Second-year savings on Barclays Center operations: remote parking and shuttle buses axed (but what about cracking down on street parking violations?)
The original map for remote parking The Wall Street Journal, in an article Saturday about how Barclays Center profits lag, quoted Forest City executives as saying "high expenses also stemmed from over-staffing events and adding services like shuttle buses to nearby neighborhoods—services that are slated to be cut back or eliminated now that executives have a better sense of how to run the arena." We know they've talked about cutting back on staff -and, as I explain separately , they're not only reducing low-level employees, it also looks like the top guy is gone. But what about those shuttle buses? They were supposed to deliver arena-goers who chose cheaper remote parking, located in lots a mile away near Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn. But they were hardly used, and now they're gone.. What happened to remote parking? That's confirmed by a look at the Barclays Center parking module , as indicated in the graphic below....