Worst Parking/Traffic Control [Archive]

dragonsdaddy

02-22-2006, 12:32 PM

Well we have discussed best and worst stadiums but let's break out the parking and traffic control. Even great stadiums have terrible parking.

Turner
Tully (when it rains)
coppell is one of the worst i've ever experienced. and surprisingly enough when they remodeled 5 years ago they made the home side the worst side for ingress/egress. lately they are usually well egressed by the time the scoreboard goes 000.

South Texas

02-22-2006, 12:56 PM

coppell is one of the worst i've ever experienced. and surprisingly enough when they remodeled 5 years ago they made the home side the worst side for ingress/egress. lately they are usually well egressed by the time the scoreboard goes 000.

I've had a great experience at coppell, the stadium is better than half of the other 5a stadiums in the state

Daniel Agnew

02-22-2006, 12:57 PM

Shotwell in Abilene is pretty bad but after the Lee/SLC game they have made some major improvements there.

dragonsdaddy

02-22-2006, 12:57 PM

I've had a great experience at coppell, the stadium is better than half of the other 5a stadiums in the state
i love the stadium itself. the single exit(2 cars at a time for every car on both sides of the stadium is not good.

Rebel Express

02-22-2006, 12:59 PM

Grande..... Midland Texas
Beautiful Stadium......
By far the worst traffic ingress/egress "design" I have ever seen.....

supercentex

02-22-2006, 01:03 PM

Round Rock ISD is pretty bad...only one exit. And, it exits to probably one of the busiest roads in North Austin/Round Rock....Parmer Lane.

I remember Abilene Shotwell from the Waco/Midland Lee playoff game.......no paved parking...and it was dirt. We almost had to go 4X4'er just to get out along a fence to the road.

We had just washed and waxed the car and had to do it again the next day.

Waco ISD probably is the best i've been to ...and no i'm not being a homer.....they have 4 entrances into the stadium........and 4 going out. The traffic isn't that bad in the area that it was built because there is nothing over there yet. And, it's right next to I-35.
They just built a new outlet mall next door and some new apartments so I'm sure it will be worse soon. But, nothing like most.........

Not many know...but if your team is on the homeside.......the easiest way to get in is go past the stadium on New Road and right after the Pete Mejia Field (baseball) take a left into the stadium. No one from out-of-town really knows about this entrance. If the parking lot is full behind the homeside they will tell you. And, you can just park next to the old baseball field. You can see it on this map. It's not paved but it's not bad at all. You can sometimes walk through the gate of the baseball fields and over to the stadium gates. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1401+s+New+Rd,+Waco,+TX+76711&ll=31.510334,-97.158773&spn=0.008507,0.021458&t=h

after going to the link you have to zoom in by using the tab on the left and move it up higher until you can see good. You can see the small entrance past the stadium.

CKE

02-22-2006, 01:08 PM

Sv's parking sucks............unless your a top gun

South Texas

02-22-2006, 01:10 PM

I've had a great experience at coppell, the stadium is better than half of the other 5a stadiums in the state

It's been a few years, so the exiting must have been erased from my mind

RPM

02-22-2006, 01:15 PM

Sams Stadium in Brownsville Tx...they have no parking for the stadium..its built in the middle of a nieghborhood and surrounded by small business..you have to park around the hoods or pay and park at some of the apartment complexes across the street...

South Texas

02-22-2006, 02:10 PM

Harlingen is a nightmare, great home side and endzone seats but the vistors side along with the chicken shack for a press box is terrible

AZTiger

02-22-2006, 02:13 PM

yo Katy fans where you at on this one...the obvious beginning and end to this question is Strake Jesuit

FeeltheHaka

02-22-2006, 02:13 PM

I think they are all bad. The parking is usually fine, but it is the waiting to get out of the parking lot; and watching teenagers hanging out of the window, on top of the car/hood etc. I can't stand. Also, where are the cops in the lots. They are walking around the games, but I would like to see them in the lot when everyone is leaving.

