Climebear, as a long-time attendee of the show it seemed to me the traffic chaos was due in large part to sending too much traffic South around the perimeter road when a lot of it could have gone North i.e. empty car park 3 both ways. I gather delays to the North weren't so bad. Toilet provision this year was markedly poor as well. Other than that the best I've been to for years, although a Harrier would have been good (and a Saab 340 on static - maybe next year
). I'm not sure about trying to get people to use public transport; there are those who never will e.g. me as 1) it's crap and 2) one of the great things is to stuff the car full of chairs, tables, cases of champers etc and break out a picnic in the car park. One of the reasons it was the best this year was that we parked against the fence near the runway threshold - the best view ever!