Stadium Construction 8/7/22
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Hemp rope hurt my hands, and I couldn't smoke it when I got to my seat. -2/10
I'm straight, married, and a dude and I'd probably miss an ISU game to cling on tightly to the Rock.
There is truth to this, but I also remember that there once was parking right to the west of JTS before the practice facility and practice fields were built. There was parking where the Stark Performance Center now stands. The football program (and all the sports programs, too) is (are) better because of those facilities. I do miss those close parking spots that we used in my youth, but before the upgrades to the program we were often celebrating things like sneaking up on Nebraska in 1992 as opposed to challenging for conference titles and bowl bids.
If Clyde Williams would have been torn down and replaced as some other threads have mentioned, where would we all park and where would all those students in those new dorms be housed?
I get your point, but the trade off for electrical hookups and assigned spots seems like a good deal for a few more blocks of walking.
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And S6-S7-S8 on the east side didn't even exist until 2002. That was all grass.
Give me the Rock, JP. I got passed at least three times a season when I was a student and it was a lot more scary than the Rock delivering me to my seat from a helicopter.
Anything is possible with enough money and engineering. A lot of time those cantilever truss bridges that go across major shipping channels end up being dismantled piece by piece to avoid restricting shipping lanes. Been on two different jobs where they've done that.
Awhile ago they were going to dismantle a whole bridge and reassemble it because Bezos is having a yacht built nearby and the bridge couldnt handle it. Apparently there was enough uproar about that it didn't happen, but apparently its possible
Still likely on the cards, as that bridge can (and has been previously) partially disassembled (the middle piece removed) although there is a strict max of 2x per annum. The shipyard has received threats of i.a. vandalism (Rotterdammers aren't exactly the warm and cuddliest folks in the world), so is also considering other options on how to build the yacht
Source: live in the Netherlands
The tailgating was great, for those few that went, back when the entire west and south sides next to JTS were grass lots.
And parking so easy, for those that went, back when you could show up at kickoff and still find a spot south of Hilton.
But thankfully that’s no longer the case.
If executed well, the entertainment district will enhance gameday at JTS, not diminish. It’s on pollard to get it right.
Read this a couple of days ago: Yacht
tl:dr - They didn't need to take apart the bridge. They just didn't install the masts on the yacht and tugged it to the next ship yard for completion.
