Game-changer: Atlanta Braves change start time for weeknight games at Great White Flight Park from 7:10 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. intending to help alleviate traffic
This is hilarious. The Braves actually think twenty whole minutes is going to make a modicum of difference when it comes to traffic in and surrounding the I-75/I-285 intersection. The top end of I-285 is already the worst traffic in the city on a regular basis, and maybe starting the game at 8:30 would be when traffic actually might die down, but there’s no guarantee then either.
There was this one time I was working in Sandy Springs. I dawdled into later hours on a regular basis, so that I could milk extra hours, and I was interested in a girl that worked there. But I would leave the office routinely around 7:00-7:30, because I already knew how bad the traffic was around 5-6 p.m. after work, and I figured it wouldn’t be as bad then.
Combining the asinine metered on-ramps and the fact that I-285 is I-285, it would take me over 20 minutes just to get on the highway, much less crawl the six miles from entering the highway to get to where ScumTrust Park is going to exist.
Changing the start of game times by twenty minutes accomplishes absolutely squat. If anything at all, it’s more of a detriment to traffic, because it’s going to unlock a whole other segment of people who now think 7:30 games are doable, as opposed to a 7:10 start. They’ll hit the road at like 6:30, thinking an hour “should be enough” and end up contributing to the gridlock that’s going to plague the interstates worse than it already is. At least a 7:00 start creates just enough doubt for people to either not go and save themselves the trouble, or perhaps cut out of work, or get on the road before 5:00 p.m.
Chalk another point into the projected list of failures that ScumTrust Park is looking to be. I already posted about the defeat of Tim Lee, but I didn’t know just how emphatically he was defeated; to the tune of 64-36% This, boys and girls, is called a blowout. Looks like Cobb residents actually can be pushed to a point, and spending all their money without their consent appears to have done the trick.