RPM

02-22-2006, 02:14 PM

the best 5A traffic control and parking stadiums in the RGV are Donnas, and La Joyas..you wont run out of parking or be in line long after the games in those stadiums..McAllen is also pretty good..

South Texas

02-22-2006, 02:15 PM

AMC was bad before the additional parking lots. About as good as East Centrals (SA)

DrEdward

02-22-2006, 02:34 PM

The place that continually surprises me is Texas Stadium. After all these years, you would think they would have figured out how to park folks in a timely manner and to move traffic before and after the high school games. Nope.

SVite

02-22-2006, 03:01 PM

cove_2001

02-22-2006, 03:04 PM

Floyd Casey Stadium

No traffic control whatsoever.

cove_2001

supercentex

02-22-2006, 03:17 PM

Floyd Casey Stadium

No traffic control whatsoever.

cove_2001

This is the easiest...especially high school games. There are so many exits I can't even count them.

The easy way leaving is to head back away from Valley Mills Drive until you hit 18th street. Take a right.......go to I-35 and then go south or north.

Same with coming in...going the backway. Take 17th/18th Street...go up that until you hit Speight and take a left and you'll run right into the stadium.

Most people try and just hit Valley Mills Drive and that is BAD. That is the busiest road in Waco and it will take you forever to get to I-35.

SeguinMatadors

02-22-2006, 03:20 PM

Clemens parking sucks ***.

Miss Kitty

02-22-2006, 03:22 PM

Supercentex,

You have been so nice about giving people hints as to easy access. Thank you.

lonny23

02-22-2006, 03:55 PM

Well we have discussed best and worst stadiums but let's break out the parking and traffic control. Even great stadiums have terrible parking.

Turner
Tully (when it rains)
Not all is lost when the parking is bad.

pack4life

02-22-2006, 03:57 PM

Moorehead stadium parking is terrible, any of the lufkin fans know after the 04' game down there.

Miss Kitty

02-22-2006, 03:59 PM

Not all is lost when the parking is bad.

:D :D :D

Firebird

02-22-2006, 04:07 PM

San Benito. There is virtually no parking to speak of, you gotta park on the side of a street in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It's especially bad after Harlingen plays there. San Benito usually gets beat on the field, but ALWAYS wins the "post-game car vandalism" contest.

Miss Kitty

02-22-2006, 04:15 PM

yo Katy fans where you at on this one...the obvious beginning and end to this question is Strake Jesuit

Well I was gonna let someone else bring that up. But on the bright side, if you park in the strip center next door, you can get a tatoo and buy three XXX videos for only $20.00. :D

Slim-Rob

02-22-2006, 04:17 PM

Well we have discussed best and worst stadiums but let's break out the parking and traffic control. Even great stadiums have terrible parking.

Turner
Tully (when it rains)

Round Rock...all teams/spirit groups/fans leave out of the same entrance. Traffic was horrible and we got stuck for a while after we lost....

supercentex

02-22-2006, 04:18 PM

Round Rock...all teams/spirit groups/fans leave out of the same entrance. Traffic was horrible and we got stuck for a while after we lost....

Yeah, I said that earlier...only one exit....and onto one of the busiest streets in Austin/Round Rock which makes it even worse.

toonman

02-22-2006, 05:33 PM

[QUOTE=Miss Kitty]Well we have discussed best and worst stadiums but let's break out the parking and traffic control. Even great stadiums have terrible parking.
QUOTE]

Coppell

Agreed - Most definitely

Tigerjag

02-22-2006, 06:01 PM

AMC was bad before the additional parking lots. About as good as East Centrals (SA)

Where does AMC play? Is it that stadium across from the school?

supercentex

02-22-2006, 06:46 PM

Where does AMC play? Is it that stadium across from the school?

They used to not even have a stadium when I lived there...they used Kyle Field as their home stadium.

They built Tigerland Stadium right next to the school in like 1990? They used to have a big sign saying "Welcome to the Jungle" but I didn't see it the last time I was there.

