before and after the game. I dropped 4 folks off at the traffic signal on Blackjack where if you turned south you would go to the Vet school. Our plan was for me to pick them up at the same place afterwards. However, Blackjack was shut down afterwards and there was no way to get to where I dropped them off. They ended up walking to Taste Restaurant and I got them there. Just seems like a lot of confusion with traffic flow….really was quite a cluster. Starkville police sure love to flash constant multiple blue lights to the point of almost blinding a driver. Looks like it would be much safer for them to manually operate the traffic signals to control traffic. Saw quite a few men directing traffic without the proper reflective safety vests…asking for a terrible accident. Crazy stuff. Oh well.
Is there a map showing traffic flow direction
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The school put out a statement then referred everyone to the Waze app, which no one could use because cell service is so bad gameday. It was a cluster 17.
These can be found on the Game Day website
Pre-Game Traffic - https://static.hailstate.com/custom...id=mississippist_email_eloqua_eloqua&rid=1987
Post Game Traffic - https://static.hailstate.com/custom...id=mississippist_email_eloqua_eloqua&rid=1987
Pre-Game Traffic - https://static.hailstate.com/custom...id=mississippist_email_eloqua_eloqua&rid=1987
Post Game Traffic - https://static.hailstate.com/custom...id=mississippist_email_eloqua_eloqua&rid=1987
It's our best tradition. 17ing up traffic after football games. It's why I park at SDN and take the bus.
Go to Gameday on hailstate.com and click on the "Football Gameday Parking Entry & Exit Routes" tab for all of the maps.
Yeah I'm not sure why they thought telling people to use their phones on campus on Gameday was a good idea. It's just so random during games and EVERY year we hear how it's going to improve. I logged in yesterday morning before going to drop off tailgating tables, chairs etc and it showed Creelman closed at 9:00 when it didn't actually close until 1:00. "MSU Athletics, consistently inconsistent is our motto"
I love Waze when I’m on the road - but it sucks in this type of situation when you’re around parking lots. Struggles to know which way you’re facing when you’re not moving
looks like Blackjack is closed at the Vet school, this year. That caused some people confusion.
https://www.transportation.msstate.edu/gameday
People need to learn they can turn left, take Blackjack east and get back to 82 and 182 Otherwise you will end up in the middle of town.
https://www.transportation.msstate.edu/gameday
People need to learn they can turn left, take Blackjack east and get back to 82 and 182 Otherwise you will end up in the middle of town.
Every year they seem to just look for ways to make the traffic flow worse. It’s almost like they intentionally make it as difficult as possible for the fans. A great game day experience my ***. Let’s see if we can make it almost impossible to reach our assigned parking lot. Mission accomplished! Fans thinking about turning around and heading back home before they ever get parked. Looking at you Mr.Invisible. What a cluster.
They had parking zone entrances based on the number lot you’re in. However the parking pass themselves nor any physical signage on campus had which parking lot matched the entrance zone. And as stated earlier Waze didn’t work worth a damn. It was a cluster 17 trying to get to lot 13.
We try so hard to keep fans away from football. This crap this weekend was terrible, even with half the crowd leaving at halftime in stadium that wasn't even full. Imagine that Florida game if we start 3-0. Talk about an absolute mess, this was the worst plan I can remember. It's thrown together and half-assed by the school and Starkville. We dominate the Half-Assing competition!
Getting out of town wasn't the biggest problem, getting TO town was. It's like Starkville just wanted everyone to GTFO.
Biggest issue I had was the road I had to take to get to my lot was barricaded so I went past it thinking Waze was off. Had to turn around and come back and get them to move the barricade so I could get to the actual lot, which had another barricade where I had to show the pass. Seems like the new system has some potential but there needs to be bigger and better signage. Also the poor folks working the lots were just as clueless as the fans trying to find them.
This is a YUGE issue at EVERY MSU sporting event. There's a big shortage of the people willing to do this job, I've heard it multiple times from an athletic dept acquaintance. This leads to different people being at different entrance to streets and lots most weekends. Then you throw in the "don't give a damn factor" for some of them and well, there you go
It was open up until either 12:00 or 1:00. Then it was closed unless you had a parking pass for Lots 13 or 15.
We tailgate near there. Stone is open until 4 hours before KO. Then closed. I drop my stuff early early and go park.
Thanks for the reply. I really couldn’t understand the map layout that MSU had put out.
We are in lot 13. Got up to the traffic light literally 50 feet from the lot and had to turn around go back to the traffic circle on blackjack and then north past the band hall and then west to eventually reach the lot we could have entered a half hour earlier. There is a reason that decision makers in the world of academia can never cut the mustard in the real world.
One time I took the bus from/to the Vet School. One thing I learned is if you just miss the bus after the game, you're going to be standing there for a long time. No thanks.
I was taking my cooler back to my truck in lot 13 about an hour before kickoff and stood there for a while watching the show at Stone blvd and Bully blvd. The amount of people that were about to get into altercations with the traffic control was quite comical because they couldn't turn left on Bully blvd. I agree that not allowing people access lots 11 and 13 from Stone blvd is mind boggling. I have a feeling most Bulldog Club Members got the memo but anyone that bought a pass second hand will continue to be lost.
The busses run downtown every 15-20 minutes. Beats sitting in a paid lot for 2 hours trying to get out. I've done than more than I care to count and is probably why I have blood pressure issues to this day.