[ADob]

What would you see as making it less accessible than folk fest or great outdoors festival? Both of those saw well over 1000+ bikes used. Riverhawks lock up area is usually only a few dozen.

Agreed. It's literally in the river valley and linked to many bike paths, so yeah, pretty much on par with folk fest re: location and accessibility. Perhaps it's the intended audience? Folk fest tends to draw the hippy dippy bike types (and I say that with much love and admiration), but perhaps the baseball crowd is different? Even so, watching people leaving the parking lot after a game (we can see it from our balcony), it looks like something I'd skip if at all possible. Like with hockey games at the old coliseum - no way in hell would I have wanted to be stuck in that traffic. Advertising secure bike parking would likely get some takers.

 

[thommyjo]

Agreed. It's literally in the river valley and linked to many bike paths, so yeah, pretty much on par with folk fest re: location and accessibility. Perhaps it's the intended audience? Folk fest tends to draw the hippy dippy bike types (and I say that with much love and admiration), but perhaps the baseball crowd is different? Even so, watching people leaving the parking lot after a game (we can see it from our balcony), it looks like something I'd skip if at all possible. Like with hockey games at the old coliseum - no way in hell would I have wanted to be stuck in that traffic. Advertising secure bike parking would likely get some takers.

Yeah, baseball might attract a bit more country or suburban crowd than folk fest.

But when I think of our bike paths in the core, this pic shows all the routes you can access that are very safe for all confidence levels to bike, about 20 minutes to the ballpark from anywhere on here. And this is around 300k people served. Surely there’s hundreds of people from this catchment going to every game, if not 1000-2500 when you think of all the young adults and students going.

If more of them bike, that’ll really help traffic and parking issues. Not sure why the Riverhawks haven’t promoted that more.

When people legitimately spend 45-90 minutes getting out of there as drivers, even just walking to muttart LRT, jasper ave LRT, parking at kinsmen, etc all make way more sense.