Parking Lots to Open at Noon for Notre Dame Game
U-M announced earlier today that all the university lots, the golf courses, and Pioneer will open for parking at noon for the night game vs. Notre Dame. Here's the press release:
Aug. 18, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced today (Thursday, Aug. 18) that football game day parking lots will open to all permits and public at noon when Michigan hosts Notre Dame in the Under the Lights Game on Saturday, Sept. 10.
The listing of parking lots opening at noon include: Blue, Grey, Purple, Buffalo, Red, Brown, Green and the U-M Golf Course. In addition to the university lots, Ann Arbor Golf and Outing and Pioneer High School will be opening to the public at noon.
The game between the Wolverines and Irish is scheduled for an 8 p.m. kickoff on ESPN. This will be the first-ever primetime game played at Michigan Stadium in the history of Michigan football.
August 19th, 2011 at 2:55 PM ^
Staying at the courtyard and originally planned to park somewhere in between there and stadium to minimize walking. Was wondering if there was anywhere that would allow me to do this and not get towed if I left my car there due to post game bar hopping and drunkedness.
August 19th, 2011 at 3:37 PM ^
For making sure I bought a house within walking distance of the Stadium.
What a bunch of headaches this causes. You'd hope that if you normally arrive 5 hours before the game, that 8 hours before would be enough time, and people who show up right at the beginning would, and those that come later would. But for this day, I doubt it. MSU last year is the first time I had people parking way past my house. I'm thinking it's going to be way more so this time.
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
so the people in charge of Pioneer finally got back to me. They said the university and Ann Arbor pd are asking fans not to come into town until noon for traffic and safety reasons. But all they could say is their staff will be there at the regular time.
I would just watch the drinking until noon as the police may enforce the no drinking on school grounds until the city traffic picks up.
August 24th, 2011 at 9:51 PM ^
I think this Noon time decided by UM and A2PD is to force the paranoid fans to use the new Park N Party reservation system at http://parknparty.com Wonder what kind of capital investment folks at UM or city have in this new service and what % of the take they get?
I know private lots exist that don't/aren't abiding by the Noon rule, but I prefer the golf course. Also, I would think UM would want as many fans (local, non-local, students, non-students) to be able to find convienant parking as to draw the biggest crowd possible for ESPN College Gameday.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:49 PM ^
The game is broadcast on espn vs abc wtf? Now if your not going in you better have a satilite dish?