Texas Stadium Parking

[SLC54]

I just read in the Ft Worth Star Telegram that Texas Stadium blames the fans not being familiar with parking at Tx Stadium for all of the problems.
They were clearly under staffed and had many of the entrances (exits) closed
I guess we are there just to give Jerry some extra spending money.:mad:

[ScottS]

A friend of mine told me that only 2 gates were open. Is that correct?

[FeeltheHaka]

why should we have to be "familiar?" I am familiar. It's a no brainer. If there was a fire or disaster or terrorist attack, a lot of people would die trying to get out of the stadium, and parking lot. Trying to get us to resent Texas Stadium so we will pour more money into the new stadium is a ploy that I hope will not work. Just take care of Texas Stadium, clean fix it, and stop gouging us on the food/drinks. I think everyone should write a letter to the editor of their papers, as well as their politicians.

[ScottS]

Its really too bad if the gate issue stopped Trinity/SLC from setting the high school record.

[TrojanFan4Life]

We got there at 9:45 - parked and we took turns standing in line - making the fastest people the first people to go in.

We didn't have problems but you had to be willing to get there early.

I heard that they had gates shut down - they even made some of the ET fans drive all the way around the stadium to park on the other side.

Fans from ET and SLC are VERY familar with TS = they are just passing the buck.

Another thing - we left the SGP/CHHS game at half time - they were still charging people $10.00 to get into the game:eek: What they don't want to give away 1 hour of football.

[ScottS]

I don't think being familiar can overcome closed gates. Cowboy fans would have had the same problem with closed gates.

[drgnbkr]

The paper said a lot of people gave up and went home..the Trinty Band could'nt even get in untill the second quarter..the record would have been broken most likely if the fans could have gotten to the stadium.

[ScottS]

The article says TS had the same staff as Thursday's Cowboy game. What it doesn't say is the number of gates that were open vs Thursday.

[TrinityTrojan80]

My wife and daughter were outside the stadium waiting to get into the parking lot @12:30. A friend of mine was with them and got out of the car and walked to get in. He made it to our seats by the Haka. My wife made it into the stands and to her seat at the start of the 3rd qtr. She wasn't the last to arrive either. That stadium had close to 60,000 by the end of the game!

[bowiechik07]

a girl i know sat in traffic for 2 hours. she could see the stadium but never got there. she turned around and went home. and hit traffic on the other side! i got there at 11. and didnt deal with much traffic. i cant believe they had already filled up gate 3. i worked at texas stadium last year during the high school football games with a friend of mine we did the parking. i had never seen so much traffic in my life trying to get out of the gates after the SLC/ET game. we sat in the same spot for 45 minutes. it was insane.

[TrinityTrojan80]

Also did you see how the stadium emptied after the ET, SLC game? Most of those 60,000 were there for our game!

[drgnbkr]

a girl i know sat in traffic for 2 hours. she could see the stadium but never got there. she turned around and went home. and hit traffic on the other side! i got there at 11. and didnt deal with much traffic. i cant believe they had already filled up gate 3. i worked at texas stadium last year during the high school football games with a friend of mine we did the parking. i had never seen so much traffic in my life trying to get out of the gates after the SLC/ET game. we sat in the same spot for 45 minutes. it was insane.

First time I tailgated both before and after a game! We just pulled out the lawn chairs and made some more sammitches and watched the gridlock...

[hollywood]

a girl i know sat in traffic for 2 hours. she could see the stadium but never got there. she turned around and went home. and hit traffic on the other side! i got there at 11. and didnt deal with much traffic. i cant believe they had already filled up gate 3. i worked at texas stadium last year during the high school football games with a friend of mine we did the parking. i had never seen so much traffic in my life trying to get out of the gates after the SLC/ET game. we sat in the same spot for 45 minutes. it was insane.

We got to the stadium at 11am as well. Just in time I guess, because I had a friend who was on I-12 at 11:15 who did not get in until well into the 3rd quarter.

[hollywood]

Also did you see how the stadium emptied after the ET, SLC game? Most of those 60,000 were there for our game!

