G17 Parking after UGA Game?

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How was getting out of G17 for you all after Georgia game? We did something different parking wise.

Unfortunately, we have parked in G17 the last few seasons. We were confident the traffic situation was going to be fixed, but essentially lied to. It has been no better and actually has seemed worse. Vehicles have been trapped trying to exit onto Lake Avenue and Terrace Avenue, both of which are one way streets. For the life of me I don not know how city planning officials even approved these structures bound by one way streets, other than the power and the money the university can flex.

Terrace being a one way leads to a left hand turn onto Lake and Lake does not move at all. The officer at this intersection allows one car at a time straight towards Cumberland Avenue. Most of the time there is not an officer at this location, but it does no good since Lake doesn't move. Vehicles literally trapped. I believe there is no effort to allow more than one vehicle at a time from Lake Avenue onto Volunteer Blvd. This is the main culprit for everyone stuck at a standstill in G17 for up to hours at a time after games. It is mindboggling the total failure of campus police, the Sherriff's Department and Knoxville Police of being able to alleviate this public safety issue. Many have called the university and local law enforcement about this issue, even in real time while stuck. We've been told particularly by staff with UT Campus Police that nothing can be done because of the volume of vehicles in a short window of time. This is a lie and total malpractice of duties. Nothing is being done because they do not care. It is that simply.

The easy fix is to have more personnel at Volunteer Blvd allowing traffic to flow off of Lake Avenue and more personnel at Joe Johnson intersection and Neyland intersection all communicating to allow a steady flow through this stated path. It is simply a left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing situation. Doing nothing to allow more than one car off of Lake onto Volunteer is pathetic.

Whoever is in charge of this from the university's side and the campus and law enforcement need to pass the torch to others that can make easy simple changes in the time of flow of traffic.

At a minimum we'd like our money back and moved to another garage, but this won't happen because they don't care.
 
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I agree. We were in G17 2 years ago and it was terrible. Some games an officer would send you one way and another game they would block our exit and send us another way. It was different every game, but terrible each time, White Ave was better for us last year. I got a G11 pass this year but sold it. I knew it would be bad. I bought a pass for the credit union behind the mellow mushroom off the strip, which cost more than the G11 pass. Officers let us exit quickly from there to be sure no traffic impedes the Children's Hospital.
 
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This is the second thread regarding this in a few weeks, so reminded me to engage with the UTAD. Just zapped an email to the generic UTAD ticket sales office and then our sales rep POC with a brief synopsis of this issue and asked them if they could provide with someone in the AD, campus police, etc. that could discuss this issue with us about future strategy, solutions, etc. Not holding my breath on any sort of meaningful response, but will share on here if I get anything back from them.
 
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madbamahater said:
How was getting out of G17 for you all after Georgia game? We did something different parking wise.

Unfortunately, we have parked in G17 the last few seasons. We were confident the traffic situation was going to be fixed, but essentially lied to. It has been no better and actually has seemed worse. Vehicles have been trapped trying to exit onto Lake Avenue and Terrace Avenue, both of which are one way streets. For the life of me I don not know how city planning officials even approved these structures bound by one way streets, other than the power and the money the university can flex.

Terrace being a one way leads to a left hand turn onto Lake and Lake does not move at all. The officer at this intersection allows one car at a time straight towards Cumberland Avenue. Most of the time there is not an officer at this location, but it does no good since Lake doesn't move. Vehicles literally trapped. I believe there is no effort to allow more than one vehicle at a time from Lake Avenue onto Volunteer Blvd. This is the main culprit for everyone stuck at a standstill in G17 for up to hours at a time after games. It is mindboggling the total failure of campus police, the Sherriff's Department and Knoxville Police of being able to alleviate this public safety issue. Many have called the university and local law enforcement about this issue, even in real time while stuck. We've been told particularly by staff with UT Campus Police that nothing can be done because of the volume of vehicles in a short window of time. This is a lie and total malpractice of duties. Nothing is being done because they do not care. It is that simply.

The easy fix is to have more personnel at Volunteer Blvd allowing traffic to flow off of Lake Avenue and more personnel at Joe Johnson intersection and Neyland intersection all communicating to allow a steady flow through this stated path. It is simply a left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing situation. Doing nothing to allow more than one car off of Lake onto Volunteer is pathetic.

Whoever is in charge of this from the university's side and the campus and law enforcement need to pass the torch to others that can make easy simple changes in the time of flow of traffic.

At a minimum we'd like our money back and moved to another garage, but this won't happen because they don't care.
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UTPD has nothing to do with. KPD is in charge and they have tons of officers including helicopter involved. They monitor every road out and alleviate the heaviest traffic first. It’s different every game becuase of difference in crowd size and interstate traffic as well.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
UTPD has nothing to do with. KPD is in charge and they have tons of officers including helicopter involved. They monitor every road out and alleviate the heaviest traffic first. It’s different every game becuase of difference in crowd size and interstate traffic as well.
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It is absolutely not different each game. G17 is absolute grind lock each and every game, every year. It's inexcusable. If it is the KPD they are the single most worse at handling traffic in the country, or they purposefully neglect the traffic at these 2 garages. It's one of the two.

