Parking Update
- Thread starter Nittany Security
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Realizing I can call and ask....Looking for any feedback from here. They mention the general parking selection process. Is that for all parking? I have a yellow pass and I was already assigned a yellow lot. I assumed I needed to call and whine to them to get it changed.
Makes me reminisce fondly on the days of deciding the day of to drive up for beaver stadium, park wherever I wanted for $10, buy a couple of tickets from a fan who had a couple of extras, who sold them with a smile for face value or under. Go out at halftime, grab a drink and come back in the stadium hassle free in one of 18 entrances.
Now it’s pre-buy your parking 6 months ahead of time (or pay $60 on the day of) and know exactly which road you are going to take or else you’ll be rerouted for a 2 hour loop, oh and parking may be closed (no refunds). Buy your ticket from pro scalpers for way over face and hope they haven’t been invalidated online and reissued. Get in queue for 20-45 minutes as temp workers check the size of the plastic bag you’ve brought in. There’s 4 gates and about 10 people at each (none of those people actually want to be working there, as they are brought in from different states). After the cattle prod, you are constantly being screamed at to “make some noii-oize” as the same stale soundtrack plays Saturday after Saturday. Someone can pick up where I left off. Getting too pissed.
Now it’s pre-buy your parking 6 months ahead of time (or pay $60 on the day of) and know exactly which road you are going to take or else you’ll be rerouted for a 2 hour loop, oh and parking may be closed (no refunds). Buy your ticket from pro scalpers for way over face and hope they haven’t been invalidated online and reissued. Get in queue for 20-45 minutes as temp workers check the size of the plastic bag you’ve brought in. There’s 4 gates and about 10 people at each (none of those people actually want to be working there, as they are brought in from different states). After the cattle prod, you are constantly being screamed at to “make some noii-oize” as the same stale soundtrack plays Saturday after Saturday. Someone can pick up where I left off. Getting too pissed.
yeah, one of the reasons that I don't go to near as many games as a i used to. the spontaneity of it is gone.
Was just talking about this with my wife. Every year they manage to find something else to detract from the experience.
When the wind is from the east I feel I can almost hear the soundtracked music in my recliner in the northwest suburbs of Chicagoland. It is awful!
Eating the same luke-warm-ish food from the concessions stands and knowing that they'll be out of whatever it was I wanted by the middle of the 3rd quarter.
Having to have half my butt hanging off at the end of an aisle b/c the seating hasn't kept pace with fatness of our country.
Not being able to have glass bottles of beer b/c lightweights don't know how to drink within their limits and/or know how to use trash bags.
I know I know these aren't best but it's a start. In fact I think this concept would be a good off-season thread.
It is almost like they don't want you to come, how did they mess up the parking it as been the same way for 20+ years, did i miss them expanding the stadium again. What a joke.
Who goes to beaver stadium to eat food? I eat good food at my tailgate. Maybe a hot dog or nachos at the game just because hot dogs and nachos are stadium football/baseball food. I never understood why anybody would want to pay $12 for a 'premium' cheeseburger or some other luxury type way overpriced food while watching a 3 hour football game.
Only way to keep pace with needing more space is to derate stadium capacity which is not going to happen.
Glass bottles are about banned anywhere because they break and then a car drives over and flat tires. Drink out of a can.
So I thought the original poster was real stuff. your list not so much.
You had a yellow pass, there is no such thing any longer as yellow pass or yellow lots. From what I could tell from map, info, etc. All general lots are now numbered and look like they are blue, though it seems only the lot number matters. I would call them if I were you.
If you ordered general parking passes with your 2019 Season Tickets you will be assigned a date and time to select which general lot you want to park in. Here’s a part of email was sent to out today...
You will find your general parking selection assignment above! The 2019 general parking selection will occur April 30 through May 5 at 11:59 p.m. The above time indicates the earliest time you can access the selection process. You do not have to select a lot at your assigned time, however you must select a lot before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. If you do not select a lot by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, a lot will be assigned for you, and no refund will be given. If you are attempting to purchase the same lot as another season ticket holder, you should both select your lot at the same time, at the latest date and time assigned.
You will find your general parking selection assignment above! The 2019 general parking selection will occur April 30 through May 5 at 11:59 p.m. The above time indicates the earliest time you can access the selection process. You do not have to select a lot at your assigned time, however you must select a lot before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. If you do not select a lot by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, a lot will be assigned for you, and no refund will be given. If you are attempting to purchase the same lot as another season ticket holder, you should both select your lot at the same time, at the latest date and time assigned.
