News
August 6, 2008
Traffic Plan for Saturday's Titans-Rams Game
Traffic in the downtown area Saturday afternoon and evening will be heavier than normal due to the 7 p.m. sold-out NFL preseason game between the Tennessee Titans and St. Louis Rams at LP Field.
By 4:30 p.m., the Woodland Street Bridge will close to regular traffic and be available only to pedestrians and shuttle buses.
Fans parking north of Broadway, and those who use state parking lots, can safely walk across the Woodland Street Bridge from downtown to LP Field. For fans parking along and south of Broadway, the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge will provide safe, enjoyable and easy access to the game.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge (Gateway Bridge), which connects East Nashville to 4th Avenue North, will be open to eastbound and westbound traffic until moments before the conclusion of each game this season. However, there will be no access to the LP Field campus to eastbound traffic coming across the bridge from the downtown area in the two-hour period before each game (eastbound vehicles coming across the bridge will not be allowed to turn left onto the LP Field campus).
At the conclusion of each game this year, all lanes of the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge will be open to westbound traffic only, which should more quickly disperse congestion around LP Field.
Gates to LP Field will open at 5 p.m. Saturday. Stadium parking lots will open at 3 p.m. to Titans fans with parking passes. Football fans are reminded that only persons with parking passes will be allowed to park on the stadium campus. Fans without parking passes who drive to the LP Field campus will be turned away. Those fans are urged to save time and find parking in the downtown area and walk to LP Field or ride an InShuttle Transportation, Inc. shuttle bus.
InShuttle will provide express bus service for this game from the State Fairgrounds off Wedgewood Avenue, and 10th Circle North downtown (off Charlotte across from TSU’s downtown campus), beginning 90 minutes before kickoff. The cost for a roundtrip shuttle ticket is $10 per person.
After the game, football fans are asked to be patient as police officers work to direct traffic away from LP Field as quickly and efficiently as possible.