Originally Posted by
DU82
How do you get to the concourse from Science Drive? Drive? Walk all the way to TowerView and enter there? Not reasonable for pedestrians, especially when Duke directs patrons to the lots on Science Drive (the lot next to 751 for instance.)
My comment about the path along the turf field heading to Cameron is from my inviting my former boss to the NC State game (not to mention every game after it's rained.) He needs a wheelchair to get around, and I park in the 751 lot. Trying to get from that lot to the soccer stadium was a challenge, because of the lack of proper pedestrian facilities, he had to travel in the street, with traffic going both ways. There's no sidewalk from the 751 lot to Science Drive, so he had to be in the ingress driveway, while cars are entering (there were cars/parking bumpers in the way to get to the egress driveway.) Then he had to go up a driveway to the path next to the turf field, which is asphalt and a mess. All this money, and Duke can't spend a little money to do something simple and necessary. It's a basic need to connect all public facilities with proper paths.
The article mentioned Duke trying to circumvent the process. That's absolutely right, and unfortunately a typical attitude of the Duke administration in these areas.
(As an aside, yes, we could have parked in the handicapped parking area, however the carts used provided no ability to put my boss's wheelchair up on the cart so that he wouldn't have to wheel up the steep hill at Whitford, which, after you're up the hill, you're dropped into the street/parking area as well.)
While on this rant, those heading to Cameron from the soccer stadium (those of us who parked in the 751 lot, or on Bassett Drive) who were following the pedestrian paths provided were usually confonted by having the visiting team's bus parked on the asphalt path connecting the soccer stadium to Whitfield. Really good planning there, too.
(Mods, let me know when to take this to the public policy board, I know it's getting close.)