Park + Ride - New plans for parking at the Waldstadion

The forest car park at the Commerzbankarena is to become the Park + Ride car park to relieve traffic in the city center.

• Again and again parking chaos around the Commerzbankarena
• Parking spaces fully occupied hours before the Grönemeyer concert
• Capacity exhausted

Update from Thursday (05.03.2020), 1:02 p.m .:

The parking chaos around the Commerzbankarena in Frankfurt always makes waves when major events take place. The parking lots there should now also relieve the city center, but this requires more parking spaces. The Roman coalition in Frankfurt has already called for a new parking garage for visitors to the Comerzbank Arena.

The parking garage should not only improve the situation at the Commerzbank Arena, but also relieve the traffic and parking situation in downtown Frankfurt. If there are no events, the parking garage should serve as a park + ride option.

Until the parking garage goes into operation, the forest parking lot on the B44 should become a free park + ride parking lot . From there, the bus line 61 is to run from the Stadion Osttribüne stop to the Südbahnhof every five minutes from 7 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

On days when major events take place, the parking lot may only be used up to two hours before the start of the event for the Park + Ride. At the Herbert Grönemeyer concert last autumn, however, this parking lot was fully occupied an hour and a half before the start.

Update from Tuesday (10.09.2019), 1:17 p.m .: "There are simply not enough parking spaces." Gert Stahnke, head of the Frankfurt Road Traffic Office, puts the traffic situation around the Commerzbankarena in a nutshell. And nothing could be changed about that. "The city can only manage what is available to it."

From 7 p.m., the radio had informed that the parking facilities around the Commerzbankarena had been exhausted. When it became clear that the capacity would not be sufficient, the police even released the space on the Walddag for parking. An exception, as the head of office explains.

Stahnke does not accept allegations of mismanagement on the part of the city regarding the traffic situation. "Have you ever been to the Stade de Paris? There are no parking spaces at all, ”he says. It is the same in Kaiserslautern. He would not like it to be that way, but there is no way to change it.

The head of the road traffic office recommends visitors to start as early as possible and to do without the car if it is possible in any way.

Grönemeyer fans could not go to the concert because they could not find a parking space

First registration from Tuesday (10.09.2019), 10.15 a.m .: Frankfurt - Imagine that you have tickets for the Herbert Grönemeyer concert in the Commerzbankarena and cannot visit it because you cannot find a parking space. Some concertgoers turned around on Monday evening (09.09.2019) because they gave up after two hours of searching for a parking space.

When the really big ones like Herbert Grönemeyer * or Helene Fischer come to the Commerzbankarena in Frankfurt, the Niederraden moan and the Frankfurt police prepare for a big fight day. Because, unlike Eintracht fans, the 50,000 visitors to these mega concerts usually come by car. Many travel from northern Hesse or northern Bavaria.

Herbert Grönemeyer in the Commerzbankarena: fans couldn't find a parking space

At Herbert Grönemeyer's concert, the police counted 9,000 cars on all surfaces, which are made available to visitors at concerts of this size around the Commerzbankarena. At 7.20 p.m. the parking facilities at the Commerzbankarena were exhausted. Those who are familiar with the districts around the Waldstadion can then switch to Niederrad. Good advice is expensive for people with little local knowledge.

Concertgoers from Central Hesse had to drive home disappointed

In the worst case, if you come too late, you have to go home again. Some visitors from central and northern Hesse waited a good two hours in a traffic jam on Mörfelder Landstraße. At 8.30 p.m., Herbert Grönemeyer had been on the stage for half an hour, and some decided to go home. With ticket costs from 50 euros upwards, this is not only a financial annoyance.

Commerzbank-Arena: "The capacity limit has been reached"

A spokesman for the police said the capacity limit had been reached with 9,000 parking spaces. "More is not possible" - in the truest sense of the word, because the 9,000 parking spaces also include all the alternative areas in the Isenburger Schneise , the Otto-Fleck-Schneise and the side parking on Mörfelder Landstraße as well as the forest parking lot . By the way, the latter was already occupied at 6.30 p.m.

Last year, Helene Fischer fans even parked their vehicles on the A3 to get to the concert in time, as reported by fnp.de *. At that time, coaches also stopped on the highway, according to police, to let fans get out. The people then made a pilgrimage on foot from the motorway to the Waldstadion. Not a safe situation. That was not the case with Herbert Grönemeyer, the fans were disappointed and made their way back home. Parking problems always occur at Frankfurt Airport. Many drivers are looking for a dangerous alternative.

Meanwhile, a dispute in Schwanheim in Frankfurt threatens to escalate. Holidaymakers steal the parking spaces from local residents and then use public transport to go to the airport. *

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* fnp.de and fr.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.