madbamahater
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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.
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.
