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| - The fair is kind of cool because it always takes me back to being a kid. Not specially this fair since I am from Ohio, but the generalized idea of "the fair". The Arizona State fair typically has at least a few descent concerts that I added each year, a lot of rides (which I do not ride), and a lot of games. But there are also a lot of challenges, and perhaps it is partially because of the age of the fair and the growth of the neighborhood around it. First, parking is challenging. Actually not so much the parking, because I usually have no problem parking on the lot for $10, but getting to the parking is the issue. The traffic is very congested there and it makes getting to the fair a negative experience. There are throngs of people crossing the street which delay the turning cars, and they in turn block the street so the cars diving toward the fair cannot proceed.
Another issue is ticketing. It is the 21st century and you would think there would have been some advances in ticketing. But no. Come on a Friday evening and be prepared to wait a long time to get a ticket because there are hundreds of people and only six ticket booths. How about installing some automated ticket booths like the movie theaters?
I like the concerts, but I am always confused. Do I pay for the concert AND the fair? Typically that is what I have been doing, but last week as I was hoping to go to a concert and the long ticket line caused me to not get through until 7:15 there were fair representatives telling people if they had their concert ticket they could just go in the back gate without buying fair admission. I also heard that there are free general admission seats to the concerts if you have a fair ticket. I attempted that this Friday and unfortunately did not get in because the general admission was already full.
Traffic issues are not limited to the street. Friday evening walking down one of the main paths in the fair everything came to a standstill. The path had food booths on both sides so people standing in line at those vendors extended into the path, and there were so many people coming in both directions that it turned into a mass area of people just standing and unable to move for more than five minutes. As we were able to slowly eventually shuffle it moved better once we passed the food booths.
I still like the thought of the fair, even though it is an expensive evening with the food and games. But the parking, the ticketing, and the number of people in an area that is too narrow makes it an experience I can only tolerate once or maybe twice per year. The fair cannot address the issues of the street traffic, but adding improved ticketing and spreading out the items inside the fairgrounds would help.
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