Playoff baseball. Hawks and the Bucs. Sounders and the hated Timbers. More than 100,000 people are going to be pouring into the Stadium District on Saturday and Sunday.
It was only 159 games ago when we went to catch a Mariners game at T-Mobile on the same day as the truck rally next door at Lumen Field. It was brutal getting around, and I ended up paying $95 for parking.
Now imagine going to a playoff Mariners game when the Seahawks and Sounders are playing next door. What is parking going to cost this weekend? How is the city going to manage all that traffic?
I had a chance to speak with the interim director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Adiam Emery, about the preparations.
“It will be congested,” she said. “It will be constrained. You’re absolutely right. Comin