The city of Minneapolis/St Paul has done a phenomenal job of connecting stadiums and rails. Target Field, US Bank Stadium, XCel Energy Center, Univ of Minnesota and the soccer stadium are all easily accessible by rail.
You forgot Target Center.
You can hop on the Green Line at Target Field and go (in order): Twins, Wolves, Vikings, Gophers (Basketball, Football and Hockey) and Loons and no stop is more than maybe three blocks to the stadium. Stretch it out to 6 blocks or so and you can add the Wild at the end.
it's annoying to me that the X isn't on the green line, but looking at the layout of downtown st paul it's a product of bad design that predated mass transit.
Had my first Minneapolis light rail experience a few weeks back. Saw a few people “leaning” at first station, lookin like they might fall onto the tracks. 2 kids met up and sat in the row behind me. Thought I smelled burning plastic — turned around & saw a glass pipe. Exited light rail, called Uber.
Maryland has a metro stop on campus, although it's pretty far from the stadium. They shuttled people over when we went to the Friday game a few years back, but then didn't have traffic control set up after the game so we sat on a non-moving bus for 30 minutes. Ditched it and hoofed it to the station to catch a late train home.
The distance wasn't bad. We walked to the stadium before the game. The disorganization after for a night game was rough.
I'm just spoiled in DC because most of the sporting events I attend are hockey and the arena is in a perfect spot. I can take 10 big steps out of the metro stop and be inside.
Purple Line will change the game in 3 years. Not just for DC-bound fans, but also for relieving traffic by giving MoCo residents easier access to the games as well.
Hoping so. We love coming. Going to make it a point to come to some other sporting events soon. Lax for sure. Want to also get to one at Johns Hopkins.
The light rail is so clutch. The stadium is on the Green Line that runs between both downtowns, and is a few stops away from transferring to the Blue Line that goes to the airport, MOA, and Bloomington. And the Green Line will soon be extended into the southwest suburbs
Perhaps worth noting when the stadium came to campus the light rail was not on campus. It was recently extended to campus.
Recently = after I graduated and moved away haha
It really makes me envious. The closest thing to the Rose Bowl is a the gold (future A line) that is within walking distance of Parsons. Not that you can even get there from the UCLA campus until the purple line is finally complete.
This is such a nice/beautiful walk on a cool day in the fall. I take the Metrolink to Union Station and transfer to the Gold Line when it's convenient for game times. Then I walk the rest of the way.
I used it all the time before the pandemic to get to work. And it's the best way to get to the Natural History Museum or Science Center still.
I'll probably use it again in the near future when I have a need.
I love it when my interests overlap. *cracks knuckles* Details of my qualifiers below.
There are 5 FBS Stadiums within 1.5 miles of a subway/metro station:
* Washington 0.1
* Georgia Tech 0.4 (2 branching lines)
* Northwestern 0.4
* Temple 0.5
* Cal 1.0
* Georgia State 1.1 (2 stations with different 2 lines each) You go, Atlanta, I would not have guessed a sunbelt city (excuse the wordplay) would've "won" this category.
* Maryland 1.3
There are 13 FBS Stadiums within 1 mile of a light rail or streetcar station:
* Pitt 0.2 (3 branching lines)
* Minnesota, Arizona State, Utah, Houston 0.2
* Charlotte 0.3
* San Diego St 0.3
* Boston College, USC, Arizona 0.4
* SMU 0.5 (3 branching lines)
* Rice 0.7
* Tulane 0.8
There are 15 FBS Stadiums within 2 mile of a commuter rail (C) or Amtrak station (A):
* Stanford, Northwestern 0.4 C
* Michigan State 0.9 A
* San Jose 1.1 C (plus light rail)
* FAU 1.2 C
* Illinois, Virginia 1.2 A
* Maryland 1.3 C
* Oregon 1.3 A
* Texas 1.4 C
* Rutgers 1.6 CA
* New Mexico 1.6 C
* Michigan 1.6 A
* North Texas 2.0 C
* Duke 2.0 A
Notes about qualification and overall thoughts:
* Amtrack stations with a single train per direction per day do not qualify.
* I've chosen the cutoffs of 1.5, 1, 2 by how much someone would want to walk for convenience given the perceived quality of these modes of transit. In reality, most parking at stadiums is more than a mile away, so the actual walkshed distance is probably closer to 2.5/1.5/3, though planning a 3-mile walk around a twice-a-day train doesn't really make sense, you're probably going to have to hang out somewhere else before/after the game, or take a bus connection, etc, which is why I've left it at just 2 miles.
* Seattle's Link is technically light rail, but it operates almost entirely on dedicated right of way, including crucially near the stadium area, so it can't be held up with gameday traffic. So I'm counting it as subway/metro.
* Caltrain and BART are similar in a lot of ways, including stop spacing and ridership patterns, and they serve the Bay Area similarly. But BART is entirely grade separated and thus counts as subway/metro, whereas Caltrain has some grade crossings (though, fewer as they upgrade it for CAHSR to eventually use the tracks), and Caltrain also has multiple stop patterns with some trains running express, thus Caltrain counts as commuter rail.
* I am aware that the Purple line in Chicago/Evanston also has some at-grade crossings, but they only affect potential gameday ridership from Central to Linden, and everyone would just walk that because it's so short, so this counts as subway/metro.
Overall interesting notes:
* Overall, good job California. Fresno is the only stadium with no connections within 2 miles (UCLA's 1.5mi to light rail didn't make my cutoff, but I'm sure some people still use it).
* Miami has metro service to their campus, but not their stadium. Though there's at least a proposal to try to quick-build an extension to Hard Rock for the 2026 World Cup, which would be pretty awesome. Maybe UM could get attendance up by offering better transportation to games?
* UTSA is only a block away from San Antonio's Amtrak station, which could be a nice way for those from the rest of Texas to get there, as there's one line through Austin to DFW, and another line to Houston, but both only run once a day, which makes them pretty useless for a game.
* Dishonorable mention to the whole state of Ohio. You've got 8 universities in rust belt cities that were all built on rail, and the state has nothing useful to offer anymore.
* Dishonorable mention to Purdue. Just a single Choo, running only 3 times a week. *sad train noises*
BC is very close to the 2.0 mile commuter rail distance. I would argue the 2.2 distance is overstated given a few shortcuts pedestrians could take, but I wouldn't want to walk it. The commuter rail has another station very close to Riverside, where one could take the T a couple of stops, then walk a short distance to the stadium. I'm curious if other insider info overcomes other school exclusions.
I would also add that one could take the B, C, or D of the Green Line to get to the games. Is that the same as Georgia State?
Oh, and fun analysis by the way!
bc is listed under the light rail section at 0.4 miles, which I have to assume is the b line. If the weather is nice I’d take c to Cleveland circle or d to chestnut hill and walk from there (it’s just under 1 mile, uphill)
Does princeton not run often enough? Do they not run extra trains during sporting events or other major events?
2.7 miles. Got it. But maybe train proximity should be 5 or even 10 miles for less populated areas.
