Ballparks and Transportation

[Lafferty Daniel]

With gas prices, traffic, and parking fees, it's tough for most fans to get to and from their favorite ballparks. How is it in your city?

I attend many games at Dodger Stadium, a wonderful ballpark with a terrible traffic problem and scarce public transportation options. A lot of Dodger fans hope that the city will build the 'Blue Line' light rail that could drop many fans off at Chavez Ravine.

Here is what the Twins are building. This park will have access to light rails, buses, and there is even a bike trail that will go by the park.

[baseballman1243]

Yankee stadium 4 and D trains

[Sean O]

Tomorrow, going to spend almost $20 in public transportation getting to and from the game at Fenway. But, it's still cheaper than driving. It'll also take me 2 hours each way.

Lowell Commuter Rail to North Station, then green line to Fenway, then El Pelon Taqueria:

[Lafferty Daniel]

Tomorrow, going to spend almost $20 in public transportation getting to and from the game at Fenway. But, it's still cheaper than driving. It'll also take me 2 hours each way.

Lowell Commuter Rail to North Station, then green line to Fenway, then El Pelon Taqueria:

How long would it take for you to drive there?

[Lafferty Daniel]

Yankee stadium 4 and D trains

New York City has great public transportation.

[Sean O]

Well, 45-50 minute commuter rail ride, and it drops me off next to where I usually park. It takes between 35-45 minutes to drive in and about 25-30 to drive back, so I'm losing about 20-30 minutes all told I guess. After I get to the North Station area it's a good 45 minute green line ride to Fenway, Prudential or Kenmore, then a walk from the food joint to the park.

Biggest problem is, if I miss the 10:40 train, I have to wait 'til 12:40. That would certainly be a mess.

[JeepingBaseball]

I know of no public transportation to Arlington, but there's a commuter rail if you want to go to American Airlines Center in Dallas.

New York has the best transportation to all major venues in the entire tri state area.

[Lafferty Daniel]

Well, 45-50 minute commuter rail ride, and it drops me off next to where I usually park. It takes between 35-45 minutes to drive in and about 25-30 to drive back, so I'm losing about 20-30 minutes all told I guess. After I get to the North Station area it's a good 45 minute green line ride to Fenway, Prudential or Kenmore, then a walk from the food joint to the park.

Biggest problem is, if I miss the 10:40 train, I have to wait 'til 12:40. That would certainly be a mess.

That sounds reasonable, although I'm sure the lack of complete freedom or convenience would bother some fans.

[Lafferty Daniel]

I know of no public transportation to Arlington, but there's a commuter rail if you want to go to American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Fun little Texas fact for everyone....Arlington is the largest city in the U.S. not served by a comprehensive public transportation system.

[efin98]

That sounds reasonable, although I'm sure the lack of complete freedom or convenience would bother some fans.

That's just one line from that commuter rail terminal, it's worse if you are riding in from south of the city where you need to transfer at South Station to grab a Red Line train or Back Bay to grab an Orange Line train then transfer over to the Green Line to get to Fenway...about another 10-20 minutes at least, usually longer if you don't get a train right away.

[Lafferty Daniel]

That's just one line from that commuter rail terminal, it's worse if you are riding in from south of the city where you need to transfer at South Station to grab a Red Line train or Back Bay to grab an Orange Line train then transfer over to the Green Line to get to Fenway...about another 10-20 minutes at least, usually longer if you don't get a train right away.

How much is parking near Fenway?

[stlfan]

Here in St. Louis we don't have an extensive light rail system and we don't have a commuter train system. The city and region isn't large enough to where we need one. But our light rail system, Metrolink, is very useful as long as you happen to live near it.

A couple of years ago they built an extension that goes down to reach more residents in the south, but for me I still have to drive 20 minutes to get to it, and it's 20 minutes out of the way, considering I could drive to Busch Stadium in 15-20 minutes. Even though I would save a lot of time driving to the ballgame, if I want to park close to the ballpark and pay, it costs me more than twice than if I bought a round trip ticket on Metrolink. For the most part I'd say I Metro it half the time and drive and park the other half, but those are usually on weekend games that I drive.

I think that as they expand the system more and gas prices get more and more out of hand, people will prefer to ride Metrolink to the game even if it takes longer.

[Sean O]

How much is parking near Fenway?

$15 at the Prudential about a 10-15 min. walk away. $30 in the ring between 5-10 minutes away, and inside of that is anybody's guess. I've seen $60 at some places, and there were newspaper reports of $100 for the playoffs last year.

I mean, I have a $12 ticket so I'm not exactly complaining too much.

[BlueCrew08]

Anybody

know what impact the new light rail being built in the Phoenix area will have in getting to Chase Field?

[efin98]

How much is parking near Fenway?

An arm and a leg.