There were plans originally to accommodate more entrances. Also, the fields were quite muddy, so people were getting stuck all over the place. Had it not rained, and we had put in another entrance or two, we would have been able to satisfy the parking needs. Granted there still would have been people turned away.

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we would have been able to satisfy the parking needs. Granted there still would have been people turned away.

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Funk, I think that post just gave away who you are.

Apparently nobody on this site has been to any event larger than a 2A high school girls softball game. Traffic sucks. Deal with it. Do you drive up at 2:20pm and make kickoff for a 2:30 game? No. Do you hop in your car right afterwards and make it back to Houston an hour and a half after the game is over? No.

Traffic sucks, and in my opinion, SB and the local authorities did a MUCH better job than the City of College Station and TS does for campus events. If they were running Bonfire, about half the people that made it in wouldn't have, and it would have take 2 hrs to get back to College Station afterwards.

Traffic sucks at large events, not just Bonfire, and nobody has been able to figure it out throughout the course of history. You play the cards you are dealt with to the best of your ability, and SB did that. Deal with it, and consider yourself priviledged that you are invited to be a part of it. Those people are spending countless hours trying to rebuild this tradition, and it has gotten all around better every year since I attended the Unity Project in '02.

Oh, and traffic sucks.

We left Houston at 3:15 and we able to park at Bonfire with plenty of time to spare. I can remember getting stuck in horrendous traffic jams driving up to Bonfire in the late 80's. The students did a great job of directing traffic and getting cars unstuck. It was pretty funny actually, watching them run over as a group and push another car along.

What we did wrong and didn't understand was that we could have hung out around the car and had a picnic dinner there. We has seen the "no cooler" on the website, but that was only into the bonfire area, not the parking area.

Overall, a great effort and we will be back next year.