For the second year in a row, visitors were offered free parking at the Bricktown parking garage and the Main Street lots during the Thunder’s first game of the season. Free shuttle rides were added to and from the Ford Center this time around.
"Ridership was low,” said Jim Cowan, director of the Bricktown Association. "They only carried 20 people before the game. And the lots only parked 35 cars (they have capacity for about 1,300).”
Operators of the garage, meanwhile, reported still having 200 open spaces as the game started.
"This all just goes to show parking is not as big a deal as it used to be,” Cowan said. "We’re managing it better than we were two years ago. It doesn’t mean we can’t make it better and we’re still working on recommendations from a parking study that was done, including getting attendants to wear uniforms with logos.”
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