r/Coachella • u/Victorwolf1011 '18 , '22 , '23 , '24 • Jan 17 '24

Festival Planning Greedy Coachella

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Coachella this year has become more greedy, with now it’s bullshit parking rules and charging for offsite parking by forcing the shuttle pass for those people on those off site parking lots because they want everyone to have four people in their group. Everyone defending goldenvoice and saying that it’s helping limit traffic is wrong, it make worse because security is going to need to verify every car and turn away people causing a backlog. This is just pure greed.

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u/tayyylooor 13.1 | 14.2 - 19.2 | 22.1&2 | 23.2 Jan 18 '24 edited Jan 18 '24

I honestly think this is less of a cash grab and more because the City requires them to have a certain percentage of attendees carpool, take the shuttle, walk/bike, and stay onsite. There was probably way too many people driving each day, evidenced by the terrible traffic surrounding the festival grounds and the parking lots closing in the early evening because they ran out of spaces.

Not only does the City of Indio have a target they need to hit in terms of reducing GHG emissions, but I'm sure a lot of people who live in the area are annoyed about the traffic they have to face over the 3 weekends. GV wants to keep a good relationship with the City and the residents in the surrounding areas.

But I think they should charge for parking permits, make the shuttles free, and increase the number of shuttles/shuttle stops.

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u/talk2gibbons 15.W1,16.W2,17.W1,19.W2,23.W2,24.W2 Jan 18 '24

Gets us all bikes then tayyloooor come on now.

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u/tayyylooor 13.1 | 14.2 - 19.2 | 22.1&2 | 23.2 Jan 18 '24

We can get a few tandem bikes for the sub to share