Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but apparently there was gridlock at the South Philly sports complex on Thursday night. The Eagles played the Bungles at the Linc and there was a Nate Bargatze comedy show at the Wells Fargo Center across the street. It seems as though they once again did the thing where they closed off highway exits, and that resulted in some people sitting in their cars for 3+ hours, trying to get into the lots:
A reader sent us some more specifics.
Their experience, paraphrased:
You guys have to write about the absolute shit show of traffic. We left my house at 5:30p in Delco, takes about 30 minutes to get to Wells Fargo Center. Bargatze show was at 7 p.m., but Broad Street exit off 95 was closed by the police. Then we were re-routed, saying we would get to the lot at 8 p.m. Wife and I ended up bailing and we went to dinner in South Philly instead..
Reader pointed us to a thread at R/Bargatze, where other unfortunate souls shared their experience:
- Anyone else not even make it to the show because of the abysmal traffic control at the Wells Fargo Center and Lincoln Financial Field? Apparently they started the show late because half the audience hadn’t arrived yet. They closed off access points to Wells Fargo (11th st, Darien st) because of the Eagles game. We finally got out of there after sitting in traffic for 3 hours straight.
- 3 hours from cherry Hill NJ. Maybe saw 25 minutes of his act. Horrible traffic
- We drove in from Jersey and it typically takes us 1hr and 10mins. Left at 5:15 and gave up at 8:30 because we weren’t even close to getting into the lot. The fact that all lot entrances were blocked off and they funneled all cars into one entrance is crazy. Poor planning with the Eagles game and no where near enough staff to direct traffic. Bought 7th row tickets as a Xmas present for my wife. Currently sitting in a Jersey diner instead at 9:45. Ridiculous.
- What in the ever-living fuck was that all about? My wife and I sat on 95 for 2 hours before calling it at 8:30 and we weren’t even close to getting onto Broad street. Turned around at the next exit and saw that the Broad St exit northbound on 95 was blocked off by police. Like Jesus tap dancing Christ, was this just a logistical fucking nightmare?
- Same! Saw 45 mins of show–3 hours of traffic! Total bust of a night
- Left New Jersey at 3:45 and four hours later, we couldn’t get close to getting off of that final exit by the Eagles stadium. It was genuinely sad and frustrating.
- I got out of my car to talk to other drivers and the Eagles people were basically told to go to one lot, then got turned away and sent to another...
Crossing Broad
