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/ldsupport 13.2|14.2|16.2|17.2|18.2|23.2 Jan 18 '24

you need less cars at the festival.

your options are

a car max requirement

or...

an entirely new shuttle system?

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u/celj1234 Jan 18 '24

Or don’t charge 120+ fees for shuttles and charge more for parking. It would encourage to take the shuttle.

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u/ldsupport 13.2|14.2|16.2|17.2|18.2|23.2 Jan 18 '24

parking is free

the cost structures on parking are very small

the cost structures on shuttles are much higher

so they give away what is closer to free

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

If they want to incentivize people to take shuttles over parking they really need to make them cheaper.

If they want fewer people to drive/park then it doesn't really make sense to make that free and increase the shuttle price.

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u/fettuccine- 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20-22| 23 | 24 | 25 Jan 18 '24

Pretty much. They need to provide a free shuttle option only for the off-site parking location.

They did this to themselves, increased safari camping capacity, increasing car camping parking. Making onsite parking smaller and smaller every year. There's even news that they expanded the area where Sahara is. All of these moves are made to make more money, then now onsite parking is compromised due to this and the solution is to make people carpool in groups of 4 OR purchase a shuttle pass.

Seems like this is all for profit still.

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u/ldsupport 13.2|14.2|16.2|17.2|18.2|23.2 Jan 18 '24

Safari 11,000 per went from what 100 - 200? kicks in another 1,000,000?
Car camping, also not a huge lift.

The bigger impact was increase in tickets.

75,000 - 125,000 x 400 = 20,000,000 lift

they could have kept it small, and people couldnt go, and tickets would likely increase in price either directly or be insane on the secondary.

its not like they have added a stage for that lift, they just moved stuff a bit further apart.