I really hope it works out and a lot of people leave today, or else I really feel for the people who show up for the weekend having done everything they were supposed to do, and face not getting in. (totally different from the gerlach campers who actually drove all the way out there with no ticket or plan)Entry into Burning Man has been tightened, officials said this morning, and they are asking those who have not yet arrived to wait until the weekend.
“The gates are not closed, but we have begun to manage the entrance tighter,” said Mark Turney, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca district. “Instead of free flow, it’s gone to managing the number of people entering based on the number of people leaving. We’re asking people to consider postponing coming in until the weekend when the wait time will be shorter than it is now.”
Officials are capping attendance at this year’s event in the Black Rock Desert at 68,000, Turney said, and as of 11:30 a.m. today, about 70 vehicles were waiting at the gates.
“Establishing the wait time is difficult, it constantly fluctuates,” he said. “But more people have started leaving this morning, so it’s moving better than it was last night.”
August 30th, 2013
http://blog.burningman.com/2013/08/news ... brc-entry/
Burning Man and the Bureau of Land Management have begun tighter management of the entrance gate to the Burning Man event. Measures are being taken to ensure camping is occurring in designated areas and to manage overall population of the event.
The new entrance controls will likely result in increased wait times at the Main Gate, participants who are not part of existing camps will be directed to camp on the outer fringes of Black Rock City between 3 o’clock and 5 o’clock. Additional streets have been constructed (the streets of M & N, from 7:00 to 10:00) to assist in these efforts.
The changes were agreed to by Burning Man and BLM to protect the health and safety of participants.
thank you for pasting it here.
