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Posted by Charles G on Wed Apr 6 16:01:18 2011, in response to Football fans don't take mass transit?!, posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Apr 6 12:35:48 2011. I think the urban / suburban location makes a big part of the difference, but also the auto vs transit culture of an area has an impact as well.When I've attended NFL games in Atlanta, it seemed (based on my observation alone) that public transit was not heavily utilized by the fans -- despite there being good transit access to the Georgia Dome. OTOH, in more transit-oriented Seattle, there were plenty of fans arriving by public transit. Football will almost always have a lower transit penetration than baseball. With most NFL games taking place on a Sunday afternoon, fans know that the only traffic they encounter will likely be stadium traffic. With most baseball games happening on weekday evenings, there will be post rush-hour traffic as well as stadium traffic to fight. (In LA, rather than take transit, they just wait for the rush-hour to end and show up in the 4th inning). It would be interesting to compare transit ridership to Sunday afternoon baseball games to Sunday afternoon NFL games in the same city -- my guess is you wouldn't see a significant difference in percentage arriving by transit vs car. Still, given the 8 Sunday's a year usage of an NFL stadium, access to transit would not be high on my list of priorities if I were selecting a location for the stadium. CG |
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