Yeah, keep your paved spot...
They can't get it out out of their mind.
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I agree with this, and in my small circle over the years we've come to just about the same conclusions. Of course, no Haunted Forest for MBB.
Why make excuses for why it won't work? Why not encourage the adoption rather than (not you, the ticket office/athletics) tell me how what I've brought up is the same as they've heard from many others and what they talk about, apparently for years on end?
Again, I go back to the need for consistency. If the same is expected of everyone, that is what will happen. When you open it up or allow exceptions, it won't work.
You do need a lot of manpower to do something like that. Especially if you don't want cars going into Greek land to turn back on LW east at Buchanan...Or someone turning off LW west at the MU to go back east.
You also aren't in a vacuum...there are other non game day related users. I can see the emergency services people not being terribly impressed by that plan.
You would also need to be able to get the City of Ames on board and they forgot without Iowa State Ames is absolutely nothing.
That's not bad advice, however consider the choice.
I put stupid money on it ($599) on StubHub for lot C1/C2. I was shocked when it sold so happy to pivot over to grass for this one game. Looking at it from the reverse perspective, someone paid me net $500 to park grass instead of paved.
And, if I arrive after noon as planned and the grass is full despite having a parking pass or a cluster F of an experience, I still will have no regrets
Mostly because you'd need buy-in from the City of Ames, multiple law enforcement agencies, and possibly the DOT (depending on which roads you're including).
Frankly, I'd cite RAGBRAI as precedent. Shutting down or altering vehicle access to multiple "main" roads for two days was okay, so doing the same for a 2-hour period six times per year should be also.
question for anyone who parked in VetMed-
Can you only enter from the west on S 16th and turn right into the lot? Thought I read that somewhere. What about leaving? Only one way out?
Can you only enter from the west on S 16th and turn right into the lot? Thought I read that somewhere. What about leaving? Only one way out?
That was the case getting out, for sure. As for getting in, I'm less certain. We arrived around 9:15 coming in from the west, anticipating right-turn only. Traffic wasn't heavy then so perhaps they'd have let you turn left from the east. Not sure I'd chance it, though.
I liked G7 for the relaxed environment, but I'm guessing it's problem is the same as the other grass lots. You are shown which row to park but not how to park. Meaning that many people take 1.5 to 2 parking spaces with the gaps they leave. Some would do it and throw up tents in the spots and leave them for afterwards. Showing up later to G7 many times meant you had no parking spot.
It wasn't great, but it probably took me as long to get from my parking spot in Vet Med to the intersection at S. 16th, a distance of about 300 yards, as it did to get from that point to Highway 30, another mile and a half away.
I considered turning north on Grand and going up to 13th St to catch I-35, but in looking at traffic on Google Maps I didn't figure there would be any time savings. By the time you hit Grand you're most of the way through the traffic.
The interesting part about these instructions is that (unless I'm mistaken) they only go to season ticket holders. So the single ticket buyers and the secondary & transfer tickets don't get this, right? That's a helluva lot of people who won't know the "rules".
The biggest parking problem previously with MBB is the A. D. Refusal to utilize existing space, acres of parking go to waste because people aren't the right donor level.
Pushing parking S of the FB stadium while a giant swath of the center went unused was just mean.
If we would just go back to sucking at football, all of these traffic issues would be alleviated.
