Lack of parking at 49ers new stadium means no Monday/Thursday night football
San Francisco Chronicle / 12-9-13
A lack of game-night parking has the 49ers putting the brakes on high-profile "Monday Night Football" games at their new, billion-dollar stadium in Santa Clara.
The Niners have always counted on neighboring businesses and other outfits to provide 21,000 parking spaces on game days for fans at Levi's Stadium.
That will work fine on Sundays, when no one's toiling away at those businesses. It will be a different story, however, if 68,500 fans converge for a 5:30 p.m. kickoff and all those lots are full of employees' cars.
The upshot: No Monday night (or Thursday night) football for the team's inaugural season in Santa Clara next year, and maybe not after that, either.
LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Lack-of-parking-will-block-in-49ers-on-weeknight-5047223.php
• Stadium authorities say "Its a busy area … we're still formulating our parking policy."(Yeah, as if it's suddenly a surprise).
• According to the article, the 49ers have approached businesses about changing employees' hours on game days in order to clear the parking lots.
Can't get more fucked up than that.