Here’s my tale of woe – I am absolutely livid. 😡 😡 😡
Was absolutely bang on schedule – arrived at J3/M54 at about 5 to 9.
Finally got in to the airfield at – wait for it – 11.55. I queued for 3 hours.
The person responsible for traffic management needs a good, old fashioned, ar*e kicking.
What was the point of sending people from J3 up to J4, then back to J3 – then LEFT AWAY FROM THE AIRFIELD – to merge with other traffic along that road, turning LEFT under the M54 again, then merging with YET MORE TRAFFIC before turning left YET AGAIN on to a very long narrow track finally into the airfield.
I am a diabetic – I need VERY REGULAR access to TOILETS – being kept in a traffic jam unnecessarily for THREE HOURS is totally unacceptable.
It was absolutely disgraceful.
The Wing Command in charge, and responsible for planning the event should be immediately demoted to the rank of AC with the subsequent loss of salary that entails!
Whoever gave him advice on how the traffic should be managed should be imprisoned IMV. It was a shocking waste of time.
The display was sadly lacking in any real content either. The Typhoon display lasted less than 2 minutes and consisted of little more than a fly past with a couple of tight turns.
What did turn up, was – of course – otherwise excellent, it is simply that there was little of much interest. Of course, my view may be coloured by the fact that I missed the LMA display completely – being stuck in the queue – and was forced to spend another hour trying to get to the display line, once I had parked.
Car parking was parallel with the display line – so it took quite some time, if you were near the hangars (as I was) to fight your way across the many many ranks of orange fencing!
The number of children that I witnessed very nearly being run over because they were forced to cross the paths of cars containing some very irate and frustrated drivers beggars belief.
Clearly 2 years is not enough for some people to consider things like ease of access.
Cosford is well placed, and is close to a motorway – it should have been very easy to get traffic of the motorway quickly, but sadly the persons responsible failed spectacularly.
It won’t stop me going another time – BUT I will plan to arrive much earlier in future, and will plan my route to bypass the M54 completely. 😡 😡 😡
Someone mentioned statics – WOT STATICS???? I saw very very few.
Leaving was equally as bad, incidentally – decided to sit on the airfield until 7pm ish before even contemplating going.
If I hadn’t travelled all the way from Plymouth I would have turned round and gone home.
If anyone recognises me, I was the one kicking his car (even though it wasn’t it’s fault) in frustration!
Top cap it off – Radio Cosford 1602am were telling people an hour and a half behind me in the queue – obviously heading from J3 to J4 NOT TO WORRY YOU WILL GET IN – Whether anyone else was prepared to wait that long, I don’t know. But clearly no body was timing how long it was taking for vehicles to traverse the extra mileage.
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