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Events in your hometown that make life temporarily more difficult
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Goldenroad
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We have an agricultural convention called Agribition, and another one that is the Western Canadian Farm Progress show. These two events bring in the most inept drivers you could possibly imagine....plus it makes going out to eat nearly impossible (not that I do that a lot anyway).
CraigerGamer
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Anytime there is a big boxing match in Las Vegas. You do not want to meander onto the strip on fight night. Its a complete nightmare.
I lived in Bristol, VA for a few years. It's crazy how many people come for the races. You almost had to do all your shopping the week before to you could actually buy stuff.
I grew up around Williamsport, PA. The Little League World Series was a pain in the ass each August.
paragonpro
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Giants games. Makes traveling a pain in the ass. You should hve seen the traffic bullshit when the superbowl was in the medowlands a few years ago
Jack Remington
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Obama and Biden come to West LA for fundraisers a lot. Wilshire Blvd and other major streets are closed down at various stretches whenever it happens. It sucks.
Back in the 90s when Al Gore was VP, heÂ’d often fly into Nashville on Air Force Two to see his folks that lived about 50 miles to the east. I lived out that way and it seemed like he always flew in during Friday rush hour and while not near as secure as the PotUS, it did cause some delays.
NealMcCauley
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Yeah I think Bristol becomes the 5th largest city in TN whenever the races come to town.
Oh, rock slides are really common on stretch of I-40 between Knoxville and Asheville. If the interstate is shut down prepare for a three hour detour.
Pittsburgh Marathon.
Marathons are probably hell on most cities, but it's a special kind of hell in Pittsburgh where hills and bridges mean that "alternative routes" are way out of your way and become unnavigable when everyone is shunted towards them anyway.
Big games and stuff aren't bad in this town for traffic because the venues are placed such that the only traffic is for people trying to get to the venues. The exception is University of Pittsburgh events, but that's more a problem to neighborhoods on the East End since Pitt straddles the major route from downtown to there.
Marathons are probably hell on most cities, but it's a special kind of hell in Pittsburgh where hills and bridges mean that "alternative routes" are way out of your way and become unnavigable when everyone is shunted towards them anyway.
Big games and stuff aren't bad in this town for traffic because the venues are placed such that the only traffic is for people trying to get to the venues. The exception is University of Pittsburgh events, but that's more a problem to neighborhoods on the East End since Pitt straddles the major route from downtown to there.
ss_lemonade
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About an hour or so away from my hometown in the Philippines but the Christian religion "Iglesia ni Cristo" normally holds events such as rallies, evangelical and medical missions that can shut down major roads. I'm glad I never had to drive through such events but depending on what's going on, I heard it can be as bad as members turning highways into parking lots.
ActStriker
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Azwethinkweiz
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I work in Wells Two and was like fuck it, I'm working from home today. Yesterday was bad enough.
Clockwork5
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The parade for the Royals absolutely made normal life impossible if you were anywhere near downtown Kansas City.
An additional 500,000 people flooded in from the suburbs and surrounding communities.
Machine
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Oh yeah, in addition to annual summer road construction living in a college town has some other inconveniences. The annual summer art fair clogs the town for several days each July and on football Saturdays, over 100,000 people attend the games which basically doubles the city's population.
Bonus picture of people walking to a game in Ann Arbor:
Bonus picture of people walking to a game in Ann Arbor:
I was gonna say. When they won I thought gun shots were going off. Luckily just fireworks
The parade for the Royals absolutely made normal life impossible if you were anywhere near downtown Kansas City.
An additional 500,000 people flooded in from the suburbs and surrounding communities.
. Not such a bad townI used to live downtown Gainesville, FL across the street from UF...
The days that there football games going on were horrid. You couldn't go anywhere and everyone was so loud.. Plus after the games you realized just how shitty people are, as the streets were covered in trash.
Thankfully, I live in a very small town now and only have to worry about one parade a year for the celebration of its founding.
The days that there football games going on were horrid. You couldn't go anywhere and everyone was so loud.. Plus after the games you realized just how shitty people are, as the streets were covered in trash.
Thankfully, I live in a very small town now and only have to worry about one parade a year for the celebration of its founding.
John Rabbit
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spring training gets a little more annoying every year in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area. it's not actively a nightmare, but the amount of tourists seems to go up every year.
everyday math
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The week of EAA. I love the airplane show, but so many people come and then there's planes flying around all the time so it's very loud.
Anytime in the Concord Mills area is a nightmare.
NekoFever
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Beach town that only has a single main road in or out. The moment it looks like a remotely nice weekend, particularly a long weekend like this one, my commute goes from ~20 minutes to 90+ and, living five minutes' walk from the beach, there's no parking for miles. We also have an air festival and a car festival that make it even worse.
NOLA_Gaffer
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While this isn't an "event", it's been a 6-month long nightmare for the locals in my area, so here goes.
The Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge is currently being refurbished/repaired, and it's a major pain in the ass for folks like me that have to use it on a daily basis.
They've working on alternating sides. For three months the northbound lanes were closed completely and all traffic was diverted to the southbound side of the bridge, completely fucking up offramps, onramps, and lanes. It's practically a nightmare, especially since it's down to one lane going southbound, meaning that if there's a wreck or breakdown, you're at a dead stop until it's cleared.
Also, as a New Orleans local that hates Mardi Gras, don't expect to be able to do anything recreation-wise for the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. Fuck.
The Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge is currently being refurbished/repaired, and it's a major pain in the ass for folks like me that have to use it on a daily basis.
They've working on alternating sides. For three months the northbound lanes were closed completely and all traffic was diverted to the southbound side of the bridge, completely fucking up offramps, onramps, and lanes. It's practically a nightmare, especially since it's down to one lane going southbound, meaning that if there's a wreck or breakdown, you're at a dead stop until it's cleared.
Also, as a New Orleans local that hates Mardi Gras, don't expect to be able to do anything recreation-wise for the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. Fuck.
My town sometimes hosts a massive motorbike gathering where mid-life crisisers (seriously, none of them look under 30) and their bikes come to make as much noise as possible whilst obeying as few parking laws as possible. Bear in mind my town is little more than a slightly large village and has a main road running through it which is vital. I live right in the middle of all this.
You can tell I have no love for the event.
You can tell I have no love for the event.
Pantaghana
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Ultra Europe is right under my window. For 5 days, traffic in my part of the city stops, there are multiple ambulances always on standby and the noise some people call music is too loud and goes too long into the night.
Last summer, there were a number of road closures due to marathons or some sort of event in Toronto, and it all seemed to be scheduled so close to each other that there would be closures every weekend.
DVP closes one weekend every spring for maintenance work. This may be a blessing in disguise for some people, actually.
DVP closes one weekend every spring for maintenance work. This may be a blessing in disguise for some people, actually.
This was what I was about to say. I live in a small rural town of about 6000 people, and our citywide garage sales bring in rednecks from a 100 mile radius. Neighborhood streets and cul de sacs clogged with lost rednecks diving $500 pickup trucks and pulling flatbed trailers looking to buy other people's trash for pocket change. The town turns into the zombie apocalypse, except instead of the undead lumbering in the streets, it's a bunch of senior citizens carrying broken lamps and second hand jorts.
I really, REALLY hate city wide garage sales.
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