Music Festival News

Councilors in Leeds and the organisers of the Leeds festival are hatching out plans to ease traffic congestion.

Last yeah chaos was brought to the Cross Gate area of Leeds on the ring road as 1000’s of people travelled to the festival on the Friday. This caused a huge tailback, forcing everyone to a near-standstill, with the only movement being the slight inching forward of tyres as the traffic slowly moved forwards.

New plans are being made to try and change the entry point of the traffic to the festival so that the main ring roads in that area of Leeds are not used to gain access to the festival site.

One councillor described the situation in a rather amusing way if you picture what she said in your head!

“I was inundated with complaints. People were stuck on the roads for hours, people could not get out of Tesco, music was blaring out from the cars stuck in the jam, naked women were running up and down York Road as high as kites and some people had to get off a bus and walk to a funeral.”

All these problems before you get into the field car parks themselves where everyone gets their tyres stuck in mud ditches, causing even more delays further back.