Thanks for stating what I was thinking much better than I could. I was thinking all the way back to undergrad days when we would load a couple kegs into a fraternity brother's pick-up, easily drive up to the grass lot where the BJC now is, have a few beers, easily go into the stadium for the game. I don't remember if students could re-enter back then due to the punch tickets we had?! I was going to say we would leave early if it wasn't a "good" opponent, but almost every game seemed to be a "good" opponent and/or rival. We didn't want to miss tearing down the goal posts which was big in my day (81-84). So over 30 years later we have "progressed" to what we have now!
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Actually it was banned due to injuries to students and livestock who use many of the lots the other 6 days a week.
You forgot, driving up, tailgating until half time and then walking into stadium for free to watch the 2nd half.
They allow people to use charcoal at other big college tailgates.Do you think this ban maybe was a good idea for Beaver Stadium?
I've never been a fan of allowing something simply because it's allowed elsewhere. Where there is charcoal there is lighter fluid. Where there is lighter fluid there is an increased risk of accidental fire. Nobody wants that.
I've also been near tailgates where the attendees are a bunch of jackasses. They leave their trash behind for someone else to clean up. If they had charcoal grills no doubt they'd leave behind a big pile of ashes too.
I couldn't agree more.I went to a tailgate over by the law school and a bunch of wasted students put way to much fluid on a grill.It was smoking like crazy while they were playing dizzy bats and doing beer bongs.There are cameras in the lots to identify this problem,of course they were put out and people were carded for underage drinking.
The issue with charcoal is people dumping the embers.
And I usually see at least one tailgate using charcoal each game.
And I usually see at least one tailgate using charcoal each game.
This new parking policy is the perfect solution......... to no known problem.
I had a manager once who liked to use that phrase. "It's a solution looking for a problem"
Not to mention the problem of people not disposing of the charcoals properly and starting fires in trash bins. I can just imagine how many charcoal piles there would be in the IM lots.
I guess you never sat for hours trying to enter and exit the lots? Yes access was no problem for those who arrive early and stay late but for some of us who can't it was often a mess.
It is worse than that. The new parking policy creates a problem where there wasn't much of one to begin with. Put in a few competent traffic cops before and after games at key intersections and merge points directing traffic and a bulk of the problem goes away.
I can't believe I'm typing this but I actually have some sympathy for the admin here. Trying to leave via Park Ave. to the expressway was a nightmare, especially after a night game. I doesn't matter what kind of plan is in place or how good the folks are at directing traffic. The number of vehicles which can pass through in "x" number of minutes is finite regardless of all the other stuff. A lot of cars = a lot of congestion. The traffic sucks and nothing will change that except a couple more lanes being added to Park Ave. from Fox Hollow Rd. to the expressway. And that's not going to happen.
It's easy to yearn for the better traffic situation of yesteryear but back then there were also 20,000+ less people trying to get out.
Lot 11 is huge part of the problem. 3000 people with yellow passes coming from all directions to try to get into a lot that has to have less than half that. Dumbasses parking on Park Ave hours ahead of time so they can get into the lot. Plus that lot alone backs up Park and Atherton before the game.
While I do not like many aspects of plan, at least there will not be 3000 people trying to get into that because people will either have access or they won’t.
Basically get off my lawn and get the F out of my way while I try to get to my space in my lot.
While I do not like many aspects of plan, at least there will not be 3000 people trying to get into that because people will either have access or they won’t.
Basically get off my lawn and get the F out of my way while I try to get to my space in my lot.
nothing anybody can do is going to make 110,000 people get out quick. the same idiots that complain about it taking time to get out of the lots are the same idiots who complained that the lots were closed after a record rainfall.
but you don't have to pay six figures to a consultant to come up with the craziness that is now parking. put some cops at the main lots filtering traffic onto park effeciently and put some cops controlling those park avenue lights. do that and you solve some of the stupidity that is currently that is occuring. it doesn't allow everbody to be over the mountain in 15 minutes but at least gets the cars out about as fast as posible.
I believe that is for phase 2 of the selection process, ie where people who had a season yellow pass in 2018 and renewed for 2019, can buy additional season pass in phase 2
This is it. 20-30k cars trying to leave at once with most of them being forced down Park Ave. The roads just aren't meant to handle that. No amount of administrative planning will make egress any better.
And screw anyone who wont get off my lawn.....just because it used to be that way does not make the new ways better. Not all change is good.
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Word is they banned them knowing they may need to bring in PSP choppers to break up big tailgates. Impaling people with flying tents and such is fine. Burning people with hot charcoal is no bueno.
