The owner of North Byron Parklands, which hosts Splendour in the Grass, will pay local schools whose students were marooned in hours-long traffic jams created by the event.
The host of Splendour in the Grass will be forced to pay $100,000 to nearby schools after hours-long queues for the event clogged the M1 Pacific Motorway, marooning students returning home in the resulting traffic jams.
Organisers had moved some campers to nearby festival grounds but thousands of others were still allocated at the main site. “We want to do everything possible to ensure this does not happen again because we know ... that an event like this provides an economic stimulus of $87 million to the Byron Bay and Northern Rivers area,” she said.
“It was the wettest year on record and they didn’t think about what might happen if there was more rain ... there wasn’t even that much rain [that week]; they didn’t know the site well enough.”
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