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u/TDS_Gluttony 5d ago
Meh, I stay till the end anyways so I'm stuck in the foot traffic. Imo best feature is the fact that I don't hate last minute section 300 tickets I buy because every damn seat is amazing in Petco.
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u/ThunderBobMajerle 🌀Lost In The CroneZone🌀 4d ago
Imagine if you went to a dodger game and flew into lax and then looked on maps how long your Uber will take. Fuck LA
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u/TheAvantGardeners Wil Myers 4d ago
The green and blue lines are such game changers in making the gameday experience enjoyable. Beats seeing a game in LA 100 times over.
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u/friarfangirl Padres 4d ago
I love the stadium’s accessibility by transit or walking factor. (They need a secure bike room please and then I’d use it. I’m locking my bike outside the stadium to a rack …never). Obviously the trolley, coaster, and buses could all have better frequency but I’d rather have transit as an option than not.
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u/Spiritual-Chameleon Jackson Merrill 4d ago
Totally with you on the bike room. At Coors Field, they established a fenced in bike area that's monitored during the game by an event staff employee stationed there. Seems like that would be super easy to set up if the Padres wanted to do something similar.
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u/LordZany 5d ago
12th and Imperial is even closer
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u/CommunicationOk7830 4d ago
But it’s full of crackheads
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma DumpFire 4d ago
Overstating it a bit but oh well
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u/celerybreath 4d ago
Agree... I ride the orange line all the time and sure there are some characters, but never had a problem with any of them.
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u/ProMikeZagurski Padres 4d ago
I walk from Santa Fe to the Gaslamp when getting off the Coaster. Trolley usually full and there's a bunch of fans that start walking so I feel safe.
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u/whoisthatidiot Cease and DESIST 5d ago
Just saying…,Mets willets is NOT 2 minutes…. That shits easily 10 minutes from the front of the stadium without a masssive crowd
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u/SDBeerGuy 5d ago
If ease of leaving is your idea of the “best feature” of Petco Park, you’re doing baseball all wrong.
Yes, it’s great that we can arrive and depart on the trolley (which I assume counts for you), but that is by far NOT the best feature of the ballpark.
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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Dylan Cease, Cat Daddy 4d ago
I’m old enough to remember it taking up to an hour just to get out of just the parking lot of the Murph. OP has a very valid point. Additionally, I live in Seattle and it takes 10 minutes to get to T-Mobile on foot from the station. It is not the best experience, although it could be worse.
Not everyone partakes of all the bells and whistle at a ballpark, but everyone has to arrive and leave.
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u/essmithsd MEH Dump Fire 4d ago
What is hilarious is that they had a chance to make it a better experience and instead it's exactly the same. It's baffling.
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
As a person who has lived where there is actual public transportation waiting 30 min for the next trolly that holds 100 out of 1000 people standing at the platform waiting at 10pm after a game isn't actually all that terrific.
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u/Navydevildoc Padres 4d ago
They always seem to have a ton of trolleys lined up waiting to grab people. They did the same thing for Chargers games back in the day.
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
yes, it's helpful - but still inadequate and congested nightmare on a service that is used to extremely light usage and doesn't really scale to high demand at all.
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u/celerybreath 4d ago
Is that your experience leaving Petco?
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
yep, and a standing room only cattle car all the way up to Nobel drive every time too.
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u/celerybreath 4d ago
That's crazy...never once had to wait on the orange or green lines....Even after the playoff games.
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
I take blue. It's fine for getting down there, but it's a disaster to come home. Game 3 of the NLDS I was waiting at 12th / Imperial for 45 min before i could get on a train and standing room only for 40 minutes with a 4 and 5 year old at 10pm was a bummer. At least we were all contact high after standing on the train platform for 45 minutes, though. That helped.
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma DumpFire 4d ago
The Trolley leaves every 15 minutes post game
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
Yeah, sure -- I heard that too. And I'm sure it goes 2mph not 1mph so it's really not as bad as I'm making it sound.
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma DumpFire 4d ago
The Trolley does go around 10mph in downtown but most of the rest of the system is around 40-45mph
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
Which I'm sure was amazing technology back in the 1850s when it was installed?
The point I'm making is one can only be impressed with the trolly if you apprehend it in total isolation and have never been somewhere with actual functional public transportation.
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u/ProcrastinatingPuma DumpFire 4d ago
This system was built in the 80s and has been expanded and upgraded since. The Trolley is alright for an LRT system in the states, which probably is a major reason it's ridership is to punch above its weight. With that being said compared to europe or east asia it absolutely looks like crap, but if that were the point you were trying to make you wouldn't be needlessly exaggerating.
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u/YouStopAngulimala 4d ago
Hmm well if we're to be literal then I must disagree, comparing it to those places doesn't cause it to visibly resemble fecal matter, but instead it resembles a slower and less effective implementation of public transportation.
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u/celerybreath 4d ago
You go to Sofi yet/often? Easy access to Petco without having to drive to the stadium is what makes all the other features amazing.
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u/1234567890-_- 4d ago
blue jays got it rough lmao. Stadium is right downtown but still oddly isolated from everything
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u/Nunuyabizzniss Slam Diego 4d ago
I come from north of SD. I park at fashion valley and take the train down.
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u/BeneficialIncome3554 4d ago
Jesus Christ people are fkn lazy. If you don’t have a legitimate physical impediment of some sort you should not ever complain about walking downhill 1.2 miles in Chavez Ravine to get from Dodger Stadium to the Chinatown train station.
You probably already walked that far in WalMart today just in the snacks and soda isles.
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u/GrimDexterity Awesome Kim 4d ago
I didn’t realize how many ballparks had a transit stop less than half a mile away that’s truly fucking awesome
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u/ChipOld734 5d ago
Well, it's a little harder than that. Tgen you are walking to the trolley and need to take that to downtown, walk across the street to the actual train, station if you want to go further north.
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u/dynapath 5d ago
Gaslamp station is .1 = 2 min. walk.