Tag: Event Traffic Management
Lounge on the Farm Festival asked to provide more safety information by council
Festival fans must wait another month before finding out if Lounge on the Farm will get its licence this year. Yet organisers say the festival will go ahead “regardless of the result.” Bosses of the three-day event were told at a city council licensing meeting on Monday they have a month to provide more safety [...]
event traffic management, do it yourself event organisers told.
ORGANISERS of some major Gwent events are being told they have to manage their own traffic problems, a senior police officer says. Officers have previously helped traffic manage events such as Hoggin’ The Bridge and the Monmouth Show. But Superintendent Nigel Russell told the Argus that the police had been taking on additional responsibilities that [...]
Police traffic reforms ‘a threat to events’
MAJOR public events in Monmouthshire could be left without any traffic police support, putting their very future in jeopardy it has been claimed. Gwent Police says it may no longer provide officers to direct traffic at major public events such as Hoggin’ the Bridge and Monmouthshire Show, even if organisers wish to pay the costs [...]
Mud brings festival traffic woe at Glastonbury
Heavy showers of rain overnight and into the Monday morning caused headaches for drivers leaving the Glastonbury Festival site in Pilton. Cars stuck in the mud caused big delays and one driver told the BBC it took four hours to leave the Somerset site. Traffic was heavy on Monday with major delays on the A37 [...]
New plans to avert Leeds Festival traffic chaos
Leeds Festival bosses are working on plans to avoid a repeat of the traffic chaos that marred the build-up to last summer’s event. Motorists were left trapped in road queues for up to SEVEN HOURS as thousands of campers headed to the three-day music extravaganza last August. The mayhem led residents in badly-hit areas such [...]
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