Parade Attendance Roll Call

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Obviously organizers had no way of predicting that half the ****ing city would show up and thought for with that crowd, it went relatively smoothly. The big thing is how cordial literally everyone was down there. Freaking way to represent KC. I have no complaints on how anything went down. If people just expected to roll up into downtown at 1130, that's on them. I thought I was fine getting to the zoo at 930, and when it happens again next year I'm getting a room downtown and finding a spot at 7.

It's not even about predicting, there's just no way you're going to get that many people downtown on a weekday morning without some delays... the only thing might be starting the shuttles 3 hours earlier.

I grabbed a hotel room at 1am Monday morning... offered the other bed to a few people, but guess I either smell or people weren't thinking how difficult it would be to get in and out (or both, it could be both). One coworker said she was going to head there around 11, but this morning a few FB pics of the Metro North shuttles convinced her to leave around 9 or 9:30. I was able to get a few hours or work done this morning, wander around some and get a decent spot at Union Station at 10:30.... a woman next to me said they had been there since 8.