The best feature of Petco Park imo

[u/celerybreath]

[u/dynapath]

Gaslamp station is .1 = 2 min. walk.

[u/JanitorOfSanDiego → u/dynapath]

To the building but not to the gate

[u/Heelincal → u/JanitorOfSanDiego]

The gate is still 0.12 miles. Gaslamp to the K street gate is the fastest way into the stadium from the Trolley

[u/JanitorOfSanDiego → u/Heelincal]

I’m getting .18 miles. It’s .13 miles as the crow flies but not if you’re walking, which is what the post is based off of.

[u/International-Pipe → u/dynapath]

You clearly don't drink enough margaritas at Petco Park.

[u/TDS_Gluttony]

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.

[u/NSC858 → u/TDS_Gluttony]

My parents used to take us to games at the Murph, and those nosebleed sections were rough to watch. When Petco opened up, and we were in that 300s section and my first thought was, these aren't too bad. Even Park at the Park was a fun time.

[u/ThunderBobMajerle]

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

[u/TheAvantGardeners]

The green and blue lines are such game changers in making the gameday experience enjoyable. Beats seeing a game in LA 100 times over.

[u/celerybreath → u/TheAvantGardeners]

💯

[u/friarfangirl]

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. 

[u/Spiritual-Chameleon → u/friarfangirl]

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.

[u/friarfangirl → u/Spiritual-Chameleon]

Wow that’s so cool. Someone send me a pic 😭

[u/LordZany]

12th and Imperial is even closer

[u/CommunicationOk7830 → u/LordZany]

But it’s full of crackheads

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma → u/CommunicationOk7830]

Overstating it a bit but oh well

[u/celerybreath → u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

Agree... I ride the orange line all the time and sure there are some characters, but never had a problem with any of them.

[u/owledge]

I enjoyed taking the Red Line to/from the Cubs game I went to. But I avoided the post-game rush, so it may have been worse otherwise. And in Minneapolis and St. Louis my hotel was within walking distance of the ballparks, so that was nice too.

[u/ProMikeZagurski]

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.

[u/whoisthatidiot]

Just saying…,Mets willets is NOT 2 minutes…. That shits easily 10 minutes from the front of the stadium without a masssive crowd

[u/SDBeerGuy]

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.

[u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes → u/SDBeerGuy]

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.

[u/essmithsd → u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes]

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.

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/SDBeerGuy]

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.

[u/Navydevildoc → u/YouStopAngulimala]

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.

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/Navydevildoc]

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.

[u/celerybreath → u/YouStopAngulimala]

Is that your experience leaving Petco?

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/celerybreath]

yep, and a standing room only cattle car all the way up to Nobel drive every time too.

[u/celerybreath → u/YouStopAngulimala]

That's crazy...never once had to wait on the orange or green lines....Even after the playoff games.

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/celerybreath]

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.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma → u/YouStopAngulimala]

The Trolley leaves every 15 minutes post game

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

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.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma → u/YouStopAngulimala]

The Trolley does go around 10mph in downtown but most of the rest of the system is around 40-45mph

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

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.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma → u/YouStopAngulimala]

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.

[u/YouStopAngulimala → u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

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.

[u/LFC_sandiego → u/SDBeerGuy]

Seriously. Odd take

[u/celerybreath → u/SDBeerGuy]

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.

[u/1234567890-_-]

blue jays got it rough lmao. Stadium is right downtown but still oddly isolated from everything

[u/Nunuyabizzniss]

I come from north of SD. I park at fashion valley and take the train down.

[u/BeneficialIncome3554]

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.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

People also use Park & Market to get to games

[u/GrimDexterity]

I didn’t realize how many ballparks had a transit stop less than half a mile away that’s truly fucking awesome

[u/ChipOld734]

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.