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The city has apparently learned nothing from earlier mistakes...I remember how incredibly bad I-40 was for the U2 show awhile back. If the stadium can handle a sold out football game at noon (where people are arriving much closer to gametime than a later game), it should be able to handle a concert that holds less people. With football, people have parking passes and go straight in to their parking spots. I wonder if the taking of money at the gates is a big part of the problem here? Perhaps they should sell parking passes or incorporate parking into the ticket prices.
It was the same BS with the Rolling Stones. They were making people stop and pay for parking on the way in. It's a hug bottleneck. Just add a parking charge to the tickets.
It took us about 1.5 hours to get in and about 15 mins to get out. Snarling traffic like that is unnecessary and puts lives at risk.
I'm never going to another Carter-Finley concert unless they clean up their act.
It was the same BS with the Rolling Stones. They were making people stop and pay for parking on the way in. It's a hug bottleneck. Just add a parking charge to the tickets.
It took us about 1.5 hours to get in and about 15 mins to get out. Snarling traffic like that is unnecessary and puts lives at risk.
I'm never going to another Carter-Finley concert unless they clean up their act.
How mad would you be if they had told you that the event was canceled, only to find out once you got home that that wasn't true?
How mad would you be if they had told you that the event was canceled, only to find out once you got home that that wasn't true?
Pretty mad, yea there is no excuse for that. I also heard about them parading people back and forth to PNC Arena and the practice barn. I don't know wtf they are thinking. What if it started hailing golf ball size hail with people stuck between the buildings with no cover?
I've read that her tour ha shad multiple issues at multiple stops but it does seem like the problems here were issues with the event staff and of course the weather. Why they can't figure out how to get traffic in there I will never know. It's definitely worse for a weekday night because people aren't arriving as gradually and spread out, but man, that was nuts reading about all those people stranded.
As far as the show being cancelled or not, I've learned not to trust the random event staff people for stuff like this. Things happen too fast, they don't all have radios and people will just make stuff up or pass on random stuff they've heard so it's just not reliable. We went to a show in Bristow Va a couple years ago and there were some storms moving through just before the show was supposed to start, but the rain moved out and even though There was some lighting, it was moving out. So, we waited until it was safe judging by how long it had been since lighting had been see and headed in. At least two different event staff people told us as we were walking to the show that it was cancelled. Some people around is turned back (the parking is a long way from the amphitheater) and we went anyway show started like 5 minutes late.
The city has apparently learned nothing from earlier mistakes...I remember how incredibly bad I-40 was for the U2 show awhile back. If the stadium can handle a sold out football game at noon (where people are arriving much closer to gametime than a later game), it should be able to handle a concert that holds less people. With football, people have parking passes and go straight in to their parking spots. I wonder if the taking of money at the gates is a big part of the problem here? Perhaps they should sell parking passes or incorporate parking into the ticket prices.
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Originally Posted by BullCity75
It was the same BS with the Rolling Stones. They were making people stop and pay for parking on the way in. It's a hug bottleneck. Just add a parking charge to the tickets.
I agree that parking should be handled at the same time as tickets, bought at the same time and printed out and put on your dash. Not that difficult if you ask me.
I think one of the other problems (in addition to the parking and weather) is that the doors opened at 5:30pm - right when traffic is just about the worst it's going to be in the afternoon. So you've got the regular peak time backups plus everyone trying to get to the concert. I know it's a balance between the being able to end before the noise ordinance kicks in and having a concert of a "good" length, but maybe opening the gates an hour later (at 6:30pm) but still having the concert start at 7:30 or even 8 would help ease things some.
I think one of the other problems (in addition to the parking and weather) is that the doors opened at 5:30pm - right when traffic is just about the worst it's going to be in the afternoon. So you've got the regular peak time backups plus everyone trying to get to the concert. I know it's a balance between the being able to end before the noise ordinance kicks in and having a concert of a "good" length, but maybe opening the gates an hour later (at 6:30pm) but still having the concert start at 7:30 or even 8 would help ease things some.
Surely the opposite is a better solution?? Isn't everybody arriving at once the whole problem?
I arrived at Rolling Stones around 5PM, thinking it might take a while to get in. Zero traffic, I got from Cary to parking space at CF in about 25 minutes.
They didn't though. They told us the event was suspended, but the evacuation was a sloppy mess. Everything took way too long.
I was told that it was over for the evening.
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