Have you ever been to an away football game that operates remote shuttles? It really is no big deal...just ask anyone that has attended a Notre Dame football game [or Rutgers, etc.]...and ND regularly has 80K in attendance. Some of you must be really pathetic at solving problems. Although I rarely drive into Oakland for any reason, when I do, it only takes a couple of shots to find free on-street parking and have never been stuck in any sort of traffic--ever. And for those of you that suggest that Heinz Field is close and convenient for students living on campus--perhaps you should follow your own advice and park downtown and take PAT to Oakland. Hail to Pitt!
VERY much under the New Stadium radar
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Have you ever been to an away football game that operates remote shuttles? It really is no big deal...just ask anyone that has attended a Notre Dame football game [or Rutgers, etc.]...and ND regularly has 80K in attendance. Some of you must be really pathetic at solving problems. Although I rarely drive into Oakland for any reason, when I do, it only takes a couple of shots to find free on-street parking and have never been stuck in any sort of traffic--ever. And for those of you that suggest that Heinz Field is close and convenient for students living on campus--perhaps you should follow your own advice and park downtown and take PAT to Oakland. Hail to Pitt!
Yes, parking in any garage takes forever to get out. I have had problems with that at many Pittsburgh sporting events. For Pitt bball, I either park on the street in South Oakland or on the street behind Trees and it takes me 5 minutes.........10 minutes at the very most to get out of Oakland after games. I sail right through, not even an issue.
I can't speak to nd. I will say that I would imagine everything on game day revolves around the football game. That wouldn't be the case in Oakland. It also looks like the lots are about a mile away from the stadium...very walkable. Where are there large walkable lots a mile away from a new stadium? It is also flat. Big difference walking a mile and a half flat as opposed to a mile up to the top of cardiac hill.
I find street parking in Oakland...but forget that on a game day.
Third, why would u take PAT when the students have shuttles that take ten minutes to get back to campus?
So, have ample parking for everybody and make shuttles available for students who want to use them, or have next to zero parking available nearby and shuttle in everybody who wants to go from miles away?
Heinz Field sounds better with just about every 'idea' tossed out.
Heinz Field sounds better with just about every 'idea' tossed out.
Well presumably the shuttle bus route that Pitt would implement would drop off fans at the stadium, wherever it would by hypothetically located--just like every other school that does the same. It really is not an issue to implement, should that be something the school chose to employ. I actually lived to attend and drive to games at Pitt Stadium [did you?]...back in the day when Pitt actually won football games. If you are clueless, yes, parking could be a challenge. If you had half a brain, it was always pretty easy to find parking--often for free. Very few college venues have plenty of surface lot parking next to or adjacent to their football stadiums....even those schools that are not urban in nature. Go to a game at UNC or UVA...you cannot park anywhere close to those stadiums. Want post game traffic mayhem, go to a game at WVU, PSU or plenty of other places....it is far worse than anything ever experienced in Oakland.
Read a little closer, the point about taking PAT into Oakland was that it is cheap and easy to do--and readily available. Back in the day of Pitt Stadium, PAT had multiple special routes into and out of Oakland on game days to assist in getting people in and out of the games. If students can take the free shuttle downtown to football games...Pitt fans could do the reverse and take mass transit from anywhere in the Pittsburgh area into Oakland and avoid driving and parking. Comprehend now? I live in Philadelphia and would not under any circumstances consider driving to the sports complex here--I take the subway in and out...and save tons of time and aggravation--not to mention the green effect of using mass transit. Of course this is all likely just silly academic chatter...but parking, traffic and ingress/egress to Oakland is a VERY OVER BLOWN issue. Hail to Pitt!
Yep. Available land and and a much more economically viable alternative to a massive stadium investment in Oakland at a time when university funding in the Commonwealth is dwindling is the real issue. Once Pitt Stadium was torn down, the genie was out of the bottle for the foreseeable future.
When I go to Ohio State games I park a mile away near the med school campus. It isn't that big of a deal to walk, but that's the culture of a mega sized school....you walk and then walk more.
I disagree but it depends where you're starting out from. WVU is an easy drive from Pittsburgh down I-79. PSU is a relatively easy drive Rt. 22 east- 220 - I-99 - 322 something like that. Notre Dame is all highway from here. Turnpike to Ohio Turnpike to Indiana turnpike. WVU and PSU are so close I've never needed hotel options. I've stayed in Howe or Elkhart when Pitt's played at ND. For the Clemson game, I'm staying in Greenville.
What makes you think the hospitals close down. Wrong ! Clinic offices yes but hospitals ? No !!!
Well like many Pitt fans, you obviously have a very parochial view of the world--not all of us live in Pittsburgh or in the Pittsburgh suburbs. For those fans that fly [I fly to nearly all games], State College and Morgantown are very hard to get there [as is VaTech and Clemson]. Getting a nice hotel in State College, Morgantown or South Bend--is by definition, next to impossible. My idea of a good away game is not staying in some suburban Red Roof Inn type of place. The traffic into and out of State College, Morgantown and South Bend are all bad. When I travel to State College, I do it as a day trip--and likely will do it next season when we visit [unless I bite the bullet and pay $300+ a night for a crap place in State College]. Morgantown, I fly to Pittsburgh and stay in Pittsburgh and drive in and out. For South Bend, I fly into Chicago, stay there and drive in and out. As for the trips to Clemson and OSU, I am staying in Clemson and Stillwater...as I want the full weekend experience of being in the college town--but the choices were far from nice. Hail to Pitt!
If you look waaaaaaay up high over your head you may just see the point of that post flying by.
When my wife and I attend Pitt games we park and pre-grame in Oakland, then WALK to Heinz field. It's only 4.3 miles!!
I-376 is beautiful during autumn and you couldn't ask for a more straight shot to the stadium....plus, very few hills. The only problem is sometimes cars don't see us when we merge onto the bridge...and man, those cars go fast!
This might sound crazy but neither of us can afford another DUI, so it is what it is.
I-376 is beautiful during autumn and you couldn't ask for a more straight shot to the stadium....plus, very few hills. The only problem is sometimes cars don't see us when we merge onto the bridge...and man, those cars go fast!
This might sound crazy but neither of us can afford another DUI, so it is what it is.
Taking that you are a Mountie and your wife is married to one???
If true, this is highly believable.
Probably quite common too.
Enjoy the games and hey...
Let's be safe out there !!!!
He is fibbing.They don't walk. He drives the tractor . . . the one with the WV license plate: EE I EE I O. In years gone by he parked it next to Pitt Stadium. If you attended games in the 70's perhaps you recall.
It was nice when we had real rivalries.
She's 6'6" 290. I put her in orange and have her walk AGAINST traffic. That usually does the trick!
FWIW - yes, she went to Pitt and lived in towers.....on the BOTTOM floor!
You did see where I wrote, "...it depends on where you're starting out from...." or did you miss that?
It must be brutal for you to mingle with us plebs during football season. Have you considered helicoptering in to the stadiums?