I've been going to games over 40 years and it hasn't been until the last 2/3 seasons this has happened. Something changed to cause it and something needs to change to fix it.
 
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To make the premium seats work, White Danny has allocated 2, sometimes 3 parking passes to those ticket holders, relegating most fans to the hinter lands of the garages on 11th Street, which sucks, or the garages at Terrace and Lake Avenues, which really suck, since there is no traffic control to pull the vehicles out of the garages since there is nowhere for the vehicles to go once they exit the garage, the one lane thing on Cumberland Avenue is such a Knoxville thing, form over substance and the fire trucks can't even turn left off Cumberland Avenue, not enough room.

The fan experience continues to deteriorate on the Tennessee campus while the costs to participate continue to escalate, but I don't forsee any more hard sell outs this year, with Oklahoma perhaps getting close to full, but the rest of the home schedule and the buy games won't see a full house,
 
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TartanTurff said:
To make the premium seats work, White Danny has allocated 2, sometimes 3 parking passes to those ticket holders, relegating most fans to the hinter lands of the garages on 11th Street, which sucks, or the garages at Terrace and Lake Avenues, which really suck, since there is no traffic control to pull the vehicles out of the garages since there is nowhere for the vehicles to go once they exit the garage, the one lane thing on Cumberland Avenue is such a Knoxville thing, form over substance and the fire trucks can't even turn left off Cumberland Avenue, not enough room.

The fan experience continues to deteriorate on the Tennessee campus while the costs to participate continue to escalate, but I don't forsee any more hard sell outs this year, with Oklahoma perhaps getting close to full, but the rest of the home schedule and the buy games won't see a full house,
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All they simply have to do is allow traffic from Volunteer to move for a much longer amount of time and as it is moving allow cars from Lake out onto Volunteer for much longer. It is just very simple
 
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The fact that we are like 2 blocks from Alcoa hwy -> 40 and have to basically drive back to the stadium is mind-numbing. There has to be a way to get traffic flowing to Volunteer- Cumberland-Alcoa-40 right there.

We didn't move from our spot for 1 hour in G17, directly across from the exit, and it took 2.5 hours to get to Farragut last week.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
The fact that we are like 2 blocks from Alcoa hwy -> 40 and have to basically drive back to the stadium is mind-numbing. There has to be a way to get traffic flowing to Volunteer- Cumberland-Alcoa-40 right there.

We didn't move from our spot for 1 hour in G17, directly across from the exit, and it took 2.5 hours to get to Farragut last week.
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It is just really all about hey guys stop the traffic over there, we're gonna let this side flow for 5 minutes. After five minutes okay guys stop that side, we're gonna let these folks in this side flow for 5 minutes. Then stop that side and go back and forth. More roads need to be turned into one ways heading off campus like they do with Lake Loudoun. Lake Loudoun is turned into a one-way after games down onto Neyland, they have been doing this since the 1980s. They could route either G11 or G17 out one way and up around and down Lake Loudoun and route either G11 or G17 down Lake Ave and out across Cumberland. They have 2 very large garages colliding and competing that are side by side to get out onto Lake Avenue only to sit still because they won't flow them in large bunches into Volunteer.

There might be a conspiracy to intentionally do this to G11 and G17 since both are basically right at The Strip (Cumberland) home of the restaurants and other establishments. Hopeful that all these people will hang around for a few more hours and empty their wallets. It has an opposite effect though because everyone is so pissed off they aren't going over there to be tourist........
 
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afvolunteer said:
This is the second thread regarding this in a few weeks, so reminded me to engage with the UTAD. Just zapped an email to the generic UTAD ticket sales office and then our sales rep POC with a brief synopsis of this issue and asked them if they could provide with someone in the AD, campus police, etc. that could discuss this issue with us about future strategy, solutions, etc. Not holding my breath on any sort of meaningful response, but will share on here if I get anything back from them.
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Thanks.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
UTPD has nothing to do with. KPD is in charge and they have tons of officers including helicopter involved. They monitor every road out and alleviate the heaviest traffic first. It’s different every game becuase of difference in crowd size and interstate traffic as well.
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Helicopters and IR pods and what ever other fancy equipment is worthless if you can't see inside the 2 garages on lake avenue where 0 cars are exiting. Traffic outside is nothing compared to 0 movement inside the garages. And it's definitely not different every game in that area. Every game for years sucks. I think it's probably a 2 hour average to exit either of those garages during a crappy, less populated games. For the bigger games, yikes.
 
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