Jiffy Lube Live

Nissan Pavilion will now be known as Jiffy Lube Live….. hahha, what a terrible name.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2010/01/nissan_pavilion_is_now_jiffy_l.html

We've discussed this at length in the last few days.

ahh somehow i missed that conversation

New and Lubier Policies for 2011:

No Tailgating!!! 
Parking Lots Won't Open until 1 Hour Before Show!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jiffy-lube-live-bans-tailgating/2011/05/16/AFaL9C5G_story.html

Ugh.

I couldn't care less about tailgating, but the parking lot change sounds disastrous.

DotTheEyes wrote:
… but the parking lot change sounds disastrous.

I agree!

Will be interesting to see how this affects general traffic in the area and the ability for the audience to get in before the show starts.

Wonder how many accidents this will inadvertently cause due to the congestion? Maybe even impede emergencies trying to get to the hospital and such. Sometimes I wonder about the logic of those who come up with this stuff when looking at the big picture. If anything, it seems they should provide a few food vendors to provide a little lite fare for those rushing from work without dinner. They don't have to sell alcohol but water and soft drinks would be nice. Make a little money and stagger the traffic which should benefit the entire community.

this venue is a perfect example of why No Va sucks, I mean objectively speaking – they just build stuff with no thought as to how people will get there.  Everyone knew this venue would be a nightmare to get to even when it was still on the drawing board, and it's also a nightmare for anyone else who happens to be traveling in the area, and years later it is apparently no better.

?It?s probably going to be an issue for the first concert or two,? Chinn said.

I bet.

No thanks.

Mission accomplished.  No way those Toby Keith, Jimmy Buffett and Lil Wayne fans are going to figure out how to get under the influence now.  Although I'd go a step further and close the lots one hour AFTER the show too so that the thousands still sitting in their cars at a standstill in the lot, wondering why they haven't moved, who may try drinking to ward off suicidal thought or to try and salvage positive memories of the show, can't get on the road at all and endanger themselves and others.

Great, one less reason to travel to NoVa.  Now if they could only move DCA.

now . . . if we could just make merriweather go away, this area would be in business.

agree, Lube/Nissan is horrible all around. If you haven't been there, go - then comment with your experience.

Nothing like a bunch of corporate hacks defending eliminating tailgating by standing behind reducing drunk driving. Like they'd give two fucking shits if their profits on beer and concession sales would have been up.

What a disaster of a fucking venue.

The reasoning is so laughable: "We're trying to eliminate drunk driving after the show by eliminating the activities that go on before the show".

You guys do realize that if you leave during the encore and have a fast set of walking legs, you can beat the crowd and not wait in the lot 3.5 hours, right?

I haven't been to Nissan, but that's certainly been the case with every other music shed/sporting venue I've been to.

James wrote:
You guys do realize that if you leave during the encore and have a fast set of walking legs, you can beat the crowd and not wait in the lot 3.5 hours, right?

I haven't been to Nissan, but that's certainly been the case with every other music shed/sporting venue I've been to.

Yeah, real cost effective! Pay too much for a ticket and then run out before what is often the best part of many concerts. Besides, why should one have to forfeit the winning home run, so to speak, just because said venue can't manage their traffic flow properly?

Of course, by your plan, you would still have a traffic mess if the majority of people left before the encore and the band gets confused and sort of insulted by very few fans left for the bonus set. It all just starts earlier but would still go through the same congested motions.

If you're that much of an idiot that you have to see every last song, then you deserve to sit in a parking lot for 3.5 hours.

Thank god there's alot of idiots out there. Allows for my plan to work every time.

Jaguar wrote:

James wrote:
You guys do realize that if you leave during the encore and have a fast set of walking legs, you can beat the crowd and not wait in the lot 3.5 hours, right?

I haven't been to Nissan, but that's certainly been the case with every other music shed/sporting venue I've been to.

Yeah, real cost effective! Pay too much for a ticket and then run out before what is often the best part of many concerts. Besides, why should one have to forfeit the winning home run, so to speak, just because said venue can't manage their traffic flow properly?

Of course, by your plan, you would still have a traffic mess if the majority of people left before the encore and the band gets confused and sort of insulted by very few fans left for the bonus set. It all just starts earlier but would still go through the same congested motions.

James wrote:
If you're that much of an idiot that you have to see every last song, then you deserve to sit in a parking lot for 3.5 hours.

Just because you are not a big music fan does not make those who prefer to see the entire show idiots. It just makes you an arrogant music fan. It also does not change the fact that there is still a major traffic management problem.  ::)

Well also, the shows that James Ford goes to (apparently to see and be seen since the music isn't a priority for him) are mostly populated by fat old people who take much longer to waddle to their minivans.

Also you've got to love such a know-it-all post that's introduced with "I've never actually been to this place BUT HERE IS THE SUPREME KNOWLEDGE YOU IDIOTS"