Cardinals/Busch Stadium

[jim]

Are you guys just bad w/ directions in general?? Because I really find the stadium fairly easy to navigate.

Other than the 2nd level which has alot of restricted access areas due to the Redbird Club, BOA section and the suites the rest of the sections are easy.

I just typically head in gate 4 if I have bleacher or seats down the left field line, or if I have seats by homeplate I go in the main entrance (where Stan's statue is located).

Those are really the only two entrances I'll use (since I park at the AT&T building) and I don't feel like walking all the way around the stadium on the outside. There's an escalator in the LF and RF corners that will take you up to the any deck if need be and there's a walkway to the left by the Stan entrance and the Fredbird Build-a-Bear workshop.

No, I have an excellent sense of direction.

I'm not really complaining much about the entrances for myself--I know approximately where I'm going. It's for when I have to tell somebody else which entrance to go into. It used to be easy--middle number of the ticket is the gate number closest to your seat. Why they went away from this very simple system, I have no idea.

What I am complaining about is the maze of steps and escalators inside. Some only go up to the second deck. Some only go from 2 to 3. It is really bizarre. And a lot of the staircases aren't the easiest to find. I get it figured out and get where I need to go, but it's not laid out well at all. Whoever designed it forgot the fundamental laws of designing public spaces--people don't want to have to figure things out, so make it easy for them. That's probably my biggest complaint about the new stadium (besides Lake DeWitt).

Exactly.

That's why I made the comment that in the old place everything went everywhere. Even besides figuring out what gate to go in by the middle number of you section, it's that it didn't matter which ramp you took up because they all went everywhere. There was no thought at all ... find your gate and if you weren't in the field level just start walking up and you got there. Pick a random spot and B3 and go up and these grump old men will attack you and tell you that you are not authorized to be where you are. It happened to me just like that, we took an escalator up and it pretty much couldn't go any higher so I figured I must be where I needed to be.

[BenNX74205]

Here's a better comparison that a GIS yielded + my own photos:

picture of four clocks

The Nationals Park clock is equally poor, however their clock is about four times as large as ours.

Yes, there may be a light out during Game 5, however I believe the pictures speak for themselves.

Nats Clock: 7:50pm
Cards Clock @ Night: 7:10pm
Cards Clock @ Day: 6:25pm
Wrigley: 2:40pm

The Cards at night clock is tougher to read because it's not lit very well, but you should also include a pic of Wrigley's clock at night for comparisons sake.

And that Nats clock is much worse than the other clocks. I can barely see those hands in the pic, and I never noticed it was a clock when I was at a Nats game, either.

It's not the greatest clock ever, but it's not an abomination of timekeeping design either.

[Radbird]

We need to get jim and Popeye out to a game at Coors Field so they can experience a well-designed ballpark. We can meet in the right field corner at the Sandlot Brewery.