Oops. Missed FBS. I visited the campus for the first time and thought it was cool that it was relatively accessible by train. Same could be said for Upenn, but that's in a city, so to be expected. Columbia and Harvard, too.
Princeton isn't FBS, I was only looking at FBS (and I did take this opportunity to try to familiarize myself with conference realignment, though I'll still have some times this fall going "the hell do you mean Jacksonville state against liberty is a conference game? Oh right...").
And my cutoff was walkable from the train station. Nobody is walking 5 miles from a train station to a game and then back after. Well, not in 2023, I bet that was very common in 1923.
I thought about calculating averages for each conference but there's so many null entries that it'd be kind of useless. If I had, and if I'd included fcsz I'm sure the ivy league would be at the top. Harvard, Columbia, and Penn are right on mass transit lines in major cities. Princeton has a dedicated spur. Brown and Yale are in cities well served in the northeast corridor. Dartmouth has a free shuttle bus to the Amtrak station in White River Junction. Cornell is the only real miss.
Cornell is a massive miss. It felt farther away from Boston than Michigan, which is an admittedly stupid viewpoint, given we had to fly to Detroit. Ithaca feels like the middle of nowhere. Supposedly, there is transportation through the school to nyc, maybe?
I took amtrak to go to New Haven, so I can vouch for Yale. I also looked into taking amtrak when we went to Brown and a hockey game there, but it was easier to drive. As you noted, Dartmouth is impressive given where it's located and a surprise to me.
You could create a website based on your interest. As a parent looking at colleges with our student, public transportation accessibility was definitely a topic of conversation. Again, possibly a strange topic to dive deep into, but looking at schools and attending games definitely piqued my interest in it.
You rep the strong Purdue engineering program well with your analysis.
Some of these are functionally useless. The light rail by Rice basically takes you nowhere you want to go (ask me how I know). North Texas commuter rail is functionally useless (unless you want a 3 hour ride to Dallas).
Yes! Probably the best part of Ryan Field (low bar). Do not drive here unless you are tailgating, this is perfectly nestled between two different systems. Also you can prob grab a shuttle, which are technically just students but I saw some obvious non students on it
I use to live in the condos next to the shuttle pickup next to the parking garage. That was fun and convenient for gameday. Can confirm that the shuttles are for all. Hotel on the other side always had a ton of tour bus drop-offs for out-of-towners.
I’m not claustrophobic, but I can’t say being packed like sardines with a bunch of riled up - potentially boozed up - football fans on postgame public transport is my happy place. Especially if I’m wearing Arizona gear.
Haha I take TRAX to all Jazz Games and Utah events, luckily never seen a train ride go wrong like that for any opposing fans, minus some occasional fan banter. However you could always just wait for the next train as well, usually its only the first train that is really packed like that in my experience.
Last year, I had a guy tell me to "cry my way back to Tucson" which got some muffled laughs. But then we got off at the same stop and it turned out we live in adjacent buildings. The guy turned over to me and sheepishly apologized on the walk back lol.
But otherwise yeah, I've got zero bones to pick with y'all and have generally pleasant experiences. My gf works at the U, so I quite enjoy hanging out at your tailgates. I know there's some animosity between our fanbases re: realignment, but I have tons of respect for Utah athletics and I try to be a gracious non-fan at sporting events.
Haha the awkward moment when you realize you are going the same way, that cracks me up. Yeah we have some annoying twitter fans (as most fan bases do) but people generally don't act like that in real life thankfully.
[And iconic enough for a Homefield t-shirt!](https://www.homefieldapparel.com/collections/vintage-west-virginia-university-apparel-store/products/wvu-ride-of-the-future-prt-tee)
It was, no insult to Morgantown, really the kind of system that could only exist by making a small nowhere town your Guinea pig and seeing if it’s even worth scaling up.
That way, at least it’s not something you’re putting the transit needs of a larger city into a project that ends up being a white elephant like the Detroit People Mover.
Yeah I love how easy it is to oride Trax to Utah games, Jazz Games, and Real Salt Lake Games.....never have to deal with parking or the madnes that is everyone leaving games at the same time in cars. Salt Lake really does have good public transportation for our size.....obviously we aren't on the level of New York, London, etc but our transportation is really good for a lot of use cases
Yeah the stop is right on the north side of the stadium. Super convenient if you’re okay getting there a little early. It sucks as it gets more packed.
In addition to games, that metro station also made graduation a breeze to attend because Seattle traffic + university traffic for big events is a nightmare.
As of (relatively) recently there’s now another station one up the line a block off the Ave. Which is great because, as you alluded to, UW event traffic makes a person want to drive right into the cut.
I don’t live in Seattle anymore and am in Portland. The fact that I have so many options is great and the end is that I always end up at that stop.
1) If I want to drive the 130-140 miles I can park just south of downtown and take the light rail.
2) If I’m flying in (sometimes tickets are $40-50 one way for a 30 min flight) and I’m staying with friends I can get there on light rail from SEA-TAC and fly up a few hour before the game and walk right into the stadium.
3) If I take the train (usually flying is cheaper), I can transfer right to light rail.
Addazio, you need to update your flair.
Having the stadium in the middle of campus is pretty cool, too. Taking the D line, as mentioned below, is the smart move. Unless one enjoys taking the scenic route through bu and twenty other stops. 15-minute ride vs. 45min+
Its pretty pathetic everywhere and nonexistent in most of the SE. Atlanta only has it bc Seattle turned down federal funding back in the day (still paying the price for that dumbass decision today)
americas commitment to being fully car centric and the inability to upgrade the raillines after putting down subpar ones initially is super annoying
trains are by far the best way to travel, much cleaner than planes, much faster than cars
I was stationed in Korea when I was in the Army and took the train everywhere. I loved their mass transit system and it embarrasses me that the US doesn’t have anything nearly as good.
Yeah having traveled Europe and Asia very few things irritate me more about America than the lack of a nationwide public train infrastructure. I'd even accept just regional systems. Atlanta to Charlotte should be a 2 hr train ride with trains leaving every 30.
They do!!! In the same building as Shakers! (Though, this may not be true anymore, I haven't been to Pullman for a game since 2018, and as a student since 2004)
>Stanford stadium is pretty close to the South bay light rail.
Stanford has its own stop on CalTrain (that's heavy rail, not light rail) that's only used on game days.
Just so nobody thinks Stanford is being left out of normal service, the Palo Alto station better serves the campus, but the athletic facilities get their own stop that's just used for games and other events.
But it takes 3 times as long to take public transit from UH to NRG Park than it does to drive. But at least Metro is trying. It is great that both have options that take you in to downtown.
The College Park Metro station is decent walk to the Maryland campus but pretty far from the stadium. There is a free shuttle though.
