Perhaps a new traffic pattern will speed the pre-game parking flow. That's what the RBC Center and the Carolinia Hurricanes are hoping.
Starting with Saturday's 7pm game against the Bruins, there will be three ingress (entering) lanes around the RBC Center loop road to the West 5000 lot — from 6pm until the West lot fills.
The new pattern will be in effect for Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 Canes games, too. Then RBC will evaluate the change to see whether it improved the pre-game traffic flow, said Mike Alexander, RBC parking and traffic manager..
Here are general parking tips for RBC patrons.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter and editor since 1976, he took over the 
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I think it is great that the
Sun, 12/28/2008 - 06:02 — gretchfI think it is great that the Hurricanes are at least willing to try new things and seek input from the fans. I wish that NCSU would do this as well. Especially now that the conference season is about to begin and attendance/traffic will increase. It seems as though for basketball games there is a different pattern (coming and going) for each game. Trying to get into the parking lots from Edwards Mill for the ECU game was a mess.