Traffic Control

Does anyone else get frustrated with the traffic control workers at CP? To me, they cause more confusion & congestion than they resolve. It seems to me they lack common sense when it comes to traffic flow.
One worker was waving his arms like an injured bird. I had no clue if I was supposed to stop or proceed. I stopped. Please share your experience with poor traffic control.
I am new to this forum, don’t know where else to post my frustration.

Never had an issue.

Paging staaber...I think you'll be all over this.

On a serious note, there's no possible way they cause more confusion and congestion than if they weren't there. Think of the absolute s*** show that would ensue if they weren't there. But then again, I only go like once a year, and stay on Point for days at a time so it's not like I come and go 30 times a year.

I don’t always like the decisions they make but never have a problem understanding what they want me to do.

JoquannaJ, were you at the park last night? We may have witnessed the same injured bird. :D

Last year when I got one of those post-visit surveys they sometimes email to passholders, I mentioned that on two separate occasions we almost got hit because the traffic person was swinging one arm indistinctly without using a hand to stop others. So far this year it's been a lot better, and even last night's injured bird wasn't a big deal since there wasn't much traffic.

I see their need in certain situations but I hate when they guide parking in the morning. Last time they tried to tell me where to park the guy looked all irritated that I didn't park in the exact spot he was guiding me to. As he was guiding me there the door of the previously parked car flew open and a bunch of little kids hopped out into the spot he was guiding me to so I parked one space away. He was not happy. Apparently I was supposed to run them over.

I was so glad they weren't guiding us when we got to the park Saturday. We had a large group with five vehicles and a specific way we wanted to park them to make lunch time easier with the little kids and I'm sure traffic control would not have been very understanding.

^That's on the parents to make sure doors aren't opened until "the car next to you comes to a complete and final stop :-)" Of course, sometimes it's the parents that whip their doors open...

My favorite thing they do, "Ooh one car wants to turn, let me stop this long line of traffic one car!" It's not just CP that has that issue, I've seen po-lice directing traffic do that too.

The main problem for traffic control in my opinion is the lack of exit for the parking lot. There are a ton of toll booths and options to get in, but leaving is such a bottle neck! There should be more patrol on the causeway/Cedar Point Drive (not CP Rd.) since that seems to be the main hold up with accidents and traffic lights changing red when there aren’t other cars coming from other directions.

The only problem I’ve ever had with traffic control employees at Cedar Point is when I used to work there, I would get off work, jump in the long line to get out of the parking lot, and finally when I reached the end of the parking lot, I would be directed by the employee to go down Cedar Point Rd. I am absolutely NOT driving down CP Rd. and going ALL the way around just to get to Commons. A lot of times the would be snippy at me when I told them that I was just trying to get back to Commons and the traffic didn’t look bad on the causeway from what I could see.

Followed a couple up the Chaussee the other day. Stopped at the booth for five minutes so they could find their pass. They drove right by the traffic guy directing traffic from the causeway who was telling them to stop, forcing the turning cars to stop. They ran the stop sign to turn right onto Perimeter Rd and turned left into the marina without stopping first. What gets me is the people that stop when they are being instructed to go. I have seen people do u-turns in front of Peir 53 or across all lanes of traffic at the toll booths.

What's even more frightening is that those people may be driving a boat.

Pete, from what I see from my dock, you are absolutely spot on. They are driving boats.

I worked traffic control at Epcot back in the day. The outrageous and downright dangerous stuff people would do to try and outsmart us to park a few hundred feet closer was scary

Pete & Steve, does a person "drive" a boat? It just doesn't sound right to me, I always thought captain, pilot, skipper or something. Speaking of Skipper, those people mentioned above probably ended up like Gilligan & the castaways.

Cartwright said:
I worked traffic control at Epcot back in the day. The outrageous and downright dangerous stuff people would do to try and outsmart us to park a few hundred feet closer was scary

Are you kidding? A few hundred feet closer is HUGE after a long day in the Florida sun.

JoquannaJ said:
Does anyone else get frustrated with the traffic control workers at CP? To me, they cause more confusion & congestion than they resolve. It seems to me they lack common sense when it comes to traffic flow.
One worker was waving his arms like an injured bird. I had no clue if I was supposed to stop or proceed. I stopped. Please share your experience with poor traffic control.
I am new to this forum, don’t know where else to post my frustration.

I have seen this every day, coming and going, this year. The traffic workers are just kind of 'trembling' instead of swinging their arms in a coherent manner. It's like they all received some kind of crazy energy conservation training, or are just completely lazy and unsuited for their jobs. Don't make me GUESS what motion you are half-heartedly making!

In my experience, it's been a mixed bag the last couple years. They USED to be very serious about the motions used and it was rare to find anyone slacking. This year I've seen a mix of doing it right, doing it with dance moves mixed in, doing it while looking half asleep, etc.

I also seem to remember them having an army of people directing you right to where they wanted you to park, but it seems like they only allocate an extra person or two on Saturdays and the rest of the days they leave one or two people trying to guide you to where they want you to go and a lot of drivers ignore the directions. I guess it only matters if all the spaces are filled if the lot is totally full. Beyond that, I guess it's not a huge deal.

jimmyburke said:
Pete & Steve, does a person "drive" a boat? It just doesn't sound right to me, I always thought captain, pilot, skipper or something. Speaking of Skipper, those people mentioned above probably ended up like Gilligan & the castaways.

You can skipper, pilot, captain a boat, or drive a boat. It's all good. Even airline pilots talk about being airplane "drivers" on occasion.

Never had a problem or frustration... I usually feel bad for those workers. Summer hot days working on blacktop, not a fun job.

Went to KI this week and noticed the lack of traffic control and it was a nightmare!

Shamrockcb, it normally is that way at KI when my friend and I go.

Rugrats2001 said:

Are you kidding? A few hundred feet closer is HUGE after a long day in the Florida sun.

Yeah, but driving the wrong way down a one way exit only lane, driving through the metal poles and into the parking tram lane, and almost hitting parking staff (or in one instance, intentionally hitting parking staff) just to "park closer" was ridiculous. Working in theme park parking showed me some of the worst in humanity.

I stand by this opinion, that parking lot driving is the most dangerous of them all.