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Ha, I know what happened now. I turned in there, somehow got on Busch Road, and then Jefferson's Hundred.
 
This is probably the wrong thread but I searched and couldnt find anything on the parking toll booths, but there are new red and green traffic signal lights installed at the toll plaza. So far they are not operating but will make it easier to see which gate is openwhen they do.

Here's a picture of one of the lights. Still not working.
 

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can you go in the park if u dont have a car?
Yes there us a bus stop that services the park by the water tower. Also shuttles from many hotels and I think CW still runs one from the visitor center. Also there is a no charge drop off line for cars to drop off and leave so Uber or other forms of Taxi are options.
 
And here's the really good news: the 2013 soundtrack has returned to the entry area! Yup, the Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin crap that used to make me cringe whenever I entered is no more. It's back to the subtly adventurous instrumental music from the redone 2013 entrance soundtrack, which is absolutely gorgeous and does a far better job of setting the tone for the park in my opinion.

Here were a few of my favorites from yesterday:

"Love and Be Loved" from The Odd Life of Timothy Green by Geoff Zanelli


"We Bought A Zoo" by Jonsi


"The Egg Travels" from Dinosaur by James Newton Howard [starts at 0:43 at BGW]

I haven't heard that last one at BGW before, but it's such a powerful and beautiful piece and it fits perfectly with BGW. For the two minutes that song played, I was in absolute heaven.
Coming from 2019, I distinctly remember hearing the Zoo one as we left the park at night.
 
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Yup. It seems like they’ve mixed the 2013 soundtrack and the Gasparich-era Sinatra soundtrack this year. I’ve heard both the lovely 2013 instrumental playlist and singers like Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion coming into the park this season.
 
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The inability for BGW to quickly change that is disheartening. Even though I'm willing to bet they expected a slow day, it's inexcusable to not be ready to change if needed.
There was more then enough security including the head of security standing around watching to open the second one.
 
The inability for BGW to quickly change that is disheartening. Even though I'm willing to bet they expected a slow day, it's inexcusable to not be ready to change if needed.
I sometimes question if the park really is testing their limits......

"Hey guys, watch to see if anyone leaves because of the line"

"No one is leaving? Great... tomorrow we'll have the admission employee also run the metal detector"
 
With the ticket booths closed for the last few years and the back up ticket booths (on the right just past the main booths) never used in the last 10 years that I have seen, I wonder if the park has a plan for this area. The pond and small waterfall on the left as you are walking in and the entrance area from the England are so soothing and peaceful. Coming in from the France lot and seeing the unused booths, gives this area a feel of abandonment and neglect. I hope the park does something nice here
 
With the ticket booths closed for the last few years and the back up ticket booths (on the right just past the main booths) never used in the last 10 years that I have seen, I wonder if the park has a plan for this area. The pond and small waterfall on the left as you are walking in and the entrance area from the England are so soothing and peaceful. Coming in from the France lot and seeing the unused booths, gives this area a feel of abandonment and neglect. I hope the park does something nice here
I am sure it will never happen as it would require more staffing but fencing it off and installing a security check point there would be a great use of the space.
 
They should move the self service machines/kiosks at the entrance into the old ticket booths. Get them out of the elements, not have the cluster of a bottleneck that their current location causes, and repurposing existing infrastructure.
 
I am sure it will never happen as it would require more staffing but fencing it off and installing a security check point there would be a great use of the space.
This is the right answer because the area can be wider and get the flow through faster, but that also means you would need a 3-4 wide booth off England’s lot.
 
They should move the self service machines/kiosks at the entrance into the old ticket booths. Get them out of the elements, not have the cluster of a bottleneck that their current location causes, and repurposing existing infrastructure.

Putting the kiosks in the existing booths would make it a much bigger PITA for customers to figure out which machines are available or even operating. You'd have to walk down the line of booths and look into each open-air "hallway" to see which booth's machine you could use.

And if you installed the kiosks on the fronts of the booths instead (for better guest and maintenance visibility), then neither they nor you would be protected from the elements in the first place.

Perhaps the park could reconstruct that entire line of booths to be one long covered open-air space with a back wall, and the machines could be installed there with their backs against that wall. Have a couple of archways in the wall for easy exits toward the downhill walkway.

How many kiosks are currently installed in that awful left-side space? Ten, twelve? You could get many more kiosks into a reconfigured covered structure where the ticket booths currently stand, and eat up the queues much faster. Liberate the choke point that currently occurs between ticket booths and restrooms by eliminating that left-side queue entirely.
 
Putting the kiosks in the existing booths would make it a much bigger PITA for customers to figure out which machines are available or even operating. You'd have to walk down the line of booths and look into each open-air "hallway" to see which booth's machine you could use.

And if you installed the kiosks on the fronts of the booths instead (for better guest and maintenance visibility), then neither they nor you would be protected from the elements in the first place.

Perhaps the park could reconstruct that entire line of booths to be one long covered open-air space with a back wall, and the machines could be installed there with their backs against that wall. Have a couple of archways in the wall for easy exits toward the downhill walkway.

How many kiosks are currently installed in that awful left-side space? Ten, twelve? You could get many more kiosks into a reconfigured covered structure where the ticket booths currently stand, and eat up the queues much faster. Liberate the choke point that currently occurs between ticket booths and restrooms by eliminating that left-side queue entirely.
That's a solid point about not knowing what's open or not with the current booth setup. I think we all agree that something needs to happen with that area, I was just looking at the current power and network infrastructure that is already there.
 
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