This is what happens when you have way too much land from killing all the indigenous people. You pour asphalt everywhere instead of building a parking garage.
Even more amazing when you realize that there is a train line that runs within a half mile of home plate and there isn't a stop, much less a pedestrian pathway.
time consuming but with event parking everyone else leaves over time so it’s one of the few left, would be awful for general parking though for sure with people coming and going
This is a thing at the disney operation in florida. They have shuttles, a monorail, and no shit actual paddle boats to transport people from the massive desert of parking lots to the actual theme parks.
It'd be legit hilarious if we solved transit and then built symbolic pickups outside sports facilities for tailgating. Like just a ritual parking lot where no actual parking happens.
"We want to make it a green parking lot so we're going to add a row of trees around a bunch of smaller lots, ultimately making the footprint three times as large."
It's almost impressive they managed to come up with a design worse than an asphalt ocean.
These parking lots are a good idea, of they were 1/10th the size and located around metro stops away from the stadium.
I imagine some of these drivers are the kinds of people who will literally use their car to drive a block or move from one mini-mall shop to another. Palpatine.png
I love baseball, but MLB stadiums (especially newer ones, but all of them are covered in ads for ghoulish companies) feel like grotesque nexuses for some of the worst part of capital. The Rangers' new park has Lockheed Martin ads, the Nats have Raytheon ads, the Mariners have Boeing ads, the Astros (lol 🗑️) have Haliburton ads, etc. Hell, they started putting ads on the sleeves of the players' fucking jerseys now. The Texas Rangers, brought to you by Energy Transfer Operator™️. Remember Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest? I'm almost surprised none of the teams are sponsored by TigerSwan or Blackwater. The NFL might be a more overt brain damaging blood sport, but the MLB is still America's Past Time™️ in the sheer saturation of advertising some of the worst parts of this hellhole corporate orgy disguised as a country.
If it's any consolation the MLB has the most stadiums without a corporate sponsor name among pro sports. 10 out of 30 stadiums still have their original names, as opposed to the NFL which has 6 out of 30 and the NBA which has 2(!) out of 29. It will be a cold day in hell before Yankees Stadium or Fenway Park give up their storied names. I just really hate referring to ball parks by their sponsors. Imagine saying "I got tickets to the game at Crypto.com Arena!" and not cringing.
The TV experience is even worse, with ads superimposed on the screen. In that regard the NHL is worse. It’s all the main reason I’ve lost a lot of interest in sports over the years.
This reminds me of how Americans were confused looking at the MCG where Taylor Swift performed in Melbourne, Australia. It doesn't need to be surrounded by parking because it's serviced by at least two train stations, trams, and is walking distance from the CBD (Downtown for Americans)
Down the road from our city’s giant parking lot and sports complex there’s a part of town the city forgot. Mostly junkyards and dilapidated building. There’s a diy punk venue with a beautiful vegetable garden / smoking patio out back. The cops don’t seem to go to that part of town so they’re left alone.
I always wonder why they don't build parking garages near these things. It must be way more expensive but you could combine with a mall like the NFL Patriots did, or even share parking lots with a college like the Bills do.
These acres of parking lots only used 8x/year are keeping a huge area ugly and terrible.