Exiting MBS

I was in 311 - getting to the seats was ridiculously bad and a fire hazard. The damn coke machines and traffic jam

Leaving was also bad they routed us from 311 to the escalator at 201 but then wouldn't let us go down it and had to go back. All the UT and Tech fans were ready to fight and just basically pulled down the ropes. Then exiting was bad too they had to call supervisor to open the main gates. What a cluster....
 
erikill said:
I was in 311 - getting to the seats was ridiculously bad and a fire hazard. The damn coke machines and traffic jam

Leaving was also bad they routed us from 311 to the escalator at 201 but then wouldn't let us go down it and had to go back. All the UT and Tech fans were ready to fight and just basically pulled down the ropes. Then exiting was bad too they had to call supervisor to open the main gates. What a cluster....
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I assume that they had to shut down the use of the escalators because it was dumping people into the logjam of other people to the point it was going to injure someone.
 
coit said:
I assume that they had to shut down the use of the escalators because it was dumping people into the logjam of other people to the point it was going to injure someone.
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Possibly but the escalator was still running - everyone said the falcons game was nowhere near this bad.
 
erikill said:
Possibly but the escalator was still running - everyone said the falcons game was nowhere near this bad.
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It was a preseason game. From pictures I've seen it was sparsely attended relative to the full house Monday night.
 
erikill said:
Possibly but the escalator was still running - everyone said the falcons game was nowhere near this bad.
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I don't think either Falcons game had this many people (actual, not tickets distributed), and particularly not this many people who all stayed until the end of the game.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
I don't think either Falcons game had this many people (actual, not tickets distributed), and particularly not this many people who all stayed until the end of the game.

JRjr
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Speaking of which. I would say close to a third of the stadium left early, which boggled my mind.

Also, that means the exiting could have been even worse...
 
Graybeard Jacket said:
I said amongst the masses trying find an exit that I had no interest in attending another regular season game there. I would consider going for a NC game.
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While waiting in a concession line before the game, I told a fellow Tech fan "all things considered, I'd rather be at Bobby Dodd." I guess the big stage is cool (except we almost always lose on big stages with all eyes on us), but from a basic "attending the game" standpoint, BDS is way easier and better.

JRjr
 
coit said:
I assume that they had to shut down the use of the escalators because it was dumping people into the logjam of other people to the point it was going to injure someone.
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I think the escalators might have had too much weight on them. They were controlling how many people could get on. I saw a couple of Kone people (elevator/escalator manufacturer) at the escalators giving instructions.
 
Architorture23 said:
I think the escalators might have had too much weight on them. They were controlling how many people could get on. I saw a couple of Kone people (elevator/escalator manufacturer) at the escalators giving instructions.
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vapspwi said:
While waiting in a concession line before the game, I told a fellow Tech fan "all things considered, I'd rather be at Bobby Dodd." I guess the big stage is cool (except we almost always lose on big stages with all eyes on us), but from a basic "attending the game" standpoint, BDS is way easier and better.

JRjr
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Agree
 
vapspwi said:
Stats were also suspect - I think we had a ~7 minute drive in the 2nd quarter that they listed as a 2:45 drive.

JRjr
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+1
I couldn't figure out where the stat numbers were coming from — they were frequently obviously completely wrong.
 
Architorture23 said:
I think the escalators might have had too much weight on them. They were controlling how many people could get on. I saw a couple of Kone people (elevator/escalator manufacturer) at the escalators giving instructions.
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I'm not an engineer but is that a design flaw. Shouldn't escalators put in a stadium be prepared to handle crowds at entrance and exit times? Screwed us royally trying to get out. The entire exit strategy was a cluster for anyone who didn't leave before the game ended. Seemed like 90% of the crowd was headed toward the same exit and parking at the Gulch/Phillips/Centennial area. Maybe this will change when the Georgia Dome is removed. Does that area become parking?
 
cyclejacket said:
I'm not an engineer but is that a design flaw. Shouldn't escalators put in a stadium be prepared to handle crowds at entrance and exit times? Screwed us royally trying to get out. The entire exit strategy was a cluster for anyone who didn't leave before the game ended. Seemed like 90% of the crowd was headed toward the same exit and parking at the Gulch/Phillips/Centennial area. Maybe this will change when the Georgia Dome is removed. Does that area become parking?
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not necessarily a design flaw... everything has a limit. you can very often "fit" more people on an elevator than it can hold weight-wise. egress is designed to get everyone out within a certain timeframe in an emergency. it could be that if they had just shut the escalators down and used them as stairs (sorry for the convenience) they would have egressed more people faster. the weight may only be compromising the conveyance capabilities and not the structural capabilities.

and if its anything like a typical job, they probably had the "correct" escalators spec'd and then had to "value engineer" down to the "get-by" escalators because it saved $1 million.
 
cyclejacket said:
I'm not an engineer but is that a design flaw. Shouldn't escalators put in a stadium be prepared to handle crowds at entrance and exit times? Screwed us royally trying to get out. The entire exit strategy was a cluster for anyone who didn't leave before the game ended. Seemed like 90% of the crowd was headed toward the same exit and parking at the Gulch/Phillips/Centennial area. Maybe this will change when the Georgia Dome is removed. Does that area become parking?
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They did the same thing with the escalators at the US Open. So not something unique to MBS, whatever it is.
 
Where we were told to wait on an escalator it was clearly to avoid too many people getting to the bottom and having no room to get off and move safely away.
 
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