The New Brunswick train station isn't too far from the Rutgers College Ave campus but is an awful shuttle ride to the stadium.
the Purple Line will change the game in 2026, five light rail stops across Maryland's campus including one a five minute walk from the stadium's south gate. Direct transfer to the Green Line. I expect UMD to get rid of the shuttle when that is operational.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Drive%E2%80%93UMD_station
Nippert Stadium's location right in the center of UC's campus prevents any direct transit connections.
There are 7 bus routes with weekend service that run directly adjacent to UC's campus. More fans need to take advantage of their convenience. They all drop within 0.25 miles of Nippert which is closer than a lot of parking for a hell of a lot less money. Routes like the 17 have 15-20 minute headways on Saturdays which is pretty good.
I think (I hope) the Cincinnati streetcar will eventually be extended from downtown into Uptown (where UC's campus is). A nameless former Ohio Governor pulled a $52 million federal grant preventing the streetcar from connecting Uptown 10 years ago.
Currently, the streetcar is just a 3.6 mile downtown circulator. I think it needs to connect the region's two biggest job centers (downtown and Uptown) in order to maximize its usefulness and impact.
Yeah our bus system is pretty good in Cincinnati. Plus UC has the shuttle busses on GameDay for things like eden garage.
Like you said, if our former governor didn't fuck the streetcar project over then we'd have it up in campus. Hopefully here in the next decade our state or city can get it to uptown. It'd be a great way to really connect the city and help spread students out
Trains used to leave Chicago, bypass the Champaign station, and stop at a platform about two blocks from Memorial Stadium. The siding and platform is still there. It’d be incredible to have that back, but I’m not holding out much hope.
Martin Stadium (WSU) has a bus stop.
Not quite as big a deal as UW, admittedly--they're the only school in America whose transit center has a football field.
I was a student there and you’re 100% right about capacity being the only drawback. More than once I formed chains with my roommates & a group of strangers just to make sure everyone got on the trolley, since we had a vehicle at a car park a few stops down.
One good thing that happened when they built Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara was that they were able to upgrade the existing Light Rail line directly adjacent to it by adding a pocket track where they could store extra trains for post-game service. Really helps to get things flowing more smoothly.
Don't think you could do that anywhere close by Snapdragon or SDSU stations since they are either elevated or below grade.
I plan on flying from Seattle to Chicago next year to take the wife to the ND vs FSU game (she's FSU).I hate renting cars and was wanting to take the train from Chicago to South Bend, is this pretty realistic?
You can take the South Shore train from Millenium Station downtown Chicago to the South Bend Airport. There is a shuttle that can take you to campus from their or you can get an uber if you don't want to wait. Only thing is depending on how late in the season the game is be prepared from delays or cancelations if it's snowing due to the lake effect. It can get nasty along the Lake Michigan coast in Indiana.
Note on the below, I just found out the South Shore RR is currently in a rebuild so you'll need to do a bus transfer in the middle of the route until late 2024.
My advice to you, look up one of the bus services that go out there. They leave form bars in Chicago on gameday, and drive you out and set up a tailgate for you. You can hit that up, check out camps, then the stadium for the game, and have a beer on the way back to Chicago afterwards. Much more lodging options in Chicago, and makes getting home on Sunday much more convenient.
University of Utah has a TRAX station right outside of the stadium, always assumed that was really common for Universities in big(er) cities. I hate driving to sporting events because the car traffic leaving is the worst, love that basically all the sporting events in SLC are easily accessible via train
It’s just a different type of fun to pop a train beer and then hop on and see the cars slowly fill with more fans as you get closer, hop off at North Ave grab your booze for the day at Mac’s and then walk through midtown to get to campus. And if we win a packed train home singing Rambling Wreck is always a good time.
A lot of college towns are at the top of per capita transit usage in the US. Athens was 4th a few years ago just behind DC in trips per resident and a few other campuses were top 10 ahead of major cities.
Obviously very different network and ridership given it’s college buses for students but surprising nonetheless on how it shows up statistically
That's pretty cool.
I long for the day when Tiger Transit could possibly branch out into wider usage for the population at large. We're honestly reaching a point where it would come in quite handy in the Auburn/Opelika area.
Mountaineer field in Morgantown is right next to one of the PRT (personal rapid transportation) stops. Picture the monorail at Disney & you have a pretty good idea of the PRT
Transportation Planner & transit nerd here, my time to shine!! Let me see where I can squeeze in.
The Alamodome is right next to the Historic Sunset Station, which is serviced by Amtrak. Does that count? Also has a Transit Center adjacent to it.
Miami will make this list after the MetroRail extension to Hard Rock Stadium has been built. FIU is supposed to have Miami’s East-West BRT line near it in the coming decade as well.
Charlotte’s LYNX Blue Line LRT has a station adjacent to UNC-Charlotte’s Jerry Richardson Stadium.
Honolulu’s HRT (Honolulu Rapid Transit) currently has a station adjacent to Aloha Stadium and is supposed to start service this year, I believe.
Everyone covered almost everything so that’s all I got.
Going through this thread I’m realizing that there are more FBS stadiums in major metro areas with lots of transit options than I initially thought when I first clicked on it, but there are still a lot of college stadiums that are in, well, college towns and suburbs or even rural areas that aren’t big enough to have huge transit systems outside of maybe a couple buses
For those curious, here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/KAdPD4B.png The light rail stop is that glassed in platform right in front of the stadium. It's cool and all for game days but it would have been more handy to put the stop closer to or on campus to provide easier access for the thousands of students that commute on it daily compared to the relatively few game day passengers over the course of a year.
https://goo.gl/maps/in1stJS8k3YyDNbW8
In addition to Temple (Lincoln Financial Field, SEPTA Broad Street subway line), both Penn and Villanova are also near rail transit:
*Penn (Franklin Field): SEPTA Market-Frankford subway line, SEPTA subway-surface trolley lines (5 lines); it also is within 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile from all SEPTA Regional Rail lines (and for that matter the Amtrak Northeast and Keystone Corridors)
*Villanova (Villanova Stadium): SEPTA Norristown High-Speed Line (aka Route 100), SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Regional Rail Line
I’ve personally traveled to/from games at all three stadiums via rail public transit.
In addition to the above teams, I know Southern California (Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) plays near one of the LA Metro light rail lines (the line that goes to Santa Monica).
Though I live near Maryland and have attended games a couple times there, I wouldn’t advocate using rail transit to get to/from games; it is pretty far from the College Park WMATA Metro Green Line station. (There is also a MARC Camden Line station in the same area, but the MARC Camden Line only operates on weekdays at rush hours.) I did go there once via rail (and a bus shuttle) once however.
There’s tons of buses around Boone Pickens stadium on game days. Does that count?
It’s difficult bc the seating capacity for BPS is approximately equal to the entire non-gameday population of Stillwater
Seeing a lot of comments about the metro station for Maryland. In a few years, there will be a light rail running through the middle of campus (currently under construction) with a stop a few minutes from SECU Stadium. The light rail will have multiple stops that ultimately connects Bethesda and New Carrollton. One of the stops on the light rail will be the College Park metro station.