Since it was built they didn't lose a home game there for a long long time.....they even beat Odessa Permian there back when they were pretty good.

It's kind of a small stadium now for 5-A. But, the teams that play them are so far away that it doesn't fill up anyway.

ktCarl

02-22-2006, 07:31 PM

Well I was gonna let someone else bring that up. But on the bright side, if you park in the strip center next door, you can get a tatoo and buy three XXX videos for only $20.00. :D

The parking at Strake is inadequate at best. The stadium is too small for teams that have a big following as Katy does, BUT, the stadium is built well, not too old and large enough for 4A and a lot of 5A schools that are lacking of support. Plus, instead of raunchy cheese nachos they are catered by Chick-fill-a(SP?).

mojo61

02-22-2006, 07:34 PM

I remember Abilene Shotwell from the Waco/Midland Lee playoff game.......no paved parking...and it was dirt. We almost had to go 4X4'er just to get out along a fence to the road.

We had just washed and waxed the car and had to do it again the next day.

Abilene has made some recent improvements, but for some reason, only a small section of the visitor's parking lot was paved. Abilene is still the only sta. in the old LSWC that still can't afford to pay for the visitor's parking lot to be paved (Odessa, Midland, & San Angelo have all of their lots paved, including visitor parking). Poor old Abilene--it's not the most progressive town in Texas, esp. when it comes to the city or county spending a few dollars.

mojo61

02-22-2006, 07:40 PM

My vote is Brownwood sta. $3 to park during a playoff game & only one car @ a time goes in the lot. :eek: I was an hr. early for the game & still missed the first few min. Brownwood, y'all can do better than that, I know. :)

Tigerjag

02-22-2006, 08:08 PM

Since it was built they didn't lose a home game there for a long long time.....they even beat Odessa Permian there back when they were pretty good.

It's kind of a small stadium now for 5-A. But, the teams that play them are so far away that it doesn't fill up anyway.

TexasBob.com says they didn't lose a game there for 6 years. Also says that it seats 6,000, which is bigger than I thought it was, but still small. I think that AMC comes to Katy the first year we play, but even if it's a bit of a drive the following year, there will be a lot of Katy fans there. I think half of the graduating class every year goes to either A&M or Blinn, so lots of local interest too.

supercentex

02-22-2006, 08:38 PM

TexasBob.com says they didn't lose a game there for 6 years. Also says that it seats 6,000, which is bigger than I thought it was, but still small. I think that AMC comes to Katy the first year we play, but even if it's a bit of a drive, there will be a lot of Katy fans there. I think half of the graduating class every year goes to either A&M or Blinn, so lots of local interest too.

Probably the best one school high school stadium in 13-5A is Temple Wildcat Stadium. The press box is lifted above the rest of the stadium. They had to do this after Temple beat Permian in 1992 in the final minutes of the game. So many Temple fans were jumping up and down after the late touchdown, that the stadium started to crack underneath.

http://www.wcscontractors.com/images/wildcat%20stadium.JPG

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/CREED2474/DSC06227_JPG.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/CREED2474/wildcat3.jpg

tailgater

02-22-2006, 08:58 PM

Well we have discussed best and worst stadiums but let's break out the parking and traffic control. Even great stadiums have terrible parking.

Turner
Tully (when it rains)

I Agree. Turner is the worst. Don't ever park in the visitors lot. If you do. Take lunch, dinner - whatever. you'll be there a long time.

Trinity Trojan Fan For Li

02-22-2006, 09:11 PM

Been to many stadiums, far and wide. Two stadiums can get gridlocked:
1. Round Rock ISD Stadium - After the state championship game, Trinity's side was gridlocked for over a hour. We had a chance to talk to friends, and one of the highlights of the day, I had my picture taken holding the State Championship trophy.
2. Coppell's Stadium - after getting gridlocked one time, we learned to park way back from the stadium so we could get out faster.

