Another Brilliant Decision By Our Athletic Department

[AnesthesiaDawg]

Let’s move the parking pass checkpoint barely on campus off Hwy 82 so we can back traffic up onto a four lane highway and I can get hit from behind by somebody going 60+ mph while browsing Sixpack on their phone.

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

 

[Maroon Pug]

Let’s move the parking pass checkpoint barely on campus off Hwy 82 so we can back traffic up onto a four lane highway and I can get hit from behind by somebody going 60+ mph while browsing Sixpack on their phone.

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

Feel your pain. My car was totalled after getting rear ended on an interstate off-ramp a few weeks ago. Dude hit me so hard it his brakes failed and rolled backwards ~150 ft into the exit sign.

 

[AnesthesiaDawg]

For clarification I didn’t get hit, but I had to slam on brakes and the car coming up behind me had to also few seconds later.

The whole process just seems to be asking for an accident.

 

[Trazom]

Parking and transit at State is in need of an overhaul. Whatever came of the follow-up to the graduation ADA parking fiasco?

 

[QuaoarsKing]

It was pretty awful during football season too. I know exactly where my parking lot is, yet I had to stop, roll down the window, and listen to someone give me directions to lot 36 while every behind me waited.

And then half the time, there was no one at the entrance to 36 anyway to scan my pass...

 

[HotMop]

It was pretty awful during football season too. I know exactly where my parking lot is, yet I had to stop, roll down the window, and listen to someone give me directions to lot 36 while every behind me waited.

And then half the time, there was no one at the entrance to 36 anyway to scan my pass...

Lot 36...noted.

 

[Brokerdawg]

we are supposed to be an engineering school. Let’s ask them to overhaul this mess or outsource it to ChickFilA. It’s getting worse every year.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Lot 36...noted.

Sure, come on. It was usually only half-full.

 

[M R DAWGS]

Common sense and real world experience are 2 major things lacking in today’s academia world. It is especially true at MSU.

 

[Ozarkdawg]

2-10 will definitely contribute to half empty parking lots

 

[ETK99]

The fool running our traffic should be fired. And as good as it looks, changing up the road at the Hump was crazy too. It's really created problems.

 

[ETK99]

Parking and transit at State is in need of an overhaul. Whatever came of the follow-up to the graduation ADA parking fiasco?

Let's just say it won't happen again

 

[dog99walker]

I also park in 36 and every game I had to wait for the ONE GUYminding the turn, explain the multiple options to people with no parking pass. I usually had to wait in line 15 minutes to make the turn to Lakeview Dr.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I also park in 36 and every game I had to wait for the ONE GUYminding the turn, explain the multiple options to people with no parking pass. I usually had to wait in line 15 minutes to make the turn to Lakeview Dr.

Eh. Just tell the guy this ain’t your first rodeo and you’re good.

But you’d think it’d be one way roads on game day.

Before games, State is a Roach Motel** and People can get in but they can’t get out easily.

All lanes are one-way going into campus. One lane being dedicated to people possessing parking passes and another to those who do not have parking passes.

After the games, lanes are one way going off campus and route accordingly.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Cohen not looking too bad, eh?

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Cohen not looking too bad, eh?

I don’t think he was personally directing traffic— but he might have hired away the smart person who was in charge of that at MSU.

 

[randystewart]

Let’s move the parking pass checkpoint barely on campus off Hwy 82 so we can back traffic up onto a four lane highway and I can get hit from behind by somebody going 60+ mph while browsing Sixpack on their phone.

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

Yea, that change today made no sense at all. It is naturally going to back up but would be way better to back up by Tennis/Softball than onto 182. Just an absolute idiotic decision to move the scanner away from the lot and down by the intersection

 

[Mr. Cook]

I don’t think he was personally directing traffic— but he might have hired away the smart person who was in charge of that at MSU.

Another “brain drain” challenge for the state (or the &tate)******

 

[Mr. Cook]

Eh. Just tell the guy this ain’t your first rodeo and you’re good.

But you’d think it’d be one way roads on game day.

Before games, State is a Roach Motel** and People can get in but they can’t get out easily.

All lanes are one-way going into campus. One lane being dedicated to people possessing parking passes and those who do not have parking passes.

After the games, lanes are one way going off campus and route accordingly.

“M&U Athletix —- it’s FANtastic”**********

 

[Kosko]

From what I have been told the Athletic Department does not control traffic at ballgames. Obviously the ones who do never come to a ball game!

 

[DoomSlayer]

I couldn’t believe it. It was was so stupid and clearly foreseeable.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I couldn’t believe it. It was was so stupid and clearly foreseeable.

I believe it because MSU stupidity is clearly foreseeable.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

So the premise of what they were doing is fine because if you don’t have a pass for lot B or BB you don’t need to go down that road so they’re just stopping people before they go that way. The problem was they were an absolute cluster17 scanning parking passes.

Also they need a sign that says that you need to have your parking pass out to scan. That was alot of the holdup too.