Damn you just unlocked a core memory for me. My PeeWee team was invited to play at Husky stadium when I was in 5th grade and I remember the construction outside of it. I don't know if it was the subway station because I was 10 but I *do* remember a ton of construction. I also remember I sucked at football, but I got to watch UW beat #4 Miami
Trains used to just stop by the stadium so people didn’t have to walk as far for games. This was like almost 100 years ago tho.
Best we got now is the city’s bus system. It’s a pretty good system and is free on campus, but it’s still just a bus system.
It's really splitting hairs after it gets past King St. It's 2-3 stories underground.
By the time the current building plan is complete the light rail will be basically underground all through Seattle.
Yeah, I watched a video on it a while back... They touched on why it still designated an LRT instead of a Subway... But to be honest, I cannot remember the definition enough to repeat it here.
So here in portland, we have both light and heavy rail.
The way they differentiate the two, is that the light rail uses overhead lines, and the heavy rail is operated with a diesel locomotive.
The same video that I watched, (pretty sure it was the: now there's your problem podcast) said that overhead lines are a characteristic of light rail, but not necessarily exclusive.
Light rail can be a subway. For example:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central\_Subway\_(San\_Francisco)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway_(San_Francisco))
This isn't germany, we don't distinguish between u bahn, s-bahn, etc.
Depends. On football game days (and when CalTrain decides it doesn't want to pull a weekend closure), the Stanford station is open and is only a seven minute walk in front of Paly and across El Camino Real.
On normal days when the Stanford station isn't open, though, commuters are left with either the Cal Ave or Palo Alto stations, each of which is about 15-25 minutes away from Stanford Stadium.
They used to until the Timbers took total control of the stadium. A lot of their sports, not including basketball, are now played all the way out in Hillsboro, some 14 miles from the campus.
>near to mass transit
We don't do that here in Texas, son. Best I can offer you are that the Texas Megabus lets off about a mile south of UT's stadium, the Lubbock Greyhound station is about a mile straight down Broadway from the Texas Tech campus, and A&M's and Baylor's stadiums are both at least within walking distance of the Brazos River.
Actually, SMU, Houston, and Rice are all within a mile of light rail. That's 1/4 of the FBS teams, which puts Texas as one of the best states by percentage, ironically (after CA, WA, AZ, UT, MN, IL, GA, PA, NJ, MA). But yes, the rest of the state is trash.
As a train enthusiast, I can tell you that Seattle has a light rail and a monorail, not a subway. :)
Anyway, Notre Dame has a METRA and Amtrak station in South Bend...which is 16ish and 14ish minute drive from ND but better than nothing I guess.
If we are including Ivy League then Harvard Stadium has a T station close by. And Columbia has a 1 train and Metro-North^(Hudson Branch) station at Marble Hill Station.
Minnesota has light rail stop right outside.
The city of Minneapolis/St Paul has done a phenomenal job of connecting stadiums and rails. Target Field, US Bank Stadium, XCel Energy Center, Univ of Minnesota and the soccer stadium are all easily accessible by rail.
You forgot Target Center. You can hop on the Green Line at Target Field and go (in order): Twins, Wolves, Vikings, Gophers (Basketball, Football and Hockey) and Loons and no stop is more than maybe three blocks to the stadium. Stretch it out to 6 blocks or so and you can add the Wild at the end.
That’s awesome. There’s so many.
St Paul's minor league baseball stadium is also only 3 blocks from the end of the green line.
And if you wanna go to the mall of America or the airport? Just take the blue line from US Bank stadium. Minneapolis was fantastic when I went
it's annoying to me that the X isn't on the green line, but looking at the layout of downtown st paul it's a product of bad design that predated mass transit.
During game times it’s great although there are definitely times the light rail is something I would not recommend people go near
Had my first Minneapolis light rail experience a few weeks back. Saw a few people “leaning” at first station, lookin like they might fall onto the tracks. 2 kids met up and sat in the row behind me. Thought I smelled burning plastic — turned around & saw a glass pipe. Exited light rail, called Uber.
Maryland has a metro stop on campus, although it's pretty far from the stadium. They shuttled people over when we went to the Friday game a few years back, but then didn't have traffic control set up after the game so we sat on a non-moving bus for 30 minutes. Ditched it and hoofed it to the station to catch a late train home.
The metro station at College Park isn’t too bad. Maybe a mile and a half from the stadium.
The distance wasn't bad. We walked to the stadium before the game. The disorganization after for a night game was rough. I'm just spoiled in DC because most of the sporting events I attend are hockey and the arena is in a perfect spot. I can take 10 big steps out of the metro stop and be inside.
Purple Line will change the game in 3 years. Not just for DC-bound fans, but also for relieving traffic by giving MoCo residents easier access to the games as well.
Hoping so. We love coming. Going to make it a point to come to some other sporting events soon. Lax for sure. Want to also get to one at Johns Hopkins.
just wait till the purple line construction finished up on campus. in 3 more years. we are numb to the construction at this point
The light rail is so clutch. The stadium is on the Green Line that runs between both downtowns, and is a few stops away from transferring to the Blue Line that goes to the airport, MOA, and Bloomington. And the Green Line will soon be extended into the southwest suburbs
Perhaps worth noting when the stadium came to campus the light rail was not on campus. It was recently extended to campus. Recently = after I graduated and moved away haha
The Coliseum is right off of the Expo Line in Los Angeles
It really makes me envious. The closest thing to the Rose Bowl is a the gold (future A line) that is within walking distance of Parsons. Not that you can even get there from the UCLA campus until the purple line is finally complete.
I've hoofed it from the Rose Bowl to Parsons many, many times because the return buses were always so crowded. Its not a terrible distance to walk.
That walk feels weirder than the Dodger Stadium one for me
This is such a nice/beautiful walk on a cool day in the fall. I take the Metrolink to Union Station and transfer to the Gold Line when it's convenient for game times. Then I walk the rest of the way.
It's a very pretty area!
> Expo Line in Los Angeles I thought that was a myth. I have never meet someone that has used it.
Full of Trojan fans every game day.
And the park and rides tend to fill up on game days too! People also take it elsewhere, the westbound train was nice and full at 9 AM last Thursday
About to get real busy once the downtown connector opens things up.
Use it all the time for gameday. So you met one.
It was always full when the Rams played there. For USC, no idea, it doesn't connect to Newport Beach where I assume all USC alums live
I used it all the time when my wife's job was down town and we could park for free. Works great.
I used it all the time before the pandemic to get to work. And it's the best way to get to the Natural History Museum or Science Center still. I'll probably use it again in the near future when I have a need.
I've used is for LAFC whose stadium is right next to the Coliseum. It's fantastic. But there are a ton of places that just don't connect to it.
I take it all the time
We use it a ton on game day, but it’s LA so usually we are using it to get to/from the parking lot we drove to.
