Great suggestions for traffic flow and much needed. It is a fiasco.
And to the number of fans there last night, I don't know what was announced, but I did experience the non-scanned ticket problem last night. The lady in front of me had 5 people with her party and only her ticket would scan of her printed at home tix, so the ticket scanner waived them all through. Same for my party. Mine was not a printout, but an actual season ticket, so not the quality of the printed barcode. But she tried mine about 2-3 times and I could see her screen never scanned it, then she waived through my party of 3 and acted like she was scanning the people I was with.

(09-27-2019 04:34 PM)T1G3R Wrote:  Great suggestions for traffic flow and much needed. It is a fiasco.
And to the number of fans there last night, I don't know what was announced, but I did experience the non-scanned ticket problem last night. The lady in front of me had 5 people with her party and only her ticket would scan of her printed at home tix, so the ticket scanner waived them all through. Same for my party. Mine was not a printout, but an actual season ticket, so not the quality of the printed barcode. But she tried mine about 2-3 times and I could see her screen never scanned it, then she waived through my party of 3 and acted like she was scanning the people I was with.

What gate#?

I find it quite easy to get to my blue lot spot each game and I’ve gotten there as early as 3/4 hours before and as late as an hour or so(yesterday). It would be a disaster if they didn’t have someone directing traffic coming into blue lot from Central though so no complaints overall.

For years, I would park in the handicap lot even though I would buy a blue lot spot. I did this because I have a handicap placard and have a legitimate disability. I gave up my season tickets after 20 years, 2 years ago because I and my wife could just not handle the 95 degree games in Sept., the rain games in tropical storms and the 20 degree games in Nov. Just too much easier to sit at home and watch on TV. No $8 beers, $8 hamburgers or bbq nachos or $4 bottles of water. No pee on the toilet seats. When we were going, when I attended games, we got there at least an hour before tipoff, simple tailgate before the game, and walked in before the Tiger march around the field, we would wait for about 30 minutes after the end of the game in the car, listening to the radio, and then exit the handicap lot, and leave the area via an outlet that was on Central between Hollywood and what ever the main entrance off of Central across from CBU. Never a big problem.
I've been a fan of the Tigers since my daddy took me to games in Crump Stadium in '65 when I was 10 years old. Never wanted to go any where else, graduated in '78. The Tigers are my team and will always be. If it pains you to go to the game, stay home. If you are young and can endure, then be thankful you have that option. Some of us can't do it anymore, despite the fact that we wish we could.

(09-27-2019 10:49 PM)mapdude Wrote:  For years, I would park in the handicap lot even though I would buy a blue lot spot. I did this because I have a handicap placard and have a legitimate disability. I gave up my season tickets after 20 years, 2 years ago because I and my wife could just not handle the 95 degree games in Sept., the rain games in tropical storms and the 20 degree games in Nov. Just too much easier to sit at home and watch on TV. No $8 beers, $8 hamburgers or bbq nachos or $4 bottles of water. No pee on the toilet seats. When we were going, when I attended games, we got there at least an hour before tipoff, simple tailgate before the game, and walked in before the Tiger march around the field, we would wait for about 30 minutes after the end of the game in the car, listening to the radio, and then exit the handicap lot, and leave the area via an outlet that was on Central between Hollywood and what ever the main entrance off of Central across from CBU. Never a big problem.
I've been a fan of the Tigers since my daddy took me to games in Crump Stadium in '65 when I was 10 years old. Never wanted to go any where else, graduated in '78. The Tigers are my team and will always be. If it pains you to go to the game, stay home. If you are young and can endure, then be thankful you have that option. Some of us can't do it anymore, despite the fact that we wish we could.

Some of you folks need to attend a sporting event with a large crowd in another city to gain a little perspective.

(09-27-2019 10:49 PM)mapdude Wrote:  For years, I would park in the handicap lot even though I would buy a blue lot spot. I did this because I have a handicap placard and have a legitimate disability. I gave up my season tickets after 20 years, 2 years ago because I and my wife could just not handle the 95 degree games in Sept., the rain games in tropical storms and the 20 degree games in Nov. Just too much easier to sit at home and watch on TV. No $8 beers, $8 hamburgers or bbq nachos or $4 bottles of water. No pee on the toilet seats. When we were going, when I attended games, we got there at least an hour before tipoff, simple tailgate before the game, and walked in before the Tiger march around the field, we would wait for about 30 minutes after the end of the game in the car, listening to the radio, and then exit the handicap lot, and leave the area via an outlet that was on Central between Hollywood and what ever the main entrance off of Central across from CBU. Never a big problem.
I've been a fan of the Tigers since my daddy took me to games in Crump Stadium in '65 when I was 10 years old. Never wanted to go any where else, graduated in '78. The Tigers are my team and will always be. If it pains you to go to the game, stay home. If you are young and can endure, then be thankful you have that option. Some of us can't do it anymore, despite the fact that we wish we could.

