Thousands of partygoers were left stranded on a Miami island after organisers didnt arrange enough buses after the event ended, leaving people to walk four miles along a highway to get back to the mainland.
170,000 people were expected to attend the annual Ultra Music Festival, but after day one of the three day festival had ended on Friday night, things didnt go to plan when it came to ferrying people off the island.
It got so bad at one point, that several people declared the weekend-long gig to be a Fyre Festival 2, a reference to the failed luxury music festival that was supposed to take place in the Bahamas in 2017.
@ultra almost feels like #FyreFestival #Ultra and its only day 1 pic.twitter.com/bLyOi4KJZ7
— Duke (@DukeAmazin) March 30, 2019
Although there was nothing wrong with the performers or the gig itself, the transport to and from the venue was slammed.
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Concertgoers had paid $400 for a ticket.
Ultra Festival staff had recommended festival-goers take the Metrorail and Metromover as the mode for transportation – but when it came to shuttle buses there was nothing but chaos.
Tens of thousands of concertgoers were left waiting hours for shuttles off Virginia Key island and had to walk four miles back to downtown Miami along the Rickenbacker Causeway to hail rides.
Frustrations reached boiling point as 50,000 people all tried to leave at once after the final performance of the night at 2am, according to the Miami Herald.
Queues were endless as the buses could only hold 55 people at a time.
The organizers had apparently arranged more than 200 buses for people to reach the downtown area, but that only took care of around 11,000 attendees – and patience was in short supply.
The three-day music event was being held on Virginia Key, a tiny island directly south of Miami Beach, attached to the shore by a long, two-lane bridge which many decided to walk along to reach their homes, hotels and hostels.
A Twitter user named Kailey wrote in an online statement: This was my first year attending the Ultra.
Getting there was easy as f*** and the festival itself wasnt bad but leaving there was f***ing TERRIBLE and we wont be attending the next days.
On Saturday afternoon organisers wrote: Last night, many of you experienced challenging transportation conditions leaving the festival.
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