used to come down Isabella onto Central and Green Bay - Green Bay does not have a protected left onto Central, so drivers have to wait on traffic to make that turn. The distance from Green Bay to Ashland isn't long enough to hold the traffic that will stack up for conference games, so that back up is going to stack up on Green Bay.

The west lot is now designated as Gold (Platinum) pass for the south entrance and purple for the north entrance. So purple parking passes will also have to get past the south entrance traffic and the pedestrian crossings and buses, to get into the line for that part of the lot.

This probably won't be super bad for the weekend games, but the weekday evening games will add rush hour traffic into that mix. I'm thinking the Indiana, UCLA, MSU will be extra sucky. I wonder if they'll oversell parking passes again this year, but hopefully if you get to the lot you'll be able to park.

After the game, they close access to all streets north of Isabella and close Isabella westbound, funneling all traffic to either loop around the stadium on narrow Ashbury back to Central, or out to Ridge. You have to go east to go west.
 
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