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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, October 12, 2012
Bad news from the asphalt jungle:
It is the Yankees’ fourth season in their new 50,287-seat stadium, a season that saw the team win its division while posting the second highest attendance in the major leagues. But the eleven parking lots and garages owned by the BPDC were only 43 percent full–and that’s on game days. Other days, they’re largely empty.
Most fans have been traveling to games by subway or taking a train to the new Metro-North station near the stadium. Others have looked for street parking or lots with prices lower then the $25 to $48 dollars charged by the stadium lots.
That means less money than expected for the company, which has been drawing from a reserve fund to pay off bondholders. That fund is all but depleted, which has thrown the company into default.
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1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: October 12, 2012 at 02:27 PM (#4266270)Jesus Christ. No wonder nobody wanted to use them.
*Certain caveats do apply.
I've gone as a passenger by car to Yankee Stadium. I guess the logic is that the park is so close to the George Washington Bridge on the one hand, and not very many miles across the Bronx from Long Island or Connecticut on the other, that it can be tempting (depending on where you're coming from) to drive all the way rather than to drive to some park-and-ride that might be full or inconvenient and then take two or three trains.
I'm with you, though, I'd always take the two or three trains.
Then Yankees president Randy Levine assured the City Council that despite the high cost of the new parking system, it would bring in sufficient revenue. “Those revenues will go back to pay the cost of the project and go to the city and a private operator,” he said.
Heh. The bondholders are going to get screwed, the City will get screwed and the neighborhood got screwed, but the Yankees got their parking spots...
I usually drive to Fenway when I go to games even though I'm going to pay between $30-$40 to park. The problem is simply one of convenience. If I take the subway I can usually get to the game no problem but on the way out congestion and a lack of trains means that I have to add 45-75 minutes to my ride home. Obviously traffic in Boston sucks but if I leave a night game at 10 I can be at my house by 11:15 if I drove and it's midnight if I'm lucky if I use the subway.
The incremental cost winds up being $10 cheaper because parking ($7) and subway pass ($2.50 one way) costs me $9.50.
Hahahaha.
But, if you live outside Rt. 128 in Mass., the train is hardly unquestionably the best option.
So if not for those parking lots, Game Five today would be taking place in Charlotte.
From a lot of the suburbs, it's much faster, even with traffic.
If you're coming from Long Island or NJ, you'd have to take the train into Penn St, and then subway up to the Bronx, and the trains don't run frequently at those times in those directions. Westchester just got Metro North access with the new Stadium, and even that's only on one of the three lines (Hudson).
Also, a round trip ticket on the train is going to cost you $20+, plus $4 for the subway. So, if even 2 people are going together, driving is break even cost wise.
New York Daily News, March 24, 2011. Diaz is Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
The idea is they want to encourage hotels to be built there, that will use the parking. Of course, they are now negotiating from a horrible position.
fortunately AT&T has free valet bike parking. Only way to travel.
I'm in NJ, about 10 miles from the GWB. These are my most convenient options:
1) Drive to the Stadium. If I leave early enough to avoid the traffic, I can get there in under half an hour, stop in one of the bars across the street, have a beer, wander into the Stadium early, and get settled in before the game starts.
2) Figure out the inconvenient bus schedule, take that into midtown and the subway up. That will take an hour if I'm lucky.
3) Take the train into Hoboken, the PATH across the river, and the subway up. Given time waiting around, this one probably takes an hour and a half, as would...
4) Drive half an hour down to Hoboken, then take the PATH and subway up.
I suppose there's also
5) Take the train to Penn Station (involving switching trains in Secaucus) then the subway up... also at least an hour depending on how much waiting for trains is involved, and what exactly the schedules are.
Amazingly, driving is just what works out to be the easiest and most relaxing way to get there.
When I lived on the south shore that LIRR ride was only 45 minutes or so, so mass transit was a lot more practical.
The one game I went to this year I managed to pick a disaster of a traffic day and got to my seats in the ballpark around 8 PM after leaving my office at 4....suffice to say, the best place to watch a yankee game for me is either my office or my apartment.
Because you decided to avoid the parking problem at the stadium by going somewhere else entirely?
Oh, two or three trains, not the 2 or 3 trains.
25, 30-minute walk along the Embarcadero is pretty nice, actually, most days.
:-D Yeah, I'd be like, the hell with this, let's go to the Brooklyn Museum.
http://transportationnation.org/2012/10/10/nine-percent-of-all-d-c-bike-share-bikes-are-at-washington-nationals-stadium-for-the-playoff-game/
"Nats fans who chose bike to cheer on their team may want to consider checking out in the top of the ninth"
better advice has never been given
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