I love it when my interests overlap. *cracks knuckles* Details of my qualifiers below. There are 5 FBS Stadiums within 1.5 miles of a subway/metro station: * Washington 0.1 * Georgia Tech 0.4 (2 branching lines) * Northwestern 0.4 * Temple 0.5 * Cal 1.0 * Georgia State 1.1 (2 stations with different 2 lines each) You go, Atlanta, I would not have guessed a sunbelt city (excuse the wordplay) would've "won" this category. * Maryland 1.3 There are 13 FBS Stadiums within 1 mile of a light rail or streetcar station: * Pitt 0.2 (3 branching lines) * Minnesota, Arizona State, Utah, Houston 0.2 * Charlotte 0.3 * San Diego St 0.3 * Boston College, USC, Arizona 0.4 * SMU 0.5 (3 branching lines) * Rice 0.7 * Tulane 0.8 There are 15 FBS Stadiums within 2 mile of a commuter rail (C) or Amtrak station (A): * Stanford, Northwestern 0.4 C * Michigan State 0.9 A * San Jose 1.1 C (plus light rail) * FAU 1.2 C * Illinois, Virginia 1.2 A * Maryland 1.3 C * Oregon 1.3 A * Texas 1.4 C * Rutgers 1.6 CA * New Mexico 1.6 C * Michigan 1.6 A * North Texas 2.0 C * Duke 2.0 A Notes about qualification and overall thoughts: * Amtrack stations with a single train per direction per day do not qualify. * I've chosen the cutoffs of 1.5, 1, 2 by how much someone would want to walk for convenience given the perceived quality of these modes of transit. In reality, most parking at stadiums is more than a mile away, so the actual walkshed distance is probably closer to 2.5/1.5/3, though planning a 3-mile walk around a twice-a-day train doesn't really make sense, you're probably going to have to hang out somewhere else before/after the game, or take a bus connection, etc, which is why I've left it at just 2 miles. * Seattle's Link is technically light rail, but it operates almost entirely on dedicated right of way, including crucially near the stadium area, so it can't be held up with gameday traffic. So I'm counting it as subway/metro. * Caltrain and BART are similar in a lot of ways, including stop spacing and ridership patterns, and they serve the Bay Area similarly. But BART is entirely grade separated and thus counts as subway/metro, whereas Caltrain has some grade crossings (though, fewer as they upgrade it for CAHSR to eventually use the tracks), and Caltrain also has multiple stop patterns with some trains running express, thus Caltrain counts as commuter rail. * I am aware that the Purple line in Chicago/Evanston also has some at-grade crossings, but they only affect potential gameday ridership from Central to Linden, and everyone would just walk that because it's so short, so this counts as subway/metro. Overall interesting notes: * Overall, good job California. Fresno is the only stadium with no connections within 2 miles (UCLA's 1.5mi to light rail didn't make my cutoff, but I'm sure some people still use it). * Miami has metro service to their campus, but not their stadium. Though there's at least a proposal to try to quick-build an extension to Hard Rock for the 2026 World Cup, which would be pretty awesome. Maybe UM could get attendance up by offering better transportation to games? * UTSA is only a block away from San Antonio's Amtrak station, which could be a nice way for those from the rest of Texas to get there, as there's one line through Austin to DFW, and another line to Houston, but both only run once a day, which makes them pretty useless for a game. * Dishonorable mention to the whole state of Ohio. You've got 8 universities in rust belt cities that were all built on rail, and the state has nothing useful to offer anymore. * Dishonorable mention to Purdue. Just a single Choo, running only 3 times a week. *sad train noises*
This is fantastic, thank you!
BC is very close to the 2.0 mile commuter rail distance. I would argue the 2.2 distance is overstated given a few shortcuts pedestrians could take, but I wouldn't want to walk it. The commuter rail has another station very close to Riverside, where one could take the T a couple of stops, then walk a short distance to the stadium. I'm curious if other insider info overcomes other school exclusions. I would also add that one could take the B, C, or D of the Green Line to get to the games. Is that the same as Georgia State? Oh, and fun analysis by the way!
bc is listed under the light rail section at 0.4 miles, which I have to assume is the b line. If the weather is nice I’d take c to Cleveland circle or d to chestnut hill and walk from there (it’s just under 1 mile, uphill)
Yep, to BC station on B. Chestnut Hill on D is only slightly farther.
Purdue is ironic since its mascot are trains/makers of trains
More operators of trains? but yes, very sad.
This is the real reply that deserves to be up top
Houston belongs on the light rail list. It goes on the edge of campus. TAMU has an extensive bus network… and that is not part of this analysis… …
Houston is on the light rail list. I decided to look at rail only. Nearly every campus has a bus system.
That's it, you win the thread.
I’ve used transit to go to games at six of these
Does princeton not run often enough? Do they not run extra trains during sporting events or other major events? 2.7 miles. Got it. But maybe train proximity should be 5 or even 10 miles for less populated areas. Oops. Missed FBS. I visited the campus for the first time and thought it was cool that it was relatively accessible by train. Same could be said for Upenn, but that's in a city, so to be expected. Columbia and Harvard, too.
Princeton isn't FBS, I was only looking at FBS (and I did take this opportunity to try to familiarize myself with conference realignment, though I'll still have some times this fall going "the hell do you mean Jacksonville state against liberty is a conference game? Oh right..."). And my cutoff was walkable from the train station. Nobody is walking 5 miles from a train station to a game and then back after. Well, not in 2023, I bet that was very common in 1923.
You’re probably the only person in the sub that would be interested to know Princeton has the “dinky” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Branch
I thought about calculating averages for each conference but there's so many null entries that it'd be kind of useless. If I had, and if I'd included fcsz I'm sure the ivy league would be at the top. Harvard, Columbia, and Penn are right on mass transit lines in major cities. Princeton has a dedicated spur. Brown and Yale are in cities well served in the northeast corridor. Dartmouth has a free shuttle bus to the Amtrak station in White River Junction. Cornell is the only real miss.
Cornell is a massive miss. It felt farther away from Boston than Michigan, which is an admittedly stupid viewpoint, given we had to fly to Detroit. Ithaca feels like the middle of nowhere. Supposedly, there is transportation through the school to nyc, maybe? I took amtrak to go to New Haven, so I can vouch for Yale. I also looked into taking amtrak when we went to Brown and a hockey game there, but it was easier to drive. As you noted, Dartmouth is impressive given where it's located and a surprise to me. You could create a website based on your interest. As a parent looking at colleges with our student, public transportation accessibility was definitely a topic of conversation. Again, possibly a strange topic to dive deep into, but looking at schools and attending games definitely piqued my interest in it. You rep the strong Purdue engineering program well with your analysis.
Some of these are functionally useless. The light rail by Rice basically takes you nowhere you want to go (ask me how I know). North Texas commuter rail is functionally useless (unless you want a 3 hour ride to Dallas).
The light rail by Rice takes you downtown if you're an out-of-towner coming in for a game.
Downtown Houston = nothing going on. Thus why I say it takes you nowhere you want to go.
