Coachella Organizers Addressed Hours-Lengthy Delay at Pageant

Coachella’s current return to the desert didn’t go precisely as deliberate.

In actual fact, it was a crowded jam. After attendees of the competition’s first weekend—which featured performers like Girl Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion and Charli XCX—voiced their frustration about ready in hours-long site visitors whereas making their strategy to the California venue, the occasion’s organizer Goldenvoice is offering solutions for the mishap.

“Yearly, we sometimes have a lull between one o’clock and 6 o’clock within the night the place it simply dies down,” the corporate’s senior vp of public security, George Cunningham, defined throughout a La Quinta Metropolis Council assembly on April 15. “We didn’t have that [this year.]”

The site visitors chaos began within the early hours of April 11, which can also be the weekend-long competition’s first day. On the time, many campers detailed their lengthy delay attempting to succeed in the Empire Polo Membership—the venue that hosts Coachella—on social media. Particularly, a TikTok person named Liss shared that she and her pals had been ready of their automobile for “almost 10 hours” after exhibiting up on the tenting floor at three a.m. within the hopes of beating the frenzy.