Braves ditching The Ted for suburbs

When you say it isn't about race, it is always about race.

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/features/2012/8/1/marta-tsplost-transportation/print

 

Until it moves two years later.

 

RE: Traffic from Gwinnett - Traveling to Turner Field from Gwinnett for a night game you're going opposite the rush-hour traffic. On 285 there is no opposite at rush hour. It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, is done to improve traffic at the new site.

Farrar beat me to the link on that Atlanta Magazine article. Really informative read on why Atlanta's transit system is what it is.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Braves had the chance to get a MARTA station within easy walking distance of the ballpark and turned it down in the interest of not losing parking revenue. Now, when the city couldn't deliver 5,000 more parking spaces, they deemed their situation unimprovable and decided to leave.

I've followed the Braves my entire life, and I clearly remember Schuerholz saying on numerous occasions after his arrival that he wanted to improve the fan experience. He upgraded the team. Improved Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Made Turner Field a "Baseball theme park." The one thing he couldn't pull off was improving the neighborhood. I've been to at least a couple hundred games at the two stadiums, and I've never had a problem, and I don't know anyone who has. That said, that area is at the very least an eyesore. Whether rational or not, if people are scared to be in and around your ballpark, that downgrades the fan experience. Is this all racist code language? Perhaps, but this move gives the Braves a chance to take that negative away.

Oh, and they get $450 million from Cobb County in the bargain. Winning.

 

If Cobb County isn't a tea party bastion in 2013, it oughta be in 2014 if the tea party actually has any staying power.

 

Dah!! Beat me to it. Bravo, Kirk.

 

Has it really been 35 years? Wow doesn't seem that long ago.

 

Actually the I-285 incident happened in 1982, so 31 years.

 

The Braves' new head of security.

 

to the prairie provinces? or does that only happen with hockey teams?

I'd say that's true of Atlanta. My aunt and uncle moved there in '90 and at first lived about an hour north of the city on the edge of the wilderness. Within a couple years the area near them exploded with strip malls and subdivisions and they moved further out and then that area exploded with strip malls and subdivisions. They never even go downtown now. The area grew too fast to deal with the growth, so now you get rush hour traffic on 2-lane back roads that were in the middle of the country a few years ago.

I think that's a cop out. Plenty of MLB stadiums are in less-than-nice areas. You can say the same of a lot of NFL, NBA and NHL buildings too. When I went to a few events there during the Olympics it was pretty obvious that a few blocks from the stadium was a not-so-nice part of town, but that neighborhood was still light years nicer than even the best parts of Detroit.

 

In comparison, I find it hard to believe Rangers Ballpark in Arlington would be kicked to the curb after 20 years. Even though the center of gravity of season ticketholders has shifted greatly to the east and north. It's still a nice stadium and they got traffic right. Put a winner on the field and the fans will show up, even if you put the stadium in Corsicana.

 

Well, next year will be the 20th for the Ballpark so I guess you're right.

 

Does anyone know who currently owns the land where the stadium will be palced. I called the area up and it is a nice green space. Will the Braves be given extra land to develop?