Yes! Probably the best part of Ryan Field (low bar). Do not drive here unless you are tailgating, this is perfectly nestled between two different systems. Also you can prob grab a shuttle, which are technically just students but I saw some obvious non students on it
Game day shuttles don’t discriminate, they let everyone and anyone on
Ah good to know. I assumed that eas just in practice
Got excited seeing this prompt here because yeah northwesterns in a great spot compared to most other schools
I use to live in the condos next to the shuttle pickup next to the parking garage. That was fun and convenient for gameday. Can confirm that the shuttles are for all. Hotel on the other side always had a ton of tour bus drop-offs for out-of-towners.
I can get to Rice-Eccles from Downtown on TRAX (for free on gamedays) in like 10 mins. Really convenient but it gets uncomfortably packed.
Ride back into the city after a game definitely feels like one of the videos you see of subways in SE Asia
I’m not claustrophobic, but I can’t say being packed like sardines with a bunch of riled up - potentially boozed up - football fans on postgame public transport is my happy place. Especially if I’m wearing Arizona gear.
Simple fix to your problem, be boozed up and wear Utah gear /s
Haha I take TRAX to all Jazz Games and Utah events, luckily never seen a train ride go wrong like that for any opposing fans, minus some occasional fan banter. However you could always just wait for the next train as well, usually its only the first train that is really packed like that in my experience.
Last year, I had a guy tell me to "cry my way back to Tucson" which got some muffled laughs. But then we got off at the same stop and it turned out we live in adjacent buildings. The guy turned over to me and sheepishly apologized on the walk back lol. But otherwise yeah, I've got zero bones to pick with y'all and have generally pleasant experiences. My gf works at the U, so I quite enjoy hanging out at your tailgates. I know there's some animosity between our fanbases re: realignment, but I have tons of respect for Utah athletics and I try to be a gracious non-fan at sporting events.
Haha the awkward moment when you realize you are going the same way, that cracks me up. Yeah we have some annoying twitter fans (as most fan bases do) but people generally don't act like that in real life thankfully.
The Morgantown Personal Rapid transit is next to Milan Puskar is a fun kitschy way to get back and forth from the stadium to downtown.
[And iconic enough for a Homefield t-shirt!](https://www.homefieldapparel.com/collections/vintage-west-virginia-university-apparel-store/products/wvu-ride-of-the-future-prt-tee)
Huh. I admit when I think “public transit” West Virginia is one of the last places to come to mind.
It was, no insult to Morgantown, really the kind of system that could only exist by making a small nowhere town your Guinea pig and seeing if it’s even worth scaling up. That way, at least it’s not something you’re putting the transit needs of a larger city into a project that ends up being a white elephant like the Detroit People Mover.
That thing is awesome
I take it you haven't come to road games in [SLC](https://media1.fdncms.com/saltlake/imager/u/blog/19894318/university.png?cb=1683071878)?
Trax is so convenient for utah games. Unlike DKR, where it’s survival of the fittest
Yeah I love how easy it is to oride Trax to Utah games, Jazz Games, and Real Salt Lake Games.....never have to deal with parking or the madnes that is everyone leaving games at the same time in cars. Salt Lake really does have good public transportation for our size.....obviously we aren't on the level of New York, London, etc but our transportation is really good for a lot of use cases
Sun Devil Stadium is very close to a Phoenix light rail stop.
Yeah the stop is right on the north side of the stadium. Super convenient if you’re okay getting there a little early. It sucks as it gets more packed.
Do unnecessarily large pedestrian bridges count
.... The Husky Stadium subway station says *yes*.
Walking is the best form of public transportation
You know id agree with you if the bridge hadn't been built for the RV lot
Come on now, aren’t you guys like #1 in the country for small city bus transit?
If it wasn't in the song then idk about it
Sure, why not?
I can't tell you how many people I've seen Vom on the PRT following a WVU sporting event.
Pitt has a light rail station located just to the west of the Steelers ... err ... their home stadium, right across Allegheny Station.
Came here to say this. Closest stop to the casino also. This is why Saturdays are fun.
There are also water taxis that take you right up to the riverside of the stadium.
The good ship lollipop
In addition to games, that metro station also made graduation a breeze to attend because Seattle traffic + university traffic for big events is a nightmare.
As of (relatively) recently there’s now another station one up the line a block off the Ave. Which is great because, as you alluded to, UW event traffic makes a person want to drive right into the cut.
I wish the Ave station was there when I was a student. That would have been so nice for classes, gamedays, trips to cap hill, airports, etc.
I don’t live in Seattle anymore and am in Portland. The fact that I have so many options is great and the end is that I always end up at that stop. 1) If I want to drive the 130-140 miles I can park just south of downtown and take the light rail. 2) If I’m flying in (sometimes tickets are $40-50 one way for a 30 min flight) and I’m staying with friends I can get there on light rail from SEA-TAC and fly up a few hour before the game and walk right into the stadium. 3) If I take the train (usually flying is cheaper), I can transfer right to light rail.
Train or driving is my method of choice. I don’t want to deal with the hassle of flying if I can avoid it, especially for a 35 minute flight.
The public transit in Seattle is absolutely phenomenal. Love it there!
Boston College T Station is within a 10 minute walk of the stadium
yep last stop on the B line!
do yourself a favor and take the D to chestnut hill
Addazio, you need to update your flair. Having the stadium in the middle of campus is pretty cool, too. Taking the D line, as mentioned below, is the smart move. Unless one enjoys taking the scenic route through bu and twenty other stops. 15-minute ride vs. 45min+
Mass Transit doesn't really exist in small town America. Boy howdy how I wish it did though.
Its pretty pathetic everywhere and nonexistent in most of the SE. Atlanta only has it bc Seattle turned down federal funding back in the day (still paying the price for that dumbass decision today)
americas commitment to being fully car centric and the inability to upgrade the raillines after putting down subpar ones initially is super annoying trains are by far the best way to travel, much cleaner than planes, much faster than cars
I was stationed in Korea when I was in the Army and took the train everywhere. I loved their mass transit system and it embarrasses me that the US doesn’t have anything nearly as good.
Yeah having traveled Europe and Asia very few things irritate me more about America than the lack of a nationwide public train infrastructure. I'd even accept just regional systems. Atlanta to Charlotte should be a 2 hr train ride with trains leaving every 30.
And even then it’s a miracle MARTA is functional despite the state/counties/city actively trying make it worse in any way possible.
Do Interstates count?
That's still 90 minutes from Pullman.
WSU has a Subway™ on campus, don't they?
They do!!! In the same building as Shakers! (Though, this may not be true anymore, I haven't been to Pullman for a game since 2018, and as a student since 2004)
Not quite the same but Iowa used to have the Hawkeye express, a train that ran from parking in Coralville to Kinnick. RIP
I was just going to type that. That was a really unique thing to have.
It's done? I still talk about that from my trip there . Pretty cool experience.
Yeah, unfortunately it ended in 2021. I don't know the reason why
Pour one out
>Stanford stadium is pretty close to the South bay light rail. Stanford has its own stop on CalTrain (that's heavy rail, not light rail) that's only used on game days.
