We park in Lot 6, and frankly, getting into that lot at the UT game was a lot more difficult than getting out of it. Took us only 15 minutes to get out. Took more than an hour to get in.
The Fort Worth Police weren't a help at all, they were a major impediment. Even at light-controlled intersections where they overruled the lights by directing traffic personally, they held the traffic from every direction much too long (through 4-5 traffic light cycles) for cross-traffic or pedestrians. It should be no more than 2 cycles. As a result of these overlong traffic hold-ups, the Police caused the traffic from just about every direction to back-up and logjam much worse than if there were no police traffic control at all. They weren't the solution, they were part of the problem.
After one game last year, we decided that instead of exiting toward I-20 down Hulen, as we always do -- and as everybody else does, creating monster traffic jams at Hulen and I-20 -- we would instead exit down Granbury. By getting on the freeway there, we would avoid entering and contributing to the tremendous traffic logjam at I-20 and Hulen.
Alas, we didn't figure on the FWPD's idiotically conceived traffic-control strategy. They had blocked off the I-20 freeway entrance at Granbury and were directing all traffic down the access road right into -- you guessed it -- the monster traffic logjam at I-20 and Hulen, thus making the problem there worse than it would have otherwise been. Brilliant!
Obviously, I don't have a high opinion of FWPD traffic control after special events. Their strategy seems to be more intent on aggravating than alleviating traffic tie-ups.
