Friday, 1 June 2012

DO YOU THINK THE ARCADIA TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM WOULD WORK OVER ALL THE SITE ?






Being involved in Glastonbury for nearly 30 years . One of the biggest problems is crowd movement between the big main stages . IE bottle necks some of them can be very frighting . The huge never ending circle between . Pyramid , Dance, Other Stage , Jazz and round again . With The John Peel Stage becoming more popular going into the mix . The Park helps taking some of the strain out of the circle . But in that circle people travel one way round it , People travel the other way . Creating three very nasty bottle necks . Inevitably people panic in crushes add a bit of mud into the mix and a couple of prams scary stuff . Disasters go through peoples mind Hillsbough ,Heysel,The Pearl Jam gig . The crush in tunnel in Germany ,Not nice.


So as you wander round the chaos of Arcadia the Traffic lights flash red green amber above your head at strategic points . People stop dance laugh then off they go . The crowd travels round Arcadia 9 times out of 10 unhindered .


So would it work all round the site at the bottle necks . Well why not give it ago . As the capacity of the festival rises rightfully so . Plans to illuminate this problem must be in the pipe line surly this system has been tried and tested and must be be a front runner . What do you think ?

So 30 years at Glastonbury I hear you say how do you beat the bottle necks? Well I do beat them, But if I tell you then it will close the door . No it is not the back stage area routes thats cheating . Sod its Glastonbury lets share .

AT GLASTONBURY YOU ALWAYS GO UP THEN COME DOWN , THEN BACK UP AND BACK DOWN AGAIN . Easy no panic  

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