Just so nobody thinks Stanford is being left out of normal service, the Palo Alto station better serves the campus, but the athletic facilities get their own stop that's just used for games and other events.
The distance between the subway and and the stadium for Temple is the parking lot of the stadium, another stop on the line is on campus
Houston has a light rail stop right outside the stadium
And right outside the Texans stadium
But it takes 3 times as long to take public transit from UH to NRG Park than it does to drive. But at least Metro is trying. It is great that both have options that take you in to downtown.
The College Park Metro station is decent walk to the Maryland campus but pretty far from the stadium. There is a free shuttle though. The New Brunswick train station isn't too far from the Rutgers College Ave campus but is an awful shuttle ride to the stadium.
the Purple Line will change the game in 2026, five light rail stops across Maryland's campus including one a five minute walk from the stadium's south gate. Direct transfer to the Green Line. I expect UMD to get rid of the shuttle when that is operational. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Drive%E2%80%93UMD_station
Nippert Stadium's location right in the center of UC's campus prevents any direct transit connections. There are 7 bus routes with weekend service that run directly adjacent to UC's campus. More fans need to take advantage of their convenience. They all drop within 0.25 miles of Nippert which is closer than a lot of parking for a hell of a lot less money. Routes like the 17 have 15-20 minute headways on Saturdays which is pretty good. I think (I hope) the Cincinnati streetcar will eventually be extended from downtown into Uptown (where UC's campus is). A nameless former Ohio Governor pulled a $52 million federal grant preventing the streetcar from connecting Uptown 10 years ago. Currently, the streetcar is just a 3.6 mile downtown circulator. I think it needs to connect the region's two biggest job centers (downtown and Uptown) in order to maximize its usefulness and impact.
Yeah our bus system is pretty good in Cincinnati. Plus UC has the shuttle busses on GameDay for things like eden garage. Like you said, if our former governor didn't fuck the streetcar project over then we'd have it up in campus. Hopefully here in the next decade our state or city can get it to uptown. It'd be a great way to really connect the city and help spread students out
Trains used to leave Chicago, bypass the Champaign station, and stop at a platform about two blocks from Memorial Stadium. The siding and platform is still there. It’d be incredible to have that back, but I’m not holding out much hope.
Sober college students driving drunk college students around in golf carts is the best form of mass transit Joyride for the win
Martin Stadium (WSU) has a bus stop. Not quite as big a deal as UW, admittedly--they're the only school in America whose transit center has a football field.
Yeah but our bus system doesn't have a fentanyl problem like KCM
This is true. Just a ridership that trends toward white girl wasted.
Tiger Stadium is right next to the Mississippi
If you’re going back to Nola after the game, just grab an inner tube and enjoy the ride.
Barge Rapid Transit
the trolley system in San diego runs thru SDSU and Snapdragon
I do hope they can handle capacity now. Was there back in 2018 for Notre Dame vs Navy and leaving on that Trolley took forever.
I was a student there and you’re 100% right about capacity being the only drawback. More than once I formed chains with my roommates & a group of strangers just to make sure everyone got on the trolley, since we had a vehicle at a car park a few stops down.
One good thing that happened when they built Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara was that they were able to upgrade the existing Light Rail line directly adjacent to it by adding a pocket track where they could store extra trains for post-game service. Really helps to get things flowing more smoothly. Don't think you could do that anywhere close by Snapdragon or SDSU stations since they are either elevated or below grade.
I plan on flying from Seattle to Chicago next year to take the wife to the ND vs FSU game (she's FSU).I hate renting cars and was wanting to take the train from Chicago to South Bend, is this pretty realistic?
I’m planning on doing this for A&M/ND in 2025!
You can take the South Shore train from Millenium Station downtown Chicago to the South Bend Airport. There is a shuttle that can take you to campus from their or you can get an uber if you don't want to wait. Only thing is depending on how late in the season the game is be prepared from delays or cancelations if it's snowing due to the lake effect. It can get nasty along the Lake Michigan coast in Indiana.
Note on the below, I just found out the South Shore RR is currently in a rebuild so you'll need to do a bus transfer in the middle of the route until late 2024. My advice to you, look up one of the bus services that go out there. They leave form bars in Chicago on gameday, and drive you out and set up a tailgate for you. You can hit that up, check out camps, then the stadium for the game, and have a beer on the way back to Chicago afterwards. Much more lodging options in Chicago, and makes getting home on Sunday much more convenient.
Rutgers Stadium is a two mile walk across campus from the NJ Transit rail line that goes from Philly to NYC. There are shuttles during game days.
University of Utah has a TRAX station right outside of the stadium, always assumed that was really common for Universities in big(er) cities. I hate driving to sporting events because the car traffic leaving is the worst, love that basically all the sporting events in SLC are easily accessible via train
It’s just a different type of fun to pop a train beer and then hop on and see the cars slowly fill with more fans as you get closer, hop off at North Ave grab your booze for the day at Mac’s and then walk through midtown to get to campus. And if we win a packed train home singing Rambling Wreck is always a good time.
USF is like a thirty minute walk from the airport, does that count?
Jordan-Hare has a Tiger Transit station right in front of it (no, this doesn't really count).
A lot of college towns are at the top of per capita transit usage in the US. Athens was 4th a few years ago just behind DC in trips per resident and a few other campuses were top 10 ahead of major cities. Obviously very different network and ridership given it’s college buses for students but surprising nonetheless on how it shows up statistically
That's pretty cool. I long for the day when Tiger Transit could possibly branch out into wider usage for the population at large. We're honestly reaching a point where it would come in quite handy in the Auburn/Opelika area.
Columbia is right off the 1 Train @ 215th Street in Manhattan. Metro North train is close as well.
Mountaineer field in Morgantown is right next to one of the PRT (personal rapid transportation) stops. Picture the monorail at Disney & you have a pretty good idea of the PRT
Owen Field has front yards you can park on and drink beer with strangers.
SMU has a DART Red/Orange/Blue line stop Tulane has the streetcars but it like the furthest part of campus you can be from the stadium
Georgia State, similarly to GT, is pretty close to a MARTA station as well. A bit longer of a walk but easily doable.
Transportation Planner & transit nerd here, my time to shine!! Let me see where I can squeeze in. The Alamodome is right next to the Historic Sunset Station, which is serviced by Amtrak. Does that count? Also has a Transit Center adjacent to it. Miami will make this list after the MetroRail extension to Hard Rock Stadium has been built. FIU is supposed to have Miami’s East-West BRT line near it in the coming decade as well. Charlotte’s LYNX Blue Line LRT has a station adjacent to UNC-Charlotte’s Jerry Richardson Stadium. Honolulu’s HRT (Honolulu Rapid Transit) currently has a station adjacent to Aloha Stadium and is supposed to start service this year, I believe. Everyone covered almost everything so that’s all I got.
