screen shot: Twitter: @billy_rothman
If you are tending tonight’s Capitals-Hurricanes Stadium Series Game and you haven’t left for the stadium already, you might think about doing so. We are receiving a number of reports that traffic has already become an issue.
We have received a number of emails, messages, video, texts, etc. from our readers that things are already mess in Raleigh. NoVa Caps reader Alex Parr sent us this video at 2:30PM.
Getting plenty of reports, messages, emails, video from our followers that traffic is already a mess in Raleigh. #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/21y4nNzhVj
— NoVa Caps (@NoVa_Caps) February 18, 2023
Billy Rothman also replied to our initial Tweet, confirming the developing mess in and around Carter-Finley Stadium.
Awesome tailgate scene @Canes @NHL pic.twitter.com/dCWt5FSLyb
— Billy Rothman (@billy_rothman) February 18, 2023
Puck drop for tonight’s Capitals-Hurricanes game is set for just after 8PM. Hopefully every one will make in time for the start.
Been in traffic line for 2 hours. Not an end in sight. No cops directing traffic. Just an absolute shit show. You should be ashamed of yourselves. @Canes @RaleighGov @NHL fucking embarrassment.
— NORTHENDCAP (@NORTHENDCAP1) February 18, 2023
You think getting there was a pain. Wait until the game is over.
Purgatory.
Yet another national display of our carbrained country’s total ineptitude.
Welcome to Raleighwood.
Leaving will be the real nightmare stories.
What a nightmare scene it was.
for football and hockey games, most folks have prepaid passes and assigned spots, so parking runs much smoother.
Whenever there is a concert or a university graduation or some other big event where they are charging differently for parking, it completely bogs down anywhere near the stadium.
All the locals know this, but word doesn’t always get to the out of town folks
I tailgated at the Breeze Thru on Edwards and Trinity, arriving at 9:30am, and watched as the whole thing unfolded, with the main lots not opening until 2pm. Cars were staging in the area ahead of time, then it became backed up around 1pm or so, and yes, confirming officers did not deploy to that area until it was way too late to alleviate. A fellow tailgater did a lap around area around Noon and said the law was told to by the NHL to not open anything until 2 (unconfirmed). It could have been done better.