Obtain Competition might be below menace if there’s a repeat of this yr’s visitors points, the pinnacle of Leicestershire County Council has warned.
The pageant precipitated extreme congestion on the roads round Donington Park in Leicestershire as followers arrived on June 7 and eight. A few of them stated it took them as much as seven hours to get on the positioning.
Nick Rushton, the council chief, described the scenario as “an absolute catastrophe” with the worst queues he’d seen in Obtain’s historical past. Nonetheless, he remained optimistic that the scenario would enhance subsequent yr “with a little bit of controlling”.
“Donington are fairly good operators however they actually tousled massive time this time,” Rushton advised the BBC. “One thing’s acquired to vary for subsequent yr in any other case I’ll be urgent that the rattling factor is cancelled.”
This yr, Obtain happened over 4 days to rejoice its twentieth anniversary. Subsequent yr, nevertheless, it’s returning to its common three-day format.
Stories recommend the congestion additionally created points for motorists who weren’t travelling to the pageant. Rushton stated that he knew of 600 individuals who had missed their flights from East Midlands Airport, throughout the highway from Donington Park, as a result of visitors.
Stay Nation Leisure, the organisers of the pageant, agreed the visitors congestion was “unprecedented and never acceptable”. Per BBC, they’ve launched an investigation into what went unsuitable and the way comparable points might be prevented.
They’ve stated they believed the next attendance, an elevated variety of automobiles and points over journey routes to automobile parks had been the principle contributing elements to the delays. They hope a return to Obtain’s common format will assist the issue, with the campsite opening two days earlier than the bands begin to “unfold” the arrival of followers.
Rushton agreed that reverting to a three-day format “ought to be quite a bit higher subsequent yr.”
This yr’s Obtain Competition was headlined by Metallica, who carried out two distinctive units throughout the weekend, Deliver Me The Horizon and Slipknot.
Deliver Me The Horizon introduced a brand new album, ‘Submit Human: Nex Gen’, throughout their Friday evening headline debut, whereas Slipknot headlined the pageant for the fifth time, equalling Iron Maiden‘s document for the best variety of Obtain headline appearances.