South Texas

02-22-2006, 09:19 PM

Moorehead stadium parking is terrible, any of the lufkin fans know after the 04' game down there.

I've heard about the parking situation. I also heard people were being towed from a local banks parking lot while they were still open. That was just a rumor that I heard. Great pic. of Temple's stadium

cove_2001

02-22-2006, 10:31 PM

This is the easiest...especially high school games. There are so many exits I can't even count them.

The easy way leaving is to head back away from Valley Mills Drive until you hit 18th street. Take a right.......go to I-35 and then go south or north.

Same with coming in...going the backway. Take 17th/18th Street...go up that until you hit Speight and take a left and you'll run right into the stadium.

Most people try and just hit Valley Mills Drive and that is BAD. That is the busiest road in Waco and it will take you forever to get to I-35.

Yeah we tried to stay away from Valley Mills, but all the other people weren't. Once we got on an actual road we just took the back streets and got on the highway.

cove_2001

supercentex

02-22-2006, 10:50 PM

lonny23

02-23-2006, 12:39 AM

Well I was gonna let someone else bring that up. But on the bright side, if you park in the strip center next door, you can get a tatoo and buy three XXX videos for only $20.00. :DI thought you told me you better deals someplace else!:p

lonny23

02-23-2006, 12:44 AM

I've heard about the parking situation. I also heard people were being towed from a local banks parking lot while they were still open. That was just a rumor that I heard. Great pic. of Temple's stadium
I know this is a hijack, but it's a funny story. The lead singer from the Tejano band Lumbre says there's a terrible breeze that comes into Temple's stadium and he was a kicker for one of the Killeen schools in high school. He said he lined up for a 40 yard FG one time and the wind was so bad that he kicked the ball straight at the corner pylon in the back of the end zone, but the ball curved straight through the uprights!:D

redred52

02-23-2006, 06:34 AM

Temple's Mildcat Stadium I believe holds about 11,000 but visitor parking is pretty bad. All they have is a small paved parking lot that doubles for their baseball parking. Ater that you gotta find a side street or park at the HEB and hope you don't get towed off. Also bring something to clean your seats with, every bird in Temple leaves their droppings on the visitor side.

AHS Mustangs

02-23-2006, 11:37 AM

I think Galena Park's old Dement Stadium is pretty bad. I am so glad they finally built something much better. That was like the ones in south texas, right in the middle of a neighborhood. But, for an old stadium it was classy!

Big Daddy Cool

02-23-2006, 02:44 PM

Personally i think all depends on who is playing who and where the game is at. I think we would all agree when the team your playing isn't very good then a lot of people stay home which means less cars in the parking lot. Where as when its a rival or a playoff game then everyone is there thus the parking lots are full to over flowing.

Mr. Buddy Garrity

02-23-2006, 02:54 PM

Cardinal Stadium in Beaumont and Moorehead Stadium.

AllenEagles07

02-24-2006, 09:42 AM

allen had really bad parking. the football team parks by the baseball fields so we can get out fast. so after every game they have a 300 yard walk to the buses

Humblefied

03-04-2006, 03:49 PM

Turner stadium is nice to all the home team fans...it has nothing to do with the fact we have three exits and you guys have only one.

Gridiron Gopher

03-04-2006, 03:56 PM

The Alamodome when there is back to back HS games!Only one exit,and at the same time there letting in new paying customers come in for the next game.

Trying to get of of Texas Motor Speedway after the Nascar race!Theres 250,000 people in a traffic Jam manuvering to go almost nowhere fast...lol

But,I`ll be there for the Busch Race,& Nascar race again this year,i`m a sucker for a good traffic Jam!:D

My brother-in-law and I figured out a way out of there in about 15 minutes. We parked in the farthest space that was still on the grounds by the main entrance to the parking (about a 10 min walk from the gates). It took us about 5 mins to get on I35. The year before we parked up close and sat in traffic for 2 1/2 hours.

