Cheste 2008, problems in the access to the circuit
Cheste 2008, problems in the access to the circuit

Video: Cheste 2008, problems in the access to the circuit

Video: Cheste 2008, problems in the access to the circuit
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This weekend the Valencian Community Grand Prix was held, a race that should serve as a finishing touch to a not very fruitful season for the Spanish riders, who have not achieved any title. There were many who went to Cheste to cheer on our people in this season finale. But there were also many who suffered from the problems of the organization of the race, which was completely overwhelmed with the accesses to the circuit.

The rains that fell the days before the race left the dirt parking lots that they planned to use for cars and motorcycles on Saturday and Sunday completely muddy. It is curious that precisely in Valencia, a region in which when it rains, it really does cause flooding, the planned car parks are made of dirt and not asphalt as in Jerez.

Faced with this problem, the organization decided to implement an emergency plan. Alternative parkings would be enabled in two industrial estates about 6-7 kilometers from the circuit. From there 137 shuttle buses would constantly drive fans from their vehicles to and from the circuit and vice versa.

On Saturday morning people left their hotels bound for the Ricardo Tormo circuit. On the A3 they soon found themselves with the retentions, but the Civil Guard was on the road telling all cars without a parking pass that they should park in the Loriguilla industrial park, located at exit 339 of said road about 6 kilometers from the circuit.

Once in the polygon, everything was very well organized and it was indicated where they should leave the cars. The buses were waiting at the back, and they were leaving as they were filling up. When people got on the bus, the first thing they did was ask the driver if the bus service was going to run all day, to which they answered yes, day and night. The same answer was given by the workers who coordinated the bus stops.

Cheste access
Cheste access

Perfect, people go to the circuit to get involved. So much work that some left the circuit at 7 in the afternoon with the consequent fatigue. They start walking toward the shuttle stops, and it was starting to seem strange that I didn't see a single one of the 137 buses that were supposed to take people to the car.

When they reached the shuttle stops, what was suspected is confirmed. The organization told the buses that their day was over, that tomorrow would be another day. Hundreds of people then found their vehicles parked seven kilometers from the circuit and with no real way to reach them. A road with no hard shoulders and no lights separated them from the car. There were some who were lucky and managed to get some private vehicles to bring them to the car. Others were not so lucky and had to walk the seven kilometers on that dark road.

By Sunday, people who had a parking pass with which they could access the asphalt parking closest to the circuit were not as lucky as the day before. Still leaving Valencia early, in order to get to the circuit with some time, he found a line of cars that was not moving forward, and little by little it was approaching 11 in the morning and at that time the start of the races.

Those who managed to reach the access roundabout to the circuit, found the Civil Guard completely overwhelmed, saying that no car or motorcycle could access the circuit, whether they had a pass or not. Indignation and anger on the part of all those who had paid for the expensive passes of the Vip Village and the accredited who had to access the circuit to work. People leaving their cars and motorcycles literally lying around any corner, disgraceful.

Cheste access
Cheste access

During the night before the Grand Prix, no one had controlled the access to the circuit's parking lots and these were full of cars without authorizations.

Faced with misinformation and lack of solutions, those who tried to access the circuit began to bypass the police control. It couldn't be that they were left out. In the end, some were lucky enough to be able to leave their car in a dirt parking lot of those that theoretically could not be used because they were full of mud. But many others stayed on the road without being able to see the races. A serious organizational problem, which should go to Jerez to see how the access and exit of a circuit is organized well.

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