Jim Weaver's going to get grilled on tonight's Hokie Hotline concerning the
huge traffic jam into Lane Stadium on Saturday. Nearly every gate into Lane was
backed up, and a large number of fans missed the run out of the tunnel, and also
missed kickoff, due to slow entry into the gates.
Most reports at this point are anecdotal, of course, and it's hard for me
to pin down why things were so slow. One TSL poster reported that he
got into line 30 minutes before kickoff and still didn't make it into the
stadium. I personally didn't leave early, arriving in line at about 1:20, ten
minutes before kickoff, at the southeast corner of the stadium. That corner is
famous for big traffic jams, which is part of the reason that a new gate was
created behind the East stands, but the logjam on Saturday was bigger than
usual.