Take Uber so you can be dropped off right in front of your destination. You won't have to worry about parking, paying the meters, or getting a DUI. My BF is an Uber driver, and you can bet there will be plenty of drivers out on Saturday to make the extra money.

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

(08-17-2017 10:56 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

But it's still one of the best Zoos in the country from a visitor's standpoint, and only 1 of 4 zoos in the United States that houses Pandas. If the Zoo hadn't "destroyed" all those trees, I'm sure there'd be some form of interstate through there!

(08-17-2017 10:56 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

More of the Greenway kooks. The area in question may be used 80 days out of the year and that is being generous. There is limited space that needs to be wisely. Of anything it is these Greenway folks who are the unfriendly neighbors. Actually spreading nails in the areas that were used for parking. Vandalizing Zoo property.

More or less the same groups which has made the majority of the park off limits. Once it was common place to go through a fast food drive through and puck up you lunch and then drive into the park away from the current public areas and enjoy a cool breeze while you eat. Now those roadways are unacceptable.

(08-15-2017 09:33 PM)JAB Wrote:  Just rent a car.

Heck, it's Memphis . . . just steal one.

(08-18-2017 10:40 AM)TigerFan38134 Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 10:56 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

But it's still one of the best Zoos in the country from a visitor's standpoint, and only 1 of 4 zoos in the United States that houses Pandas. If the Zoo hadn't "destroyed" all those trees, I'm sure there'd be some form of interstate through there!

If a visitor can look at all those miserable animals and not see what they are looking at, maybe. So, I guess you would say pandas offset the rest of the horrible conditions for the other animals, the siphoning of taxpayers' money when this city desperately needs good parks and activities for our citizens and children, employees who are not paid well and absolutely hate their psycho Zoo director, and a Zoo which has no regard for, nor appreciation of protecting a 10,000 virgin Old Forest, or a George Kessler-designed park in the middle of our city. Google Kessler. And I am not sure what you mean by the Zoo and the interstate. The Zoo has encroached on the Old Forest for years, but in the 1960's, four ladies and a few men saved Overton Park from having an interstate fun through it with a landmark Supreme Court decision. Most of the forest was still intact when the interstate was stopped. The Zoo has destroyed lots of trees within its footprint, and the City has destroyed many more on its East Parkway maintenance lot. The Old Forest is almost completely unique in this entire country for being a large virgin forest in the middle of a city; it's biodiversity is unique and irreplaceable, and is being studied.

(08-18-2017 12:58 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 10:56 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

More of the Greenway kooks. The area in question may be used 80 days out of the year and that is being generous. There is limited space that needs to be wisely. Of anything it is these Greenway folks who are the unfriendly neighbors. Actually spreading nails in the areas that were used for parking. Vandalizing Zoo property.

More or less the same groups which has made the majority of the park off limits. Once it was common place to go through a fast food drive through and puck up you lunch and then drive into the park away from the current public areas and enjoy a cool breeze while you eat. Now those roadways are unacceptable.

Hey, it's "Greensward." I won't waste my time responding to the rest of your unfounded ideas, except to say the Greensward people had almost nothing to do with closing the interior forest roads. THAT would fall on the shoulders of the Overton Park Conservancy. And no one has ever thrown nails on the Greensward. Fact

(08-18-2017 06:53 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 12:58 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 10:56 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 12:19 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 07:39 PM)mxBruin Wrote:  You folks were very kind in answering questions about visiting when UCLA is in town. I would like to ask you advice on one other issue.

Do you think we should rent a car or use Uber or Lyft to get around town? We will be staying downtown. In addition to the game, we want to hit up the museums, Beale Street, and see the pandas at the zoo. We also are going to the Fed-Ex Forum for Bruno Mars, as a birthday surprise for our daughters. Damned convenient to have the concert the same weekend.

Any opinions?

The season cannot get here soon enough, and we are REALLY looking forward to this road trip.

Thanks.

I have been to zoos all over the country and there are very few I can name that are better than the Memphis Zoo. I am so impressed and happy with the investment that has been placed on the zoo. The nocturnal exhibit is one of my favorites.

I like the nocturnal exhibit, too. But you should know that our Zoo sells old and sick hooved animals to canned hunting ranches, and has for decades. The Zoo's elephants are absolutely miserable in their concrete enclosure. The Zoo siphons money from the City budget, with almost no accountability, without being self sustaining, when our many neighborhood parks desperately need funds. Our Zoo is not a good neighbor to the other entities in the park, and has destroyed our Greensward by parking on it for years. The intent of the Zoo is to take over the entire Greensward all the way to Poplar and erect exhibits on it. The Zoo has destroyed a good part of the 17 acres of 10,000-year-old Old Forest they somehow got their hands on. And the Zoo employees are treated horribly by Chuck Brady and have very low morale.

More of the Greenway kooks. The area in question may be used 80 days out of the year and that is being generous. There is limited space that needs to be wisely. Of anything it is these Greenway folks who are the unfriendly neighbors. Actually spreading nails in the areas that were used for parking. Vandalizing Zoo property.

More or less the same groups which has made the majority of the park off limits. Once it was common place to go through a fast food drive through and puck up you lunch and then drive into the park away from the current public areas and enjoy a cool breeze while you eat. Now those roadways are unacceptable.

Hey, it's "Greensward." I won't waste my time responding to the rest of your unfounded ideas, except to say the Greensward people had almost nothing to do with closing the interior forest roads. THAT would fall on the shoulders of the Overton Park Conservancy. And no one has ever thrown nails on the Greensward. Fact

This individual group of people maybe not, but the same mindset of people who did not want their private recreation area disturbed by moving cars. An earlier group of hippy/yuppie entitled individuals.

One of the top tourist attractions in Memphis should be hindered and parking restricted so a few entitled individuals could have their private recreation area which brings in ZERO dollars to the city. When with in 1-2 miles there is massive amounts of greenland which these entitled individual could use.

The entire reason to save the park from I-40 was so the people could have access to it. Now 80% of it is unreachable by vehicle. And only a damn fool would walk that area. Used to have to carry a ball bat going between holes 2 and 3.

Noticed you didn't bother discussing the spreading of nails in the parking area or the destruction and vandalizing of Zoo property.