Two Days After

The Sentinel has a good read today on whether or not it was worth hosting the Warped Tour.

Our sense trying to read between the lines is that the general feeling is... probably not.

Traffic seems to be issue Number 1 (and probably 2 and 3). Business complained they couldn't get deliveries. There's talk of moving the event to the weekend. If local officials are sensitive to business complaints, they probably wouldn't want to go near the outcry if residents couldn't get around on a Saturday morning for the weekly Home Depot trip.

If the traffic issue ends up being the reason the concert and similar events don't come to the airport, then it's a big failure for the city and a significant -- perhaps unresolvable -- problem. As commenters noted, it would difficult (read: impossible?) to create a 190 extention to New Hampshire. The expanded Route 12 is nice, but can't handle a Warped Tour-sized crowd, and isn't really a direct way to the airport, anyway.

So, what does the city do? It either finds a creative solution, or gives up. As we said yesterday, a traffic engineer needs to look at this and see if there's an answer. We hate to give up, but that might be the unfortunate result of all this.