Arriving at Lockn'

Here is a new article on the Nelson County Times website regarding the plan for traffic control..

County preps for traffic, impact of Lockn’ event

It says northbound US 29 will have festival traffic in the right lane and through traffic in the left lane, which makes complete sense.  However, southbound US 29 traffic will have to go past the normal left turn to Oak Ridge Road, going a bit further south to do a U-turn and then get in the right lane of northbound US 29.  I wonder how that U-turn process will go, if you are having to wait for the through traffic in one lane and possibly having the other lane full of cars going to the festival.  If people can't get through the U-turn fairly quickly, it seems like traffic will get backed up on southbound US 29, in the left lane.

I would imagine they will have people at that spot to make sure the southbound cars keep moving.




Thanks for the link.  Now we have RV's making U-Turns!  looking at the map there are about 5 crossovers before the road they want you to make a U-Turn.  Are they going to monitor all of them?  Imagine the mess when you see RV's and campers making U-turns into traffic.

I guess that's at the heart of what I'm wondering, too.  Why would they not just turn people away - possibly even with a combo roadblock/turn-around point? 

exactly.. the first one to roll up is going to get turned away. it's def strength in numbers, but you can only argue so much with the law. I appreciate the thread tho.. I actually live 2 1/2 hors away in VA, and have been wondering what to plan. I definitely don't want trouble driving around staging the line at night.. but I don't want to sit in a 12 hour line in the morning either.. hmmm..  so most of you folks are going the night before en masse and just make it happen? i'm buying a VIP ticket, but I don't think that's gonna matter...a line is a line