Opening day of the great New York State Fair is Aug. 27, so today State Fair Hound kicks off daily posts leading up to that glorious day. We’ll begin with a topic that’s been in the news quite a bit.
The first concert at the not-yet-completed amphitheater is scheduled to take place during this year’s State Fair. Officials still have to figure out how to work around the problems handed them by the short-sighted politicians who chose the lakefront site. Just how do you get 17,000 concert patrons from the new shell to the Fairgrounds and vice versa? It’s a daunting and very likely an impossible walk, so buses will be the first line of service.
Ideally, a monorail that can zip passengers around from parking lots to venues is in the future, but the expense is insurmountable, at least currently. State Fair Hound is looking into sponsoring teleporting, as in sci-fi movies and TV shows, but so far we haven’t found a way for that either.
One bit of good news revealed to us recently by Mr. Waffner is that a ticket to a show at the new stadium is good for Fair admission any day, not just the day of the show. So if you go to a concert on one day, you can use your free ticket to attend the Fair on another day. That part of the plan makes sense.
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