I hear ya bro. I have a similar story.

(09-28-2019 05:38 AM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  Some of you folks need to attend a sporting event with a large crowd in another city to gain a little perspective.

Some of us have. I can tell you Memphis is one of the worst (Birmingham is the absolute worst this is not good company) Mayor Strickland prides himself on doing the little things well. He could change this dynamic by hiring a professional to devise better schemes. What i do know is the most important thing is to get cars out of the fairgrounds and moving away from the area. That means directing them onto roads that are going in one direction. Every car exiting onto Central should be sent west, every car exiting onto Southern should be sent east. Cars exiting Tiger Lane should be sent north on East Parkway, and cars Exiting the pay per game lot should be sent South on East Parkway. All cars exiting on to Hollywood should be sent north. Police should be stationed out at least a mile from the stadium to keep traffic moving. Get traffic away from the Fairgrounds and it will find a flow. Inconvienencing everyone for a little while is better than inconveniencing everyone for a long while. Driving a mile or so out of you way is a lot better than idling in the parking lot for a half hour while you creep ahead a few car lengths each minute.

RE: mapdude's comment, and maybe some others

He's exactly right, you whiny beaches need to stop. It's not that bad, especially if you wait just a brief time. Spend 20-30 minutes hanging out and listening to the postgame instead of fighting traffic.

Hey I'm just surprised we're b*tching about traffic flow this week and not chicken bones.

Jackson State's band was ruuuude as hell, y'all.

Coming in on Southern seems to have gotten worse since they made Hollywood one-way on game days. It was the first time I've come that way this year, and I won't make that mistake again. 55 minutes from Highland to Tiger Lane. Of course, Thursday night games are always problems as most of us get there at the same time.

But this really is nothing compared to Old Miss or UTK.

(09-28-2019 05:38 AM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  Some of you folks need to attend a sporting event with a large crowd in another city to gain a little perspective.

that's just it....most don't have that perspective

like an NFL game in a downtown stadium

(09-27-2019 04:51 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(09-27-2019 04:34 PM)T1G3R Wrote:  Great suggestions for traffic flow and much needed. It is a fiasco.
And to the number of fans there last night, I don't know what was announced, but I did experience the non-scanned ticket problem last night. The lady in front of me had 5 people with her party and only her ticket would scan of her printed at home tix, so the ticket scanner waived them all through. Same for my party. Mine was not a printout, but an actual season ticket, so not the quality of the printed barcode. But she tried mine about 2-3 times and I could see her screen never scanned it, then she waived through my party of 3 and acted like she was scanning the people I was with.

What gate#?

Sorry for the late response, but I believe it's gate 2

Compared to other schools, we certainly have it easy. My question revolves around Southern. It took us an hour to get from Highland to Hollywood Thursday night.

No question, many of us were rushing to get there after work so it was more congested than usual but there as no traffic control along Southern (until you got to Hollywood) to help things move more smoothly.

Is that a crazy idea?

(09-29-2019 02:23 AM)Herff Tiger Wrote:  RE: mapdude's comment, and maybe some others

He's exactly right, you whiny beaches need to stop. It's not that bad, especially if you wait just a brief time. Spend 20-30 minutes hanging out and listening to the postgame instead of fighting traffic.

Yeah, really constructive. So because it's always been a disaster we should just live with it? Give me a break.

Somebody called a 4:00 meeting on campus I had to attend. I drove by the stadium on Central about 3:45 in no backup. The meeting finished at about 5:15. I changed cloths on the top floor of the Zach Curlin parking garage then headed West and parked at the board of Ed with very little backup until I got to Hollywood. Then the back up was one traffics light series in length. Walked to the stadium with some nice Navy fans, walked straight into gate 3 with the only delay was taking my hat off for the gate keeper. Bought a bottle of water and got to my seat at 6:00. Socialized, listened to the pregame watched warmups. Marveled at how late people arrive for the game. Same thing for Saturday games.

Everyone was patient and polite.
Everything was stress free.