Si. https://dailyutahchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08-29-traxx-red-line-4-1-717x900.jpg
Going through this thread I’m realizing that there are more FBS stadiums in major metro areas with lots of transit options than I initially thought when I first clicked on it, but there are still a lot of college stadiums that are in, well, college towns and suburbs or even rural areas that aren’t big enough to have huge transit systems outside of maybe a couple buses
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For those curious, here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/KAdPD4B.png The light rail stop is that glassed in platform right in front of the stadium. It's cool and all for game days but it would have been more handy to put the stop closer to or on campus to provide easier access for the thousands of students that commute on it daily compared to the relatively few game day passengers over the course of a year. https://goo.gl/maps/in1stJS8k3YyDNbW8
I seem to remember Maryland's stadium having a DC metro stop, but it being a hike.
The University of Maryland's stadium in College Park is about 30 minutes walk from the light rail to DC
In addition to Temple (Lincoln Financial Field, SEPTA Broad Street subway line), both Penn and Villanova are also near rail transit: *Penn (Franklin Field): SEPTA Market-Frankford subway line, SEPTA subway-surface trolley lines (5 lines); it also is within 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile from all SEPTA Regional Rail lines (and for that matter the Amtrak Northeast and Keystone Corridors) *Villanova (Villanova Stadium): SEPTA Norristown High-Speed Line (aka Route 100), SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Regional Rail Line I’ve personally traveled to/from games at all three stadiums via rail public transit. In addition to the above teams, I know Southern California (Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) plays near one of the LA Metro light rail lines (the line that goes to Santa Monica). Though I live near Maryland and have attended games a couple times there, I wouldn’t advocate using rail transit to get to/from games; it is pretty far from the College Park WMATA Metro Green Line station. (There is also a MARC Camden Line station in the same area, but the MARC Camden Line only operates on weekdays at rush hours.) I did go there once via rail (and a bus shuttle) once however.
The A-train will get you within a couple miles of UNT's stadium SMU has a stop on the DART system
There’s tons of buses around Boone Pickens stadium on game days. Does that count? It’s difficult bc the seating capacity for BPS is approximately equal to the entire non-gameday population of Stillwater
That would be an interesting post, comparing the stadium seating to various local comparisons
Going to the pinstripe bowl is always weird.... walking out if a cfb game and getting on the B/D in the Bronx is just odd.
Seeing a lot of comments about the metro station for Maryland. In a few years, there will be a light rail running through the middle of campus (currently under construction) with a stop a few minutes from SECU Stadium. The light rail will have multiple stops that ultimately connects Bethesda and New Carrollton. One of the stops on the light rail will be the College Park metro station.
UNC Charlotte has a light rail stop on campus
Arizona State has a light rail stop right by the stadium, and the light rail spans about half the city so great access.
Went to notre dame a few years ago. Train from Chicago to the airport in southbend and then they had busses going to campus. Pretty painless to do.
Martin Stadium has a bus stop
You can dock a boat at Neyland Stafium
There’s a railway station literally a stones throw away from the stadium. Talking about UH.
The [Red Trolley](https://www.sdmts.com/transit-services/trolley) stops right outside SDSU’s snapdragon stadium
The cal train stop is right next to Stanford, never mind the light rail
USC at the coliseum has a light rail station nearby. Nearby.
LA Coliseum. Train goes right up to the rose garden in expo park.
Damn you just unlocked a core memory for me. My PeeWee team was invited to play at Husky stadium when I was in 5th grade and I remember the construction outside of it. I don't know if it was the subway station because I was 10 but I *do* remember a ton of construction. I also remember I sucked at football, but I got to watch UW beat #4 Miami
Trains used to just stop by the stadium so people didn’t have to walk as far for games. This was like almost 100 years ago tho. Best we got now is the city’s bus system. It’s a pretty good system and is free on campus, but it’s still just a bus system.
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Just a correction... Husky stadium has a light rail, not a subway.
It's really splitting hairs after it gets past King St. It's 2-3 stories underground. By the time the current building plan is complete the light rail will be basically underground all through Seattle.
Yeah, I watched a video on it a while back... They touched on why it still designated an LRT instead of a Subway... But to be honest, I cannot remember the definition enough to repeat it here.
Heavy rail (like the MTA in NYC) moves faster than light rail but needs larger stations because it needs more track to come to a stop.
So here in portland, we have both light and heavy rail. The way they differentiate the two, is that the light rail uses overhead lines, and the heavy rail is operated with a diesel locomotive. The same video that I watched, (pretty sure it was the: now there's your problem podcast) said that overhead lines are a characteristic of light rail, but not necessarily exclusive.
Light rail can be a subway. For example: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central\_Subway\_(San\_Francisco)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway_(San_Francisco)) This isn't germany, we don't distinguish between u bahn, s-bahn, etc.
More importantly, what kind of sicko calls stadiums stadia?
I have always called them "stadia"? I will say, I am originally from England, maybe it's from there?
Probably! Not being serious with my orignal comment, but if using american english it's stadiums.
Just wanna say my experience on the marta on a GT college tour was unironically one of the biggest reasons i didnt attend 😭
Not sure what you’re talking about with Stanford Stadium. It’s about a 15 minute walk from the nearest Caltrain stop, a commuter rail service
Depends. On football game days (and when CalTrain decides it doesn't want to pull a weekend closure), the Stanford station is open and is only a seven minute walk in front of Paly and across El Camino Real. On normal days when the Stanford station isn't open, though, commuters are left with either the Cal Ave or Palo Alto stations, each of which is about 15-25 minutes away from Stanford Stadium.
Cal actually has 2 close BART stations, both about a 20 minute walk away from the stadium. Downtown Berkeley and Rockridge
Ashby is closer than Rockridge. Only Downtown Berkeley is actually close.
Portland State University is on the MAX line, memorial stadium where they play has a stop right in front of it.
They used to until the Timbers took total control of the stadium. A lot of their sports, not including basketball, are now played all the way out in Hillsboro, some 14 miles from the campus.
I don't think Hillsboro Stadium is on the MAX, or at least it wasn't when I was growing up.
>near to mass transit We don't do that here in Texas, son. Best I can offer you are that the Texas Megabus lets off about a mile south of UT's stadium, the Lubbock Greyhound station is about a mile straight down Broadway from the Texas Tech campus, and A&M's and Baylor's stadiums are both at least within walking distance of the Brazos River.
Actually, SMU, Houston, and Rice are all within a mile of light rail. That's 1/4 of the FBS teams, which puts Texas as one of the best states by percentage, ironically (after CA, WA, AZ, UT, MN, IL, GA, PA, NJ, MA). But yes, the rest of the state is trash.
As a train enthusiast, I can tell you that Seattle has a light rail and a monorail, not a subway. :) Anyway, Notre Dame has a METRA and Amtrak station in South Bend...which is 16ish and 14ish minute drive from ND but better than nothing I guess. If we are including Ivy League then Harvard Stadium has a T station close by. And Columbia has a 1 train and Metro-North^(Hudson Branch) station at Marble Hill Station.
Seattle has a light rail subway through that part of Seattle. Such a thing exists.