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Murrayfield this evening (Tues 3rd) - avoid?

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  1. RJ
    Member

    http://www.scottishrugby.org/tournaments-events/one-direction-bt-murrayfield

    Doors open at 5pm according to the steward I spoke on my way to work to this morning.

    You have been warned!!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. steveo
    Member

    From readings of twitter it would suggest the queues are forming already.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. RJ
    Member

    They were forming just after 9am ...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Extra trams and ticketing services assistants with handheld machines will be drafted in, while tram frequency at city centre stops will be increased to every five minutes.

    Lessons learned from the 1000-volunteer Exercise Salvador held in March to test the stop will also be put into effect.

    "

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/one-direction-fans-will-be-test-for-trams-1-3431011

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    A tram takes about 200 people I think. It will take a lot of trams to move 60,000 screaming teenagers. They're going to have to bump up the every 12 minutes frequency to shift even a fraction of the attendees.

    Surrounding streets to be used as car parks?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  6. HankChief
    Member

    @kappers Surrounding streets to be used as car parks?

    Won't it be worse than that with hundreds/thousands of parents sitting with their engines idling while they wait for the concert to finish and then driving round slowly trying find them.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  7. Stickman
    Member

    Will the local residents be more upset by One Direction fans than when Oasis played there years ago?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  8. RJ
    Member

    Surrounding streets already had "no parking cones" deployed this morning ...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  9. ARobComp
    Member

    I was awoken at 6am by young ladies arriving to join the queue and loudly walking past my SOs house...

    There was a father dropping off a car load at 7:20 when we left for work. He was asking the steward where to deposit them. The roads have been cleared a-la match day and the road will be closed from 10-10 I think. Moved SO's car quite far around the corner.

    Seemingly there were people trying to set up camp in roseburn park so as to be at the front of the queue this morning.

    So in summary parents are using the queue as child care, and Directioners are mental.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  10. wingpig
    Member

    Lots of what I would assume to be members of the primary target demographic of The One Dimension were moving west along Shandwick Place just now. One colleague's daughter is apparently getting a half-day off school to go. I thought schools were supposed to be quite strict these days about pupils skiving for insufficiently acceptable reasons?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  11. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Bless the little One Direction fans. Nothing changes in fandom though. 'We' had Bros, and then Take That, back in the day when all this were fields, etc.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  12. wingpig
    Member

    Take That had an actual helpline set up when they split up, IIRC.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  13. chdot
    Admin

    "when all this were fields"

    Gracie or WC?

    Posted 11 years ago #
  14. MeepMeep
    Member

    Wingpig - you remember correctly. I think it was run by the Samaritans. I remember that they split up the week my Mum had submitted a birthday wish in the birthday notice pages of Smash Hits for me but it was pulled before publication to be replaced by pages for outpourings of grief from distraught Take That-ers.

    I've got to go to the SRU shop straight from work so will report back on childcare dumping ground status later. Will also report on the number of 11 years smoking suspicious-looking and -smelling cigarettes. ;o)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  15. Charlethepar
    Member

    I'll be keeping well clear. Some of the sound is bound to leak out.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  16. wee folding bike
    Member

    School was distinctly light on girls today.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  17. Stickman
    Member

    Avoid-avoid-avoid-avoid.

    Haymarket to Murrayfield just mental.

    People stepping off the pavement with no warning, cars dropping off weans in the middle of the road with doors being flung open, stupid u-turns and the bus lane full of parked coaches.

    I'm glad to be home and am bolting the doors and pulling up the drawbridge.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  18. SRD
    Moderator

    It's started. 7yo informing us what the songs are. It's going to be a long night.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  19. MeepMeep
    Member

    Agree with Stickman. No guarantee that other routes skirting Murrayfield were/are going to be any better as muppet pedestrianism and vehicular gridlock surrounds the stadium on all sides. At kicking out time expect stressed parents from trusting sprogs to attend a concert 'on their own', and more gridlock on Slateford Road, Glasgow Road and the WAR.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  20. MeepMeep
    Member

    SRD: but "that's what makes [it] beautiful"... ;o)

    Posted 11 years ago #
  21. Baldcyclist
    Member

    I thought Uni to Wester Coates was OK, given none of the cars could move, no one was trying to kill me.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  22. chdot
    Admin

    "

    But those coming from outside the city had worse to contend with after a cow wandered onto the M8 at Livingston

    "

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/one-direction-murrayfield-gig-causes-traffic-chaos-1-3431956

    Posted 11 years ago #
  23. Baldcyclist
    Member

    Yes, I found it pretty amazing that a cow could cause a traffic jam in the wrong direction!

    "
    The startled calf caused long tailbacks from Junction 3 Livingston through to Hermiston Gait.
    "

    Now surely a cow causing traffic congestion city bound, would cause a queue towards Bathgate, not Edinburgh?

    Mind you a headline of "Cow causes amusement for drivers stuck at back of One Direction queue" doesn't have the same ring to it...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  24. HankChief
    Member

  25. KarenJS
    Member

    Appears to be gridlock in gorgie now.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  26. KarenJS
    Member

    And no cows in sight...

    Posted 11 years ago #
  27. Stickman
    Member

    Yep, barely moving on St John's Road, and a helicopter overhead.

    The teachers are going to be dealing with some very tired girls tomorrow.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  28. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Marc McArdle (@marcmcardle1)
    03/06/2014 23:29
    Edinburgh number 25 bus has moved 200 yard in 50 minutes past the pub on Gorgie with 1D traffic. Mental.

    "

    Posted 11 years ago #
  29. chdot
    Admin

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    Art Exposure Gallery (@ArtExposureG1)
    03/06/2014 23:10
    edinburgh traffic management is abysmal , stuck in total gridlock on Corstorphine Road while 8 cops stand and look on

    "

    Posted 11 years ago #
  30. wee folding bike
    Member

    Lots of girls weren't in school today, they'll probably take tomorrow off too.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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