Speaking of the Twitter feed, did anyone else notice the tweet from user skinny_penus that they let through?
The bottle necks are a planning issue originating from the original architectural layout. They f'd it up royally. It will never be fixed. You go from 100'wide concourses to 20' wide concourses throughout the stadium. The gates are placed in shitty locations. There are four gates, three of which are in the same end zone! Go walk around the Braves new stadium, it feels like your walking through the Braves hall of fame. Walk around the MB stadium and it feels like your walking through the Georgia Dome.
"Figure it out"? What in the hell have they been doing the entire time? This wasn't a surprise stadium that was plopped down in a couple of weeks. Plans were approved. Putting in escalators with no consideration of the crush of people at the bottom is a failure. Most stadiums have ramps up and down to handle a flood of people. Is the "figure it out" going to be retroactively building ramps? I've been to Neyland several times with 104,000 other people and never once felt crowded in on the concourses because there is plenty of room to walk and wide ramps to exit - you could have two way car traffic down Neyland's ramps if you decided to do it. Gates are wide open to walk out. (Neyland's only problem is ancient bathrooms and the bench seat numbers are too close together - I always do chairbacks there)
The 5 whys ended up with "poor design"
Good point. Probably should have ended it with "Because Arthur Blank is a moron"
Good point. Probably should have ended it with "Because Arthur Blank is a moron"
Poor design is making a long escalator down to a crowed area that takes people down at a constant speed. When they get to the bottom, there is no where to get off or go so as the escalator keeps bringing folks down, the crush gets worse and worse until folks get hurt or killed.
Now, stick with me here, if they had put wide spiral ramps in each corner leading directly out the gate (like Bryant Denny - see construction photo) folks travel down the ramps comfortably at their own pace right out the door. Simple.
In the seat licensing meeting I asked if we get first dibs on Chick-fil-A kickoffs, Peach Bowls, concerts, Super Bowls, NCAA final four, and NCAA championships. They said you will get everything except Super Bowls and NCAA championships. I was told an absolute "Yes" to these kickoff games. My wife's company has seats right next to ours, we got them side by side, and they were told the exact same thing. The contract reads we "have opportunities" to other events. It doesn't spell it out, but the problem is we and others we're all told face to face that we will have more than the Falcons and Atl-united, specifically GT-UT and FSU-UA.
Yes, I didn't have a problem with it. Neyland is a series of ramps too that I had no problem with. So is South Carolina. Did you get dizzy or something and faint?
