The cars are filling every inch of (paved) open space, but there's a lot less (paved) open space. Instead, you've got commerce, residence, what you might call a city surrounding Fenway.

The parking lots you do see are shared lots, meaning they don't lie completely empty the rest of the year.

And, the T is, as they say suboptimal. But, it's still more than adequate to handle the thundering herds on the way to the game.

The point isn't that Fenway is optimized on all fronts. Even though it isn't optimized, it doesn't need dedicated parking to bang the place out night-in and night-out.

You could build a pretty nice mixed-use development in the shadow of Citi Field and attract just as many fans.

Fenway may have no _dedicated_ parking, but I see cars filling every inch of open space for quite a ways around the ballpark.

As for the vaunted T: God help you if you rely on that and your game goes into extra innings.

Aligning home plate to home plate, the gray areas in the picture represent the dedicated parking for Citi Field. Fenway has virtually no dedicated parking.

The green arrow in the picture shows the location of the Kenmore Square T station.

Check out the parking.

Compare to the similarly sized Fenway Park.

The team also had a very well-publicized campaign -- featuring everyone's favorite Mr. Met! -- to encourage fans onto mass transit, as well as lobbied the MTA to add more LIRR service. They didn't cry a Hackensack river about losing 2,500 spots during the construction.

Keep in mind that the parking increase coincides with a nearly 7,000-seat reduction in seating capacity (new stadium compared to old). And, that there will be a new Metro-North station, which will make the new stadium even more transit-accessible than the old.

The Yankees would probably have little problem selling the new place out with transit-riders only.

A commenter on the earlier post, got to the heart of it: it's not easy to get from New Jersey to the stadium by transit. The Yankees need to cultivate New Jersey fans to maintain the enormous television revenues they get out of New Jersey. (It's my own theory that fans consider a team a home team only to the extent that they can consider attending a game, even if they never do.)

The way to cultivate New Jersey fans is to provide ample parking.

Is there similar grabhanding going on in Queens? Don't think so -- that's why I'm a Mets fan.

I mean, when a grocery store opens in the 'burbs, it's gotta be taxpayer money paying to pave, right? Or the pharmaceutical companies with their HQ's in Jersey - they don't actually use land they bought but land that was formally used for Little League games, right?

Why should the Yankees cough up the change to rake in the billions?

Park-and-rides are not the answer:
http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2007/08/park-and-rides-are-not-answer.html

If we are going to pay, these ought to at least be park and ride lots for the subway.

Or maybe it's second to our lovefest with the automobile, and our continued willingness to throw money at oil companies and highways.

Either way, we're screwed.

The $72 million for parking described in the article would go a long way towards initiating well-designed long-term urban hybrid human-electric transport and transit to provide serious transportation solutions well into the next century.

It's hard to imagine cars being tolerated even twenty years from now, especially when considering the current and ever worsening disaster in China.

PlaNYC? What?