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[paulo999]

mikeb, on Feb 19 2010, 11:32 PM, said:

Wasn't meaning to imply anything other than that TBH !

No offence taken at all.

[possum]

This isn't meant to be a facetious remark, but is a genuine question... Has anyone thought of estimating the positive environmental effect of taking XX thousand cars off the road for 5 or 6 days and having them parked up in a field? Weighed against the journey there and back, I wonder what the real damage might be?

[grumpyhack]

possum, on Mar 21 2010, 09:00 PM, said:

This isn't meant to be a facetious remark, but is a genuine question... Has anyone thought of estimating the positive environmental effect of taking XX thousand cars off the road for 5 or 6 days and having them parked up in a field? Weighed against the journey there and back, I wonder what the real damage might be?

Very good point.  Calculating the environmental impact of anything as big as Glasto will always be an imprecise science because it's hard to know what the participants might have been doing otherwise.  If, for example, you look at the impact of a performer and band and crew flying in from the USA then it's a big one.  But had that person not been playing Glasto they would probably have been flying to perform somewhere else.

[20/20]

We hope to arrive at about 8 or 9am but it is very difficult to judge when you are travelling for 5 hours. 3 people plus gear means it will be tight enough with no space for sleeping. I suspect the queues at the pedestrian gates will be grimtastic early doors. The comment made earlier about an afternoon lull during the footy is bang on. Sadly we want to see the game so what can you do?

Having travelled by coach once before (in the 2007 refugee camp), I never want to repeat the experience.