SMI is investing $7.5 million in Kentucky parking improvments

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142 acres acquired by Kentucky Speedway will increase available parking by 35 percent. I sure hope that's enough.

More info here.

Ky Governor Steve Beshear Kentucky Speedway press conference says they are widening exit ramps off I-71, widening lanes on highway 35 and adding a pedestrian tunnel. $3.5 million in road and public safety improvements - funded by Commonwealth of KY

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear: "We committed that the traffic congestion that occurred on race day would not happen again.''

Also Kentucky Speedway has hired professional group that manages parking at Daytona, Pocono & Watkins Glen to manage KY parking

Bulldozers hard @ work across from the speedway.....

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Free off-site parking and shuttle busses would certainly help matters!
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Won't matter. If they only have two entrances to the track, it will still be congested.
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Wasn't a big part of the problem NOT using the second entrance to anything near it's capacity? If you look at how they parked the cars this year, about 20% of the space was wasted by cars being placed 3 or 4 feet apart. They also never set up string lines to organize the rows, so the whole thing ended up looking like the remnants of a plate of spaghetti.
 
I overheard some people at Bristol that live in Kentucky near the track that said the biggest problems are not enough entrances and places to park. Looks like at least one of these is being addressed.
 
FenderBumper said:
Wasn't a big part of the problem NOT using the second entrance to anything near it's capacity? If you look at how they parked the cars this year, about 20% of the space was wasted by cars being placed 3 or 4 feet apart. They also never set up string lines to organize the rows, so the whole thing ended up looking like the remnants of a plate of spaghetti.
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Exactly. They didn't know what the heck they were doing in that parking lot. There are as many ways into that track as there are most. They'll get it right the next time.
 
FenderBumper said:
Wasn't a big part of the problem NOT using the second entrance to anything near it's capacity? If you look at how they parked the cars this year, about 20% of the space was wasted by cars being placed 3 or 4 feet apart. They also never set up string lines to organize the rows, so the whole thing ended up looking like the remnants of a plate of spaghetti.
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A stadium with one entrance and 5,000 people has long traffic delays. A stadium with two entrances and 110,000 people is the recipe for a disaster.

The lack of parking due to shotty parking jobs resulted in people getting sent home. The lack of a proper number of entrances resulted in the traffic delays.

You can build twenty lanes of interstate and five lanes of exit ramp but all that traffic is still funneled in to the same place. The off site parking might help a little bit -- but the majority of the parking spaces are still on the track lot and there's still two entrances.
 
No only if they can manage to build some more hotels closer to the track. I was in Florence , KY while the race was going on ( I didn't go I was just visiting relatives. All the Hotels in northern KY were booked solid as a result of the race most ppl ended up staying in The Cincinnati area
 
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