Traffic, parking will hurt ballpark
After all is said and done, the “big boys” of this community got their way regarding the new downtown ballpark. Perhaps the Wizards’ new management won’t gain after all. In talking to many season ticket holders, we will not buy season tickets to the new downtown ballpark. The reason? Inadequate parking and unworkable enter and exit traffic patterns.
Kudos to the Harrison Square project but bah humbug to replacing a perfectly good, workable present ballpark.
ART BRICKMAN
Fort Wayne
Art, please see the attached picture. You will park in the parking garage. Take a left on Harrison and then a right on Jefferson. That should be able to get you to where you need to go.
13 comments:
Quit trying to confuse Mr. Brickman with actual facts about downtown transportation.
I love the two arguments of there not being enough parking and traffic problems.
Both of these are fallacies.
Also, countless amounts of people have been claiming that they have spoken to all the other ticket holders and it appears no one is going to buy season tickets anymore.
It might be even easier to "get around" downtown.
Coliseum Blvd can get pretty bad.
Coliseum Blvd. and the coliseum specifically are the worst spots for traffic in the entire city. This makes no sense, Art.
Maybe we can make a special freeway for Art.
I think we could draw up a picture of the "Art Freeway" - maybe we could put surface level parking inside the stadium or just turn it into a drive-in ballpark - just like the old theatres.
I love the drive-in idea.
CFW, can you get a photoshop on that?
Funny, Art never talked to me, currently a non-season ticket holder who will actually be buying them to the new ballpark. It seems to me, then, the only losers will be fans who stop enjoying their sport simply to make some sort of statement.
A drive-in ballpark. Now that is something these people could get behind!
Believe it or not, some people are intimidated by parking garages, so Art's concerns can't be entirely dismissed. Though perhaps we should discuss whether such people should be driving in the first place.
I do have one concern about parking, and that is for daytime games. Since Lincoln employees will use the new garage on weekdays and nearby surface lots are fairly well occupied during weekdays, will there be adequate parking for daytime games, especially when the Grand Wayne has an event?
My husband and I will go to more games with a downtown park, as we both work downtown and live in the burbs. A change of clothes, dinner in a nearby restaurant or at the ballpark, then settle in for an evening of mediocre baseball.
NOTE TO THE HARDBALL CAPITAL GUYS: Get an affiliation with a team closer to Fort Wayne. We don't care about San Diego. We care about Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee. We want to be able to take in a game with the parent team when one of the good players "graduates". Khalil Greene may have only spent five minutes here, but Wizards fans would be more inclined to follow his career if he belonged to a nearby team.
Hockeygirl,
You may be interested in reading this.
I agree that a team affiliation change should be considered.
Brian-
Thanks for the link; it was an excellent post. Have the Hardball guys said anything in response to questions about class and affiliation? It would be understandable if they couldn't offer specifics (delicacy of negotiations and all that), but it would be nice to know it's on their horizon.
drive fast. turn right
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