My group left at the end of the SLC/ET game to get something to eat and came back in the 3rd quarter of the Cedar Hill/Hebron game.

[rams55]

i feel bad because i used my fourwheel drive to drive around one of the blocked off exits to the stadiums so i could get in. i did this at 12pm and i talked to some kids that were stuck in traffic for 3 hours...

oh well i think what i did can be justified.

[businesstron]

I was kind of pissed them ******** shut down the two main entrances to the stadium. If someone waited in Traffic they would've never got in. I had to go all the way up to NW Highway and take the back door way in through Las Colinas and park at The university of Dallas...

[gobuffs04]

i'm suprized there wasn't a riot...you know how many pissed off fans there probably was

[bleedblue]

I was kind of pissed them ******** shut down the two main entrances to the stadium. If someone waited in Traffic they would've never got in. I had to go all the way up to NW Highway and take the back door way in through Las Colinas and park at The university of Dallas...

exactly what i did, i was sitting at a standstill for a good 2 hours on 183/loop 12 before doing that. i veered off, went to a parking lot that was charging $40 to park(and people were still paying it) went out and went around into the red parking. I didn't get to the game until the 3rd quarter.

i was very unsatisfied with how the traffic and parking was handled

[JustADad]

My family and I flew in from out of town thanksgiving feasting landing at 12:30 at Love Field. Saw the long traffic lines while heading up 183 and then 114. I bypassed the traffic to Rochelle and then headed up Northgate to attempt to come in the back door. There was too much traffic on Tom Braniff so I parked on Northgate approximately 2 miles away and hoofed it. We were inside the stadium watching the game with only 3 minutes gone in the first quarter. I am so glad I chose not to wait in line for a parking spot:cool: No matter what the TS officials are saying; they were not prepared:mad: That prevented many fans from watching a great game.

[StarmanDX]

I said **** it and parked in a hotel lot and walked about 2.5 miles! But I had a buddy drive me back to my car when I left last night. Good thing I didn't get a ticket either.

[dragonsfan]

I left Southlake at 10:45 going down 114, but we were still sitting in the slow lane west of Loop 12 at 11:30. When I realized, duh, that the near stadium parking was slow I moved over into the fast lane, kept going past the stadium, turned around and went to the parking lot off Loop 12 north of the stadium. We got in with lots of time, got good seats. The early mistake was waiting in the long line to park immediately around Texas Stadium. I don't know what happened later.

[sgfantoo]

I was kind of pissed them ******** shut down the two main entrances to the stadium. If someone waited in Traffic they would've never got in. I had to go all the way up to NW Highway and take the back door way in through Las Colinas and park at The university of Dallas...

This is what I did and then walked by an empty parking lot right across Loop 12 (I think) from the stadium. When I left the game after the first quarter of Cedar Hill/Hebron game I noticed that people had jumped the curb to park. Totally unprepared.

[hollywood]

i feel bad because i used my fourwheel drive to drive around one of the blocked off exits to the stadiums so i could get in. i did this at 12pm and i talked to some kids that were stuck in traffic for 3 hours...

oh well i think what i did can be justified.

LOL. Why did I somehow know in my heart you drove a for wheel drive vehicle. :)

[slc1knight]

What a mess. What a bold face lie by the Tx Stadium spokesman to say they had the same amount of staff as the Cowboy game. That game easily could have had more people but they gave up.

Texas Stadium, The City of Irving, Dalllas Cowboys or anyone who was responsible for that debacle should be ashamed of themselves.

[bowiechik07]

PEOPLE ACTUALLY PAID $40 TO PARK IN A PARKING LOT?!!! I DONT THINK SO! i would have turned around and gone home. or found some other place to park. geez!

