Isle of Wight

I like other colours too....

Heavy rain has caused real problems on the Isle of Wight. An island with a population of around 140 000 is seeing the arrival of over 50 000 festival goers, causing gridlock.

Camp sites have been flooded, car parks closed and there are real problems.

As always in an event like this, Twitter provides a stream of stories... Put in a search for #IoW or similar and you'll find people stuck in their cars, plus pictures of seas of mud, tractors towing cars, queues of cars etc. Plenty of real stories and problems to be collated.

This allows the exploration of traffic flows and networks (I remember an old exercise in my 'O' level about networks on Anglesey... perhaps I'll hunt it out ready for the return of 'O' level), impact of weather, and mapping using Google Maps.

e.g. this report


TRAVEL - ROADS: Isle of Wight Festival - 4 mile queues A3054 at Newport

Delays are expected due to Isle of Wight Festival traffic on A3054 Fairlee Road at Victoria Road. There is congestion to B3331 Fishbourne Lane.
Heavy rainfall has made the camp site and car parks muddy. Overnight vehicles have had to be towed onto site using tractors. Police are asking drivers to prepare their vehicles for towing. Traffic is queueing for around 4 miles.


Plenty on ITV Meridian news.

Also the official festival TWITTER STREAM


The impact of the weather on human activity case study ? - done....

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