GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Fans attending Sunday’s Packers Family Night need to plan ahead.
That’s the advice from both Packers officials and local law enforcement.
The new Titletown Development, where the Kmart and other businesses used to stand, took away 2,500 parking spaces.
“The parking we utilized over there, a lot of it was for staff, and some other season clients, with staff we’re going to do satellite parking and shuttle them in and with season parking clients, we were able to move over to the lots to the south because we gained about 300 more spots with the additional homes that were razed,” Aaron Popkey, Green Bay Packers Public Relations, tells FOX 11.
So to help out, the Packers are touting their map of controlled parking lot areas.
“When people are rushed, they make quick decisions, and quick decisions often result in car crashes, being lost, being in the wrong parking lot, being on the wrong street,” says Capt. Kevin Warych of the Green Bay Police Department. “So we want people to be aware of different traffic routes, parking lots have changed where people could’ve parked in years past, so it’s going to be a little different.
Warych says Green Bay police perform table-top exercises in preparation for the new traffic layout and problems which could arise in the stadium district.
“We’re just anticipating that the public are going to be parking deeper in the residential areas,” says Chief Eric Dunning with Ashwaubenon Public Safety. “You get back into the residential area, it becomes much narrower the streets, and then you have the pedestrians walking in the streets also, so it takes a lot more time to get your way through there.”
Both Dunning and Warych urge fans to be patient, leave early and plan ahead.
“We try to deploy our resources so that traffic can efficiently and at a pretty good pace clear out of Lambeau Field,” Warych says.
Dunning says they’ve received calls to the village about alternate parking venues, especially for larger vehicles like RVs. He recommends the Brown County Fairgrounds, which is designed to handle RVs, as well as some businesses in the entertainment district with larger surface parking lots could be a place for fans.