Stayed for the entire game. Minor crowding at gate 3 exit. Walked slow enough that the officials cop car had to give me a little siren blast. Took a casual walk with more Navy fans back to my car. Got in, turned right on Hollywood with no delay. Turned right on Union after one red light delay exited onto Poplar with one red light delay.

There was a bad wreck at poplar and highland but even that delay was short.

The trip home after each game is spent listening to post-game. Home in Germantown with annoyance.


I choose to Slow down, start a little earlier, walk a short distance (if physically possible), don’t expect the the clock to stop for me or the crowd to part for me because everything happens at the same time as the rest of the crowd. We don’t do royalty privilege in this country. I can choose to be patient and happy or chose to make others complicit in my unhappiness by sharing complaints when minor challenges occur. Change the way you view things and your attitude will make a big change.

(09-29-2019 02:17 PM)Total Eclipse Wrote:  Compared to other schools, we certainly have it easy. My question revolves around Southern. It took us an hour to get from Highland to Hollywood Thursday night.

No question, many of us were rushing to get there after work so it was more congested than usual but there as no traffic control along Southern (until you got to Hollywood) to help things move more smoothly.

Is that a crazy idea?

Well last year (?) the city inexplicably restriped Southern to one lane for most of the stretch from Highland to LBMS. Makes no sense to me why they needed to put a bicycle lane down through there.

That might be part of the problem. But I think the bottleneck is that everything is funneled into the MSC from Southern now - no more turning into Hollywood. And so you have one lane coming East and one lane coming West. All turning into the MSC. With 2 parking attendants checking passes and collecting money, it's one car length movement per 5-10 seconds. Not sure the solution other than possibly create a new entrance into the grassy purple lot section, and reopen a second lane heading west down Southern.

Until this game, I've been coming down Central for the past 2 years with very few delays. Seems like it's isolated to Southern for the most part. Has to be related to one-way Hollywood and the elimination of the 2nd lane on Southern.

(09-29-2019 02:17 PM)Total Eclipse Wrote:  No question, many of us were rushing to get there after work so it was more congested than usual but there as no traffic control along Southern (until you got to Hollywood) to help things move more smoothly.

Is that a crazy idea?

That's why weeknight football games generally have a lot more traffic pregame vs almost any game played on Saturday.

When UCF started the season vs FAMU on Thursday night...football fans fought area rush hour traffic and traffic was almost at a standstill 2 hrs before kickoff....as most fans are getting to campus maybe only 2 hours or less before kickoff.

Compare that to a Saturday Night 7 pm game UCF just played vs UCONN....fans had 11 hours before kickoff to get to campus (Booster lots opened at 8 AM...others opened at 1 pm), and most fans were easily on-campus 3-4 hours before kickoff...and without any rush hour to deal with...pre-game traffic moved smoothly.

Bottom line...weeknight kickoffs (much less time tailgating for most who work), have worse pre-game traffic tie-ups vs any game played on a Saturday.

(09-30-2019 07:08 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(09-29-2019 02:17 PM)Total Eclipse Wrote:  No question, many of us were rushing to get there after work so it was more congested than usual but there as no traffic control along Southern (until you got to Hollywood) to help things move more smoothly.

Is that a crazy idea?

That's why weeknight football games generally have a lot more traffic pregame vs almost any game played on Saturday.

When UCF started the season vs FAMU on Thursday night...football fans fought area rush hour traffic and traffic was almost at a standstill 2 hrs before kickoff....as most fans are getting to campus maybe only 2 hours or less before kickoff.

Compare that to a Saturday Night 7 pm game UCF just played vs UCONN....fans had 11 hours before kickoff to get to campus (Booster lots opened at 8 AM...others opened at 1 pm), and most fans were easily on-campus 3-4 hours before kickoff...and without any rush hour to deal with...pre-game traffic moved smoothly.

Bottom line...weeknight kickoffs (much less time tailgating for most who work), have worse pre-game traffic tie-ups vs any game played on a Saturday.

Why are you over here on OUR board making reasonable comments?

(09-29-2019 08:43 AM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(09-28-2019 05:38 AM)oldmangrizz Wrote:  Some of you folks need to attend a sporting event with a large crowd in another city to gain a little perspective.

that's just it....most don't have that perspective

like an NFL game in a downtown stadium

Yup. If you are going to a Texans game at NRG you need to get into the Med Center 2 hours before the game just to get to your seat by kickoff if you are driving.