Pressure Project 1

RPAC Atrium

The location and time that I chose to schedule my Pressure Project, were less than optimal (the RPAC on Monday 09/07, the day on the labor day footmab game). There was little traffic and no congestion.

RPAC Atrium

Most of the congestion was in front of the one active turnstile, but they relieved it by opening the other.

The congestion near the tensabarriers in front of the food booth at the top was mainly from people looking at the menu, the food booth at the bottom had no barriers and less congestion.

The vast majority of the traffic came through the doors that did not have handicap access, and no one used the button to activate the doors.

A sadistic, and therefore interesting, social experiment would be to use the turnstiles for outgoing gym traffic instead of incoming, and change the incoming gym traffic to the left side and outgoing to the right.

I suspect this would create a great deal of frustration for both the patrons and the student employees, with outgoing traffic blocking the entrance/exit to argue with the attendant, people trying to come in the turnstiles on the right (as is typical for road traffic), and people trying to exit through the gates.