[Old Fart]

My brother told me it was a serious Cluster ****. Irving Police had no clue and did not prepare. We got to park next to what he called the "Pee Fence". Under the Texas Stadium Sign. We got out really quick though

[DrEdward]

Yeah, clearly Texas Stadium AND the Irving Police Department truly screwed up. There appeared to be several problems:
-Texas Stadium did not open all the gates either on the way in or on the way out;
-Texas Stadium did not open the red and green lots in a timely manner.
- Closely related to these was there was no one (or at best a few) directing the traffic to the outer lots as the Blue stadium parking filled. I don't know if this is the responsibility of TS or the Irving Police, but whoever it was didn't do it.
-Exiting after the Carroll-Trinity game was indeed entertaining. Once again, there appeared to be minimal traffic control by the Irving PD. But in their defense in this area, a big part of the problem was all the folks leaving at the same time as others were trying to get in. This is not usually all that much of a big deal, but with the volume of traffic on Friday, it turned into a nightmare.
Just think what might have happened to the return drive had it not been a holiday weekend, since the timing of the first game would have been such that the start of the rush hour traffic would have added to the exit traffic.

In any evetn, Texas Stadium is simply wrong about this "fans didn't know" stuff.

[DragonDad]

Yeah, clearly Texas Stadium AND the Irving Police Department truly screwed up. There appeared to be several problems:
-Texas Stadium did not open all the gates either on the way in or on the way out;
-Texas Stadium did not open the red and green lots in a timely manner.
- Closely related to these was there was no one (or at best a few) directing the traffic to the outer lots as the Blue stadium parking filled. I don't know if this is the responsibility of TS or the Irving Police, but whoever it was didn't do it.
-Exiting after the Carroll-Trinity game was indeed entertaining. Once again, there appeared to be minimal traffic control by the Irving PD. But in their defense in this area, a big part of the problem was all the folks leaving at the same time as others were trying to get in. This is not usually all that much of a big deal, but with the volume of traffic on Friday, it turned into a nightmare.
Just think what might have happened to the return drive had it not been a holiday weekend, since the timing of the first game would have been such that the start of the rush hour traffic would have added to the exit traffic.

In any evetn, Texas Stadium is simply wrong about this "fans didn't know" stuff.

and the staff isn't very friendly, knowledgable or helpful. It's obvious to me there is no pride of operation at Texas Stadium.

Who said the secret to running a winning baseball team is to keep the 4 players who hate your guts away from the 5 players who are yet undecided? Well, I think I just evened the sides.

[slc1knight]

A real shame because with competent stadium help there would have been over 50,000 fans.

[Gazelle]

There are at least 5 ways to get into TS. For high school games, I try and figure out which way will have the least traffic and get there early. For SLC-Trinity, I came across on NW Highway & the spur route that intersects Harry Hines at 11:30.
No problem in or out.
Some SLC people have figured this out as well, as they get off 114 @ NW highway, go east past I-35 and get the spur road. It also lets them back out in the right direction.

[CoppellCowboy57]

were you the guy walking along 114 with a bunch of beer in his hand, I honked my horn at him and gave um a big ol thumbs up

[PlanoTexan]

It got no better on Saturday with the customer service department. Plano East played the third game of the day and for some reason were on the opposite side of 9-5A brothers from the earlier two games. We ask a woman who was a "Person in Charge" why we were moved and was instructed to go ask Jerry Jones. Not the answer I was looking for. Texas Stadium sucks!!!!!

[maxtor]

I went "early" too except that I needed to go another hour earlier than that. I waited and waited in that stupid line all the while looking over at Texas stadium and the full parking lots and the many thousands waiting just to freakin buy tickets and get in.
It was 25 minutes til kickoff and I said ###K this and tore off towards FtWorth on 183 thinking I can walk a mile and a half and still make the kickoff. I parked in some businesses parking lot along with a hundred other people.
I walked in just in time to sing the anthem.

I felt like Shelly Winters in the Poseidon Adventure.

[DrEdward]

I went "early" too except that I needed to go another hour earlier than that. I waited and waited in that stupid line all the while looking over at Texas stadium and the full parking lots and the many thousands waiting just to freakin buy tickets and get in.
It was 25 minutes til kickoff and I said ###K this and tore off towards FtWorth on 183 thinking I can walk a mile and a half and still make the kickoff. I parked in some businesses parking lot along with a hundred other people.
I walked in just in time to sing the anthem.

I felt like Shelly Winters in the Poseidon Adventure.

But you got there!!!!!