JONESBORO, Ark.
(10/27/11) – Saturday's home football game against North Texas marks the
University's homecoming and fans are encouraged to be aware of parking
procedures in place for the game.
The following
procedures will be used to expedite parking during the 2011 season:
Traffic flow on
Olympic Drive will be northbound only and no one will be allowed to turn from
Stadium Boulevard west on to Alumni without a parking pass.
Fans that do
not have a parking pass have a number of options this season. Fans wishing to
park in the paid parking lot areas and are coming from the north are asked to
stay on Johnson Avenue and turn onto A Street. Fans approaching from the south
are asked to turn west onto Aggie Drive off of Stadium Boulevard and then turn
north onto Olympic Drive. All paid parking is $10.
Fans wishing to
park in the general parking area and who come from the north are asked to stay
on Johnson Avenue and turn south onto University Loop East. They will then go
east on Aggie and then turn north onto Olympic Drive. Fans who come to the
stadium from the south are asked to turn west on Aggie Drive off of Stadium Boulevard
and then turn north onto Olympic Drive.
Fans holding
Purple, Yellow and Green parking passes are asked to enter the lots by turning
south on to A Street off Johnson Avenue. Fans holding Red, Black, Blue or White
parking permits are asked to enter those lots by turning west off of Stadium
Boulevard on to Alumni Boulevard.
Fans with
Platinum, Orange and Gold parking passes are asked to enter those lots by
turning east on A Street off of University Loop. Access these lots by turning
on A Street off of Johnson Avenue will NOT be permitted.
Additionally,
there will be buses provided by JETS that can be used as transportation to and
from the stadium by fans wishing to park at the City of Jonesboro parking lot
at the intersection of Cate Avenue and Church Street across from the old
Mercantile Bank/Union Planters Bank building. The JETS fare will be $1.25 each
way for adults, 90 cents each way for students with a current ASU student ID
and 60 cents for passengers 65 or older.
Prior to the
game, the JETS buses will load at 2:55, 3:25, 3:55, 4:25, 4:55 and 5:25 in the
afternoon. The buses will unload at the Northwest corner of ASU Stadium near
gate 11.
Buses will
begin loading passengers to return to the parking lot 10 minutes after the end
of the game and will depart approximately 20 minutes after the game is over.
Busses will load in the ASU Stadium parking lot near gate 11.