 

[graddawg]

So the premise of what they were doing is fine because if you don’t have a pass for lot B or BB you don’t need to go down that road so they’re just stopping people before they go that way. The problem was they were an absolute cluster17 scanning parking passes.

Also they need a sign that says that you need to have your parking pass out to scan. That was alot of the holdup too.

Also, we were in the left lane to go park in the lot by the dorms. But somebody who was clearly trying to go to the pay lot was not being let in to the right hand lane, which backed our lane up from the checkpoint all the way back down to the red light.

The guy refusing to let the person merge in seemed awful proud of himself….

 

[ETK99]

Cohen not looking too bad, eh?

Got nothing to do with the AD. It's the campus police who fall under Keenum.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Got nothing to do with the AD. It's the campus police who fall under Keenum.

You sheep go hard. I’ll give you that, no matter how dumb you are.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

You sheep go hard. I’ll give you that, no matter how dumb you are.

But he’s not wrong.

 

[Ozarkdawg]

Let’s move the parking pass checkpoint barely on campus off Hwy 82 so we can back traffic up onto a four lane highway and I can get hit from behind by somebody going 60+ mph while browsing Sixpack on their phone.

Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?

Actually, the same day as the ADA parking cluster at graduation, it was the same way going into campus that Friday AM graduation. Traffic was backed up into 82. They had the stop - direction guy at the 1st intersection after turning off 82. I recall stating how stupid that was that morning. Guess they didn't learn and it'll take an accident or 3 before they do.

 

[PhredPhantom]

The people in charge of planning for traffic and parking DON’T KNOW, DON’T CARE THAT THEY DON’T KNOW, AND DON’T CARE WHETHER IT WORKS OR NOT. They get paid the same either way and have absolute job security.

They also don’t care about slow and ineffective security for crowd lines because to Keenum, Selmon, and others, with their All-Access Passes, none of it applies to them - they just bypass it all and/or just sail on through; not like the rest of us peons. I’ll bet it’s good to be a sovereign citizen to whom rules don’t apply but I can only imagine.

 

[Ranchdawg]

Simple solution would be to allow traffic to flow in for games and allow people to park where their passes allow. Check the cars in the lots during the game and fine violators $250 to make extra money for the program.

 

[kired]

Lot 36...noted.

I arrived late for one game, ~15 minutes before kickoff. The attendant on the north entrance to lakeview dr was asleep in his chair. I’m sure you could slip that guy $20 and he’d let you in if he’s awake

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Got nothing to do with the AD. It's the campus police who fall under Keenum.

What do you expect with a lifelong Bureaucrat.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Simple solution would be to allow traffic to flow in for games and allow people to park where their passes allow. Check the cars in the lots during the game and fine violators $250 to make extra money for the program

How would you check the cars? The parking passes are electronic now.

 

[Ranchdawg]

How would you check the cars? The parking passes are electronic now.

Aren't they scanned when you enter the parking area? It sounds like visiting team fans are the main reason for all these gate keepers stopping up traffic. Since the passes are electronic why not provide the recommended time to the purchaser with the route to their parking area based on where they live? Stagering times would help as well. Parking isn't as big a problem for tailgating fans. We used to go 3 hours before the games so it wasn't as bad. Before that we had an RV spot so we were there way before and after games. I miss those days!

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Aren't they scanned when you enter the parking area? It sounds like visiting team fans are the main reason for all these gate keepers stopping up traffic. Since the passes are electronic why not provide the recommended time to the purchaser with the route to their parking area based on where they live? Stagering times would help as well. Parking isn't as big a problem for tailgating fans. We used to go 3 hours before the games so it wasn't as bad. Before that we had an RV spot so we were there way before and after games. I miss those days!

Wait, are you talking about football?

 

[Ranchdawg]

Wait, are you talking about football?

I assumed football but may be basketball. Went back and looked and it sounds like both. Parking was not bad for basketball games when we went to games.

 

[TimberBeast]

I arrived late for one game, ~15 minutes before kickoff. The attendant on the north entrance to lakeview dr was asleep in his chair. I’m sure you could slip that guy $20 and he’d let you in if he’s awake

Done it before, it works.

 

[Maroon13]

I went to the Pitt bball game. I did my usual that I do for basketball and baseball. Sneak in the back door on Lee blvd and park Zacharias village lot. Easy in and out to ZP, no blocked road.

However this year for football. They did have Bailey Howell blocked at Lee blvd. They were trying to make everyone turn left onto Wingo. I would have to show the gate keeper that I had ZP parking, to pass through. Backed up traffic on Lee for no reason. Anyways, Bailey Howell at Lee hasn't been blocked for basketball. Just fyi.

The ingress and egress plans need to be reconsidered for next year.

 

[rankindog86]

All of the new traffic flow patterns and roadway decisions have been terrible. The changes to Stone Blvd. and making Bailey Howell Dr. one lane are the biggest head scratchers! Who ever made all these decisions should absolutely be fired.