Getting to Tiger Stadium

• Published: Sep 11, 2009 - Page: 4B

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APPROACHING CAMPUS

FROM THE NORTH: Use either River Road, Nicholson Drive, Highland Road or Dalrymple Drive. From these routes, parking will be available north of the stadium, on Nicholson Drive near the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse, at Kirby Smith dormitory lots off Aster and Roosevelt Streets, or at the Pleasant Hall lots on Dalrymple Drive.

FROM THE EAST, SOUTH: Use either College Drive, Acadian/Stanford exit, Highland Road or Burbank Drive and Nicholson Drive. Parking is available on Gourrier Lane south of the stadium, off River Road near the Mississippi River and on additional lots east of the stadium in the vicinity of the John M. Parker Coliseum. Fans coming from the south on Nicholson Drive or Burbank will be routed to Gourrier Lane, then River Road.
90 minutes before kickoff: Police will direct one-way traffic only toward Tiger Stadium on Highland Road from Lee Drive, on West Lakeshore Drive from Stanford, on Nicholson Drive Extension from Highland Road and on Dalrymple Drive from the Interstate 10 overpass.

SHUTTLE BUSES
 
DOWNTOWN: The Downtown Business Association is providing limited shuttle bus service to and from downtown to Tiger Stadium for home football games. Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. and are $18 for the round trip. Tickets must be purchased from the Hilton Hotelís front desk at 201 Lafayette St., (225) 344-5866, or the Sheraton Hotelís front desk at 102 France St., (225) 242-2600. Kickoff is 6 p.m. and buses will begin leaving the Hilton at 3:30 p.m. with the last bus leaving at 5 p.m. or sooner if it fills up. The last bus will depart Tiger Stadium 30 minutes after the end of the game to return to the Hilton and Sheraton.
 

WESTMORELAND AND FARR PARK: LSU has contracted with First Transit to run its traditional foootball game-day shuttle bus routes from Westmoreland Shopping Center and from Farr Park. Round-trip tickets will be $15 from those locations.
HANDICAP LOT M: LSU will operate its handicap shuttle service from Lot M near the Dub Robinson Tennis Stadium to Tiger Stadium on game day.

PARKING

• Parking of vehicles on the neutral ground (islands) on Nicholson Drive will be prohibited.
• Parking for motor homes in Lot B and Touchdown Village will again be available anytime after 5 p.m. on Friday of a home football game. These spaces are individually reserved. Motor homes should not arrive until after 5 p.m. After 5 p.m., motor homes with permits for Lot B or Touchdown Village will be allowed to move to their respective lots under the direction of the LSU Police and parking personnel.
• North and South Stadium drives will be closed to all vehicular traffic.
• The parking lot next to the Dub Robinson Tennis Stadium north of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center is used as a special handicap parking area for fans with a handicap placard or plate.
• Charter buses will park in Lot W on Skip Bertman Drive, just west of the Charles McClendon Practice Fields.

AFTER THE GAME
 
GOING NORTH: Traffic west of Tiger Stadium will be directed onto Nicholson Drive or to River Road. Northbound traffic east of Tiger Stadium will be directed onto Highland Road.
GOING?SOUTH: Traffic from the stadium will be directed onto Nicholson Drive, River Road or Burbank Drive.

NICHOLSON DRIVE: Traffic going south on Nicholson Drive will not be contra-flowed as it was last year because Burbank Drive is now available for full use. Burbank Drive was under construction last season.

LOTS ON RIVER ROAD: To expedite traffic flow out of the Levee Lots onto River Road, both lanes of traffic will flow south between the southernmost exit of the Levee Lots and Brightside Drive. Southbound motorists should be aware that the left lane on River Road will be forced to turn east onto Brightside and the right lane will be forced to proceed south on River Road.  Motorists planning to turn onto Brightside must get into the left lane of River Road between the southernmost exit of the Levee Lots and Brightside. Motorists exiting the Levee Lots should be aware that the northernmost exit from that lot will be directed to go north on River Road and the southernmost exit from that lot will be directed to go south on River Road.

LOTS ON GOURRIER AVENUE: Traffic procedures for the parking lots on Gourrier Avenue will be similar to post-game traffic for an LSU baseball game. Motorists exiting the Hayfield Lot on Gourrier Avenue will be contra-flowed west to River Road, but then both lanes of Gourrier Avenue traffic must turn south onto River Road. Motorists in the Hayfield Lot who wish to go north onto River Road will need to travel through the Levee Lots and use the northernmost exit of the Levee Lots. Vehicles exiting the new Alex Box Stadium lots will be contra-flowed east to Nicholson Drive. The right lane of Gourrier Avenue will be allowed to go straight onto Burbank or turn south onto Nicholson. The left lane will be allowed to go straight onto Burbank or turn north onto Nicholson.