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We stayed the entire game, so half the crowd was already gone from the lots by the time we made it to the car, and yet leaving Hilton parking was the worst it’s ever been with no discernible traffic plan seen.

Not even mad, it was just hilariously bad considering the PR attempts of a new “plan”.
 
cstrunk said:
Not staging people in the grass lots or letting them park early is the most absurd and stupid policy, especially for big games like Iowa. Who on God's green earth thinks it's a better idea to let traffic back up into a parking lot on city streets and eventually Hwy 30? Telling fans not to arrive before the lots open is even more dumb, you want 30,000 people arriving at the same time?

JFC.
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It was stupid they didn't kick all the "staging" out yesterday. They said they were going to and didn't so now they will actually have a real mess next weekend when people do the same thing in SIGNIFICANTLY higher quantities and then they try to tell everyone you can't stage.

Now where it is ridiculously ******* stupid is to force all the staff to be there at 7am for the staff meeting and sitting outside for an hour at their lots staring at traffic you aren't letting into said lots.

Set up 4th for "early" parking and turn away people who don't or won't buy the early parking pass. I would spend another few hundred bucks no question to get early parking access.
 
GetAwesome said:
We stayed the entire game, so half the crowd was already gone from the lots by the time we made it to the car, and yet leaving Hilton parking was the worst it’s ever been with no discernible traffic plan seen.

Not even mad, it was just hilariously bad considering the PR attempts of a new “plan”.
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We also stayed for the whole game and got right out of Hilton with no problem. We exited out the SE exit, went south on university and made it to Hwy 30 in record time.
 
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There were a lot of people on Mortensen that need some clue bats. University was right turn ONLY, but everyone decided to queue in the right lane rather than use both lanes. This backed up everything and it took me 20 minutes just to get onto Mortensen from Ash Ave. I had a bunch of people pissed at me when I zipped passed 30 cars and did exactly what the signage wanted everyone to do.
 
We headed to the car at the start of the 4th quarter, hoping to get out and beat the traffic. We parked in S5 and like always spent the next half hour or more just trying to get on university. Not sure why an engineer school can't figure out how to get people walking to the GA lots to not cross at the corner of 16th and university. By allowing people to cross right there, it creates a bottleneck of cars trying to leave the lot, and around the stadium. Build a pedestrian bridge and use fences to stop people from crossing on the street at that point.
 
Just to play devil's advocate, all those annoying pedestrians headed to the GA lots are probably saying "why should I have to walk an extra half mile to my car to use the bridge? Traffic is already at a stand-still so I can just cross right here and straight-shot to my car."

Bottom line is everyone just needs to chill and be nice to each other. Everyone wants to get home and everyone is doing the best they can. It doesn't help anyone to be an *******.
 
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CycloneDaddy said:
Total fail on the exit plan for the public grass lots. S 16th street was a parking lot.
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They did what everyone here said they should do and forced everyone to go to Duff. I left mid 4th quarter and had a good spot in the lot, so I was able to get out in a reasonable time (still 20-30 mins from lot exit to getting on Hwy 30). From your response, I'm guessing it got way worse over time. The issue is you're bottlenecking all the grass lots to a max rate of 10-15 cars per traffic light cycle at Duff because ultimately it all has to condense down to one lane to turn right onto Duff. Maybe if they could get a cop to control that intersection and give more time to the right turn vs the straight through east-west traffic it would help.
 
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agrabes said:
They did what everyone here said they should do and forced everyone to go to Duff. I left mid 4th quarter and had a good spot in the lot, so I was able to get out in a reasonable time (still 20-30 mins from lot exit to getting on Hwy 30). From your response, I'm guessing it got way worse over time. The issue is you're bottlenecking all the grass lots to a max rate of 10-15 cars per traffic light cycle at Duff because ultimately it all has to condense down to one lane to turn right onto Duff. Maybe if they could get a cop to control that intersection and give more time to the right turn vs the straight through east-west traffic it would help.
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The city should have a cop right there at 16th and Duff, shut off the traffic lights and manually push the traffic out to 30.
 
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besserheimerphat said:
Just to play devil's advocate, all those annoying pedestrians headed to the GA lots are probably saying "why should I have to walk an extra half mile to my car to use the bridge? Traffic is already at a stand-still so I can just cross right here and straight-shot to my car."