Gridiron Gopher

03-04-2006, 03:58 PM

Boerne was HORRIBLE last year. People were parking 10 blocks away and there was almost no parking at the stadium.

BigArab

03-04-2006, 08:20 PM

Getting in and out of Trinity Mother Francis in Tyler is horrible. It bottlenecks you in as you try to go out on these little two lane streets. After a game one time, it took me literally an hour to get out of there.

slorch

03-04-2006, 09:55 PM

Floyd Casey Stadium

No traffic control whatsoever.

cove_2001
I haven't had to wait long to get out, but I didn't see any traffic control either.
It's funny to me, when I go to a Lufkin game, everybody is real orderly and nice when they are leaving. It's ironic they are so much more efficient driving than the morons I drive with everyday in the Houston area, and LP is 2.5 hours from the "Big Cities"

supercentex

03-04-2006, 09:56 PM

CHHSdad

03-05-2006, 11:24 PM

A Colleyville and/or Grapevine game can get on your last nerve, especially if you're running a little late.

Then you have to drive to Grapevine HS and walk or ride the bus :(

PaulinPlano

03-08-2006, 09:27 PM

Here is a twist.... absolute BEST Parking / Worst traffic has to be Tom Kimbrough in Murphy. The parking lot is huge on both sides of the stadium and all concrete and very well lit, North and South exit roads are 4 lane. But it exits on to Murphy Road which is a miserable 2 lane road. The city/county/and TXDOT are about 2 years behind on widening Murphy Road.:mad:

Slim-Rob

03-08-2006, 10:01 PM

Round Rock's parking lot was HUGE. But ALL the parking lots went out 1 or 2 exits, onto a busy road.

Judson Stadium has a decent amount of parking. There are 2 exits out of the Home parking lot, with multiple roads you can access from those 2 exits. You can leave the home side onto "Rocket Lane" which will take you to either Loop 1604 or FM 1516, depending on which way you go. You can also exit towards the high school and then goto either FM 1516 and go towards I-10, or go towards FM 78. You can leave the visitors side onto "Rocket Lane" and go towards Loop 1604 or towards FM 1516. There are always police around to "help" traffic move also.

GoOwls

03-08-2006, 10:22 PM

I can't believe we've gotten 3 pages into this thread and my two least favorite stadiums for parking haven't been mentioned. Problem is that they are in the heart of the most wealthy neighborhood in the state. Yes, I'm talking about Highlander Stadium and Gerald Ford Stadium in Highland Park. No, this isn't because we are such arch old rivals. It's because it's just plain bad.

Highlander is landlocked by all the multi-million dollar homes. The only real parking is on the HP side. Once you get past about 1,000 fans on the visitor side, you have to park in the neighborhoods that surround the stadium and park in front of the houses. Needless to say, if you're like Garland and travel 6,000 to 8,000 to a game like that, you are in for a long, long walk....twice.

Similar for Ford Stadium at SMU. It's landlocked by similar neighborhoods and SMU. Once the small parking lots fill up, you must go to campus parking or the neighboorhoods. The parking is much more limited by the university there. Many of the parking lots are restricted to students only. It can be a nightmare getting in and out and the walk can be longer than at Highlander.

No offense to my HP friends, but whether by chance or design, you guys have sure got a sweet setup to discourage opposing teams fans from coming to your home games. I don't know how many times over the years I've heard fans say they weren't going to HP games just because of the parking problems.

NTxTiger

03-08-2006, 10:36 PM

I got to the highway exit next to Denton Ryan's stadium about 7:10 and got into my seat at 7:35. Worst I've ever been to getting in. One exit off the highway backed up several hundred yards.

ktrain

03-10-2006, 07:21 AM

Turner stadium is nice to all the home team fans...it has nothing to do with the fact we have three exits and you guys have only one.

And the fact that you have cops working the home side letting traffic out onto Wilson Road and the single exit for the visitors has no cops so basically if your on the visitor side you are not leaving until everyone on the home side is gone.