Unhappy with their lot in life

I went to the opening day at Dodger Stadium and the new parking plan is terrible. It took me one hour to drive one mile from the 110 to the entrance of the parking area.

After the game, it took me two hours just to get out of my parking space. There were few parking people and the ones I did see did not seem to care. I have always had positive experiences at Dodger Stadium. Until now.

LAWRENCE MCCARTHY

Wilmington

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The situation in the Dodger Stadium parking lots makes the sailing of the Titanic look like a success.

MIKE REGER

Yorba Linda

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I am home from opening day and I can simply tell you that getting into the stadium took much longer than it ever has before, and getting out after the game was a total disaster.

We always come into the stadium the same way (Elysian Park Boulevard coming away from Sunset) and always park in the same lot. We were routed into a part of the lot farthest from the exit aisle by a large cadre of green-clad parking lot personnel.

After the game, those folks were just standing around at the parking lot exit, providing no aid in keeping the traffic moving smoothly. It probably took a half-hour longer than it ever has to get out of the lot and onto Sunset.

And all this service cost us $5 more than a year ago.

ARNOLD LESTER

Brentwood

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Opening day was an experience to remember and to forget. My son and I got within a mile of the Stadium Way offramp without incident. Then the fun began. It took a full hour to get from the sign that says “Stadium Way 1/4 mile” to our parking space, a distance of about a mile.

Now how in the world could that happen?

Well, if you take all of the cars coming into the stadium from any of the four entrances and continue funneling them down until you create a single-file line, you are going to create quite a backup. Is it true that someone was paid to come up with this plan?

And getting out of the stadium at the end of the day was worse. I am not sure why because, being stuck in Lot 10, I had a very limited view of the “whole picture,” but a large group of us sat in our cars and never moved an inch for the better part of an hour.

Memo to Mr. McCourt: If you cannot correct this situation, you would be missing an opportunity in not putting a concession stand and a couple of Porta Pottis in Lot 10.

LARRY WEINER

Culver City

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I’m frankly shocked to hear that the new Dodger Stadium parking arrangement was a fiasco, especially when they were forced to raise parking fees by 50% to cover the huge new payroll of all the new parking lot employees, who must have been working their tails off to make sure things went smoothly.

After finally getting Ned Coletti and those other “baseball experts” he hired to make the team better, you’d think that the one area that Frank McCourt could put his skills to use would have been the parking lot.

SHAUN MASON

Los Angeles

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After arriving to opening day 90 minutes early via the 110 Freeway, I dutifully followed the parking attendants to Lot 10. After the game, it took me two hours to exit the stadium.

Until this parking plan is scrapped, I’m not attending any more Dodgers games. Period.

BILL RAGGIO

Tarzana

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After experiencing first-hand the disaster created by Frank McCourt, I will never drive to Dodger Stadium again. Of course getting in and out of the stadium has always been difficult, but not the mess they have created with this ill-conceived idea.

STEVE OWEN

San Diego

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Saturday’s letters section will no doubt contain a lot of cannonballs aimed at McCourt’s new parking plan. If Angelenos were honest with themselves, they’d realize the fault is not with ownership, but with a city that hasn’t provided a viable plan for game-day public transportation in 45 years of the stadium’s existence.

MIKAEL ROMANO

Valley Village