Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder said that he "plans to
spend about" $35M to "build as many as" 7,000 additional
parking spaces at Redskins Stadium to correct problems which
caused "massive tie-ups" before and after Sunday's game,
according to Alan Sipress of the WASHINGTON POST. Snyder
said that he's "planning to negotiate the purchase of" two
parcels, totaling about 30 acres, adjacent to the stadium
lots. Snyder, who "cautioned" that the new spaces "would
not be available this season": "We're going to build what
should have been built two years ago." Sunday's traffic
"backed up" for 20 miles and left fans "scavenging for
parking deep" into the first half (WASHINGTON POST, 9/14).
In DC, David Nakamura writes under the header, "Redskins
Fans Seeing Red Over Parking," that fans "fumed about the
ticketing and towing of cars that attended the long traffic
delays and overflowing parking lots, testing the limits of
their patience." Many fans "called Redskins headquarters in
Ashburn to complain" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/14).
SUITE DAYS, INDEED: Also in DC, Grove & Berselli report
that among those in Snyder's private suite at Sunday's game
were AOL CEO Steve Case, Redskins Minority Owner Fred
Drasner, BET CEO Robert Johnson, Marriott Corp.'s Bill
Marriott and attorney Lloyd Cutler (WASHINGTON POST, 9/14).
