Anybody hear when Gates open for the 2014 Festival

I think the whole Wed. thing had to do with Johnny Law & tax. As far as the tax I would gladly pay more to get in Wed. as would a lot of people. But heaven forbid someone would flash a nipple or smoke something bad without the ABC & their cameras rolling. Also being the first year they had no idea how it would go. From what I read they had a system set up & the police decided to do it the way they wanted to & no one knew what the hell was going on. I think they heard the people & are working hard to correct it. But being only the second year they will still have some problems.

I always find it curious as to why they know these things at CID but they still haven't posted them on the official website.

After giving this a lot of thought, reflecting on my experience, and rereading last year's "Arrival Thread" - lockn.proboards.com/thread/212/arrival-thread , I genuinely am starting to believe that everything will be fine this year.

Last year's problems were largely organizational. Whatever "plan" was in place was poorly thought out.

The police were largely concerned with getting people off of the highway, which created a huge problem for everyone waiting in line. There were many people who got in line before 9:00 am who watched literally hundreds of cars cut in front of them after arriving hours later. This was because the police took two courses of action to get traffic off the highway:

a) They directed cars into a line that directly bypassed the "original" lines, where many people sat idle in what is now known as "the field of broken dreams" (last year's Day Parking area(.

b) They also directed cars onto a back road, which also bypassed people who had been in line for hours.

This was pretty frustrating for a lot of people. Hundreds of cars sat idle hours after the gates opened. Moreover, anyone who took the time to walk around a bit could tell that there wasn't much of a plan in place.

The problem got even worse in the afternoon, as there were still hundreds of cars in line waiting to get into GA camping. Unfortunately, this line happened to be occupying the field that was supposed to be Day Parking, which was slated to open at 2:00 pm. Day Parkers began to arrive and ended up in the same line as GA camping (in fact, they were in line where they were supposed to be parked). When people were still in line at 4:00 pm (when the music was scheduled to start), they started telling GA campers they could leave their cars, so see the music, and return later to get their vehicle into the campgrounds.
The result was the "field of broken dreams," where you had people waiting in line to get into the campgrounds, people parking their cars for the day, and GA campers abandoning their vehicle to avoid missing the music on Thursday. I personally didn't bear witness to this, but it sounds like it got pretty chaotic. (Perhaps someone else can reflect on exactly what happened in the field that afternoon.)


Considering everything that happened, and the fact that it was basically the only blemish on what was otherwise an absolutely outstanding first year festival, you've got to figure they've put a lot more time, money, and thought into fixing this problem. As long as they have a plan in place to keep moving at a steady pace, where people are actually allowed inside in the order they arrived, things should be a lot better this year. They've obviously taken efforts towards this already (the purchase of the land) and it looks like Day Parking should have a completely different entrance than camping.

At the end of the day, you've got to keep your perspective on this. There are tens of thousands of people descending on a very small amount of space. It is going to take some time to get inside. If you're expecting to get in line and be pitching your tent 90 minutes later, your expectations might not be realistic. I have no problem waiting in line for a few hours as long as it seems to move regularly and I don't have to watch people cut in front of me.
As long as you're inside in time to catch all your favorite bands on Thursday, then the arrival was a success. I'm not sure there's another festival in the country that has a Thursday as bad-ass as Lockn'. If this were Bonnaroo you'd be seeing The Moody Smegmas and Androgynous Toe-Ring instead of Umphrey's McGee and the String Cheese Incident.

it's way too late and im way too drunk to read all that but im going to assume it was awesome. commenting so ill remember to come back and read it tomorrow