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Posted by Charles G on Thu Apr 7 09:29:10 2011, in response to Re: Football fans don't take mass transit?!, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Apr 7 06:17:07 2011. My sense is that you are over-estimating the percentage of cars arriving early. Two things that make me think this.1. Traffic. If most of the cars were arriving early, traffic around the stadiums would be at its worst two hours before the game. Yet traffic is generally at its worst about 15-30 minutes before the game. By definition, that must be the peak arrival time. 2. Geometry. If a parking lot around a building "looks" half-full -- to me, meaning that cars fill the parking lot to being half way to the edge of the lot, then the lot is really only about 25% full. (75% of the spaces will be more than 1/2 way from the stadium to the edge of the lot). If a parking lot "looks" 33% full, then it is really only 11% full. Tailgating is not nearly as big a phenomena as one might think. It only seems that way because it is (1) glorified by the networks during their pre-game coverage; and (2) the majority of people arriving at the stadium have to walk past the tailgaters as the move from their cars in the outer parts of the lot towards the actual stadium. |
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