ATLANTA -- The last time I saw so many people slow-walking on bridges over an Atlanta highway, it was on “The Walking Dead.”
They spilled in from everywhere Friday, on concrete bridges slung over highways they had successfully traversed to get to SunTrust Park. They crowded in a wide line, on concrete suspensions, above a morass of mega-laned freeways. They found their way into the New Urbanist, a faux neighborhood adjacent to the park. Then they crowded into the brand-new stadium for the first regular-season game. There were 41,149 of them, and they mostly appeared to settle into their seats in time for the pregame ceremonies.