We’re off to an early start for the two busiest 2010 events on the Island. We usually don’t get too organised until the New Year, but this year we have been working with both event organistaions much earlier.

I’ve already blogged about Bestival, and behind the scenes we’ve been busy discussing new proposals and ideas for easing the pressure on travel from the mainland through to the site and back again. Bestival certainly ‘came of age’ in 2009 from a transport point of view, and for 2010 we need to really change up a gear to manage the transport on the same scale as IW Festival. With the numbers now travelling, ther is now a need for significant infrastructure which there hasn’t been before, and for much more pre planning.

Festival has been at that level for the last couple of years now, but we’ve been spending some time looking afresh at what we do to see if we can offer better transport solutions for those attanding the event. From a discussion with Festival we’ve grown our input into that event too, and for 2010 we will not only be the official bus operator, but also the official UK coach operator. With Festival tickets already on sale we’ve geared ourselves up early, and we are already advertising and selling coach travel to the event alongside our usual on Island shuttle buses on our website.

We’re also looking at a park and ride facility situated right by the side of the M25, with buses bringing people direct from there straight to the Festival campsite - no changes, no queueing, straight across to the event with the bus travelling on the boat. That one should follow shortly onto the website.

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