I noticed a traffic cop on the street between the Marriott and Hyatt during the day. They were doing the same thing last year too. I'm not sure if that continued post-panels though.
I think a major factor at night is that you're allowed to carry drinks through the skywalk because it's "inside", whereas walking around outside with one is illegal.
What I think may be helpful would be to at least move the hotel skywalk badge checks away from the doors and back into a more open space. It would be a more casual check and harder for them to notice someone without one, but it looks like the badge-check method is working rather well at this point. Even only checking people when they come in from a non-hotel area should be sufficient. I'm not really worried about someone staying at one of the three main hotels gaining access to the other two in that fashion. I can't see that impacting much of anything unless one of the hotels has another block of non-con-goers who would care about this type of thing (in which case a check could be added just for that point).
Personally, for the number in attendance.. I didn't find the skywalks that bad. It was frustrating & a bit claustrophobic, sure.. but it moved about as well as it could have physically managed.
On that point, one thought that just occurred to me would be to open a large-ish room as a type of "quiet space" for use when the crowds do get to be too much for someone and they just need space to decompress.
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Date: 2012-09-05 02:35 pm (UTC)I think a major factor at night is that you're allowed to carry drinks through the skywalk because it's "inside", whereas walking around outside with one is illegal.
What I think may be helpful would be to at least move the hotel skywalk badge checks away from the doors and back into a more open space. It would be a more casual check and harder for them to notice someone without one, but it looks like the badge-check method is working rather well at this point. Even only checking people when they come in from a non-hotel area should be sufficient. I'm not really worried about someone staying at one of the three main hotels gaining access to the other two in that fashion. I can't see that impacting much of anything unless one of the hotels has another block of non-con-goers who would care about this type of thing (in which case a check could be added just for that point).
Personally, for the number in attendance.. I didn't find the skywalks that bad. It was frustrating & a bit claustrophobic, sure.. but it moved about as well as it could have physically managed.
On that point, one thought that just occurred to me would be to open a large-ish room as a type of "quiet space" for use when the crowds do get to be too much for someone and they just need space to decompress.