so are those crates on the left side staying?
If they do then it seems like they just added another obstacle for traffic flow soon after they removed one on the opposite side.
Its kind of how they removed the planters against the Huanted Mansion wall only to replace them with benches and then put a couple of ugly un-themed vending pull carts right across from it. Last Saturday that area was so congested because the cart had a line of people buying stuff and no CM cared to consider telling the crowd of people to turn the line against the planter. The vending cart line just stretched into the walkway all the way up against the benches.
The same with the popcorn cart right next to the French Market place. They destroyed a planter to widen the pathway and then they put vending carts across from each other in the most narrow point. The situation got worse when they closed off the whole center walkway and viewing sections so they could create an extended queue for pirates. They forced people to walk between those two carts and right against a busy eatery.
Makes me wonder if these people in the various departments talk to each other. Outdoor vending seems to be the one department that has the most illogical places to put their un-themed pull carts. I know that its all about trapping guests to sell more but most of the time they are the ones creating the bottlenecks. At least train the CM's to have guests line up differently instead of right in front of the cart.
Maybe then all these planter removals in that area of the park will work.
here is the spot:
red was how the line was forming and growing
yellow is how they should have had a CM direct guests.
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so this is how they set things up on Saturday
They had all the yellow area closed for queue
The red was the pathway being used by guests for eatery entrance and to get thru from one side of New Orleans to the other
The blue squares were vending booths which also started to form a line and blocking the flow of guests
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