Bottom line is everyone just needs to chill and be nice to each other. Everyone wants to get home and everyone is doing the best they can. It doesn't help anyone to be an *******.
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The problem is that they are stopping traffic to let those people through. Build a bridge right there that goes over the street, then not allow people to walk across at that point. That is the bottleneck, people trying to cross right there, slows everyone already in their car from moving out of the area.
 
somecyguy said:
I had a bunch of people pissed at me when I zipped passed 30 cars and did exactly what the signage wanted everyone to do.
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Too many Iowans don’t understand the zipper merge concept and freak out like you’re cutting in line when you use both lanes like you’re supposed to
 
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1SEIACLONE said:
We headed to the car at the start of the 4th quarter, hoping to get out and beat the traffic. We parked in S5 and like always spent the next half hour or more just trying to get on university. Not sure why an engineer school can't figure out how to get people walking to the GA lots to not cross at the corner of 16th and university. By allowing people to cross right there, it creates a bottleneck of cars trying to leave the lot, and around the stadium. Build a pedestrian bridge and use fences to stop people from crossing on the street at that point.
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As someone else also in s5, part of the problem is also the intersection before the main one. You'll have the pedestrian traffic coming off that sidewalk between s4 and s5 (which was made a lot worse when they put the students in that corner), plus the cars from s1-4 will also often not let anyone in coming from the north. So some games you end up at a standstill if you're coming from s5-7 until those lots clear out more.
 
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3TrueFans said:
I’d just get used to the fact that if you park close to the stadium it may take longer to get out. We don’t need to be spending millions of dollars on a bridge so people don’t have to sit in their car for 30 minutes 6 times a year.
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Going to a college football game is an all-day event. Accept it. People spend 8 hours beforehand sitting in the lot, then 4 hours watching the game, but get bent out of shape about 30 minutes after the game.
 
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We are in C4, left to the south. The only issue was getting out of the lot itself. S Lots exiting on one side of Jack Trice Way(4th st) then CD lots exiting to the same exit then pedestrian traffic with Zero, yes Zero people helping guide traffic out of the lots. This has to be on the Athletic department, you have to have traffic control there. From there you had to go north or South on University, you could not go straight. State police from that intersection all the way to 30. No left turn onto 16th. No traffic allowed back toward Jack Trice. Exit onto University from Highway 30 westbound closed to traffic. Took me 15 minutes to get out of the lot, then less than 5 to get to 30.
 
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3TrueFans said:
I’d just get used to the fact that if you park close to the stadium it may take longer to get out. We don’t need to be spending millions of dollars on a bridge so people don’t have to sit in their car for 30 minutes 6 times a year.
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I doubt it would cost millions, we do not need something like the other bridge over 30, just something that forces people to get over university without having the traffic to stop and let them pass. If the plan was to get people to use the current bridge, and walk to the GA lots it's not working.
 
agrabes said:
They did what everyone here said they should do and forced everyone to go to Duff. I left mid 4th quarter and had a good spot in the lot, so I was able to get out in a reasonable time (still 20-30 mins from lot exit to getting on Hwy 30). From your response, I'm guessing it got way worse over time. The issue is you're bottlenecking all the grass lots to a max rate of 10-15 cars per traffic light cycle at Duff because ultimately it all has to condense down to one lane to turn right onto Duff. Maybe if they could get a cop to control that intersection and give more time to the right turn vs the straight through east-west traffic it would help.
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That's the biggest issue with 16th is its starts with 3 lanes in 1 direction then turns into 2 at grand. Then it's a struggle to get over to the far right to turn right on Duff. I couldn't get over in time so i assumed I could just keep going to Dayton and get on to 30 there but nope they blocked access to that interchange ge so had to turn around and go back to Duff to take a left this time. Really need better way to funnel the traffic on 16th to get out to 30 as its like a parking lot going from basically 3 lane ton1 by Duff.
 
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1SEIACLONE said:
I doubt it would cost millions, we do not need something like the other bridge over 30, just something that forces people to get over university without having the traffic to stop and let them pass. If the plan was to get people to use the current bridge, and walk to the GA lots it's not working.
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Ok hundreds of thousands, still seems not worth for a few minutes of waiting.
 
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