Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help but marvel at the way the parking situation surrouding Winston Salem’s taxpayer-funded stadium blows holes into utopian visions where everyone walks, society as a whole is healthier and the air is cleaner. Face it: If people want to walk, they will. If they don’t, they won’t. It looks stadium developers realize that:
The plan released at a public meeting last night in City Hall shows that 850 of these parking spaces would be on surface lots next to the stadium. Overflow parking would be provided at the city-owned Center City West Deck near the corner of Fourth and Spring streets. That parking deck has about 700 parking spaces.
…..Judy Pappas, the president of the Holly Avenue Neighborhood Association, said she is relieved that the developers have revised their plan and will not be encouraging people to park up and down Holly Avenue.
“The deck is a perfect solution,” she said. I just think people may not want to walk that far.”
Heavens, people driving to the ballgame, eating hot dogs and nachos, drinking beer and soda, then driving home. Expect the death rate in Winston-Salem to rise once the Warthogs move into the new stadium.
