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Introduction
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For cities and municipalities, both large and small, parades are a source of civic pride. But they are also a crowd management challenge. Planners not only have to worry about the logistics relating to parade marchers and vehicles (and sometimes floats), but also consider arrangements for those who come to watch the parade - how many will attend, where will they stand, and whether there will be any safety or security issues.
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Whether it's parades celebrating holidays such as Thanksgiving, Labor Day, St. Patrick's Day, or Veterans Day, parades welcoming home returning soldiers, or celebrations when a city's team has just won a championship, parades draw large crowds. Crowds generally line up, sometimes many people deep, along long parade routes, which necessitates the pre-planning of crowd control tools and activities.
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Parade organizers, or the responsible police authority, must ensure that crowds (or any individual attendee) can't break through and interrupt or disrupt the parade. This is not just a matter of choreographing a pleasing parade, but it is a major security and public safety issue.
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Barricades as Crowd Management Tools
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Parade sites have long used physical barricades to separate an audience from a parade route. Prior to the mass success of steel barriers, wooden sawhorses were perhaps the most common barricade used. But an attendee didn't need to be strong to push over a wooden sawhorse; pretty much everybody could do it. And sawhorses did not connect with each other. As a result, unruly (or simply excited) attendees sometimes pushed sawhorses over, or squeezed in between them, to encroach onto the parade route.
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As the years went by, more cities or parade organizers turned to interlocking steel barricades. With their heavier weight, individual barriers are much harder to push over, and when they are connected in a long line, it becomes exponentially more difficult to push them out of the way. And because they connect with each other, spectators cannot go between the barriers. Just the presence of steel barriers provides a psychological impediment to any thought that the parade route can be broached.
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Steel crowd control barricades prevent a parade route from being "squeezed" by surging spectators. They provide a clearly marked and controlled space for the audience, ensuring that parade participants have enough room to march or perform.
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Barricades used at parades most often feature the bridge base style. Barriers with bridge bases provide the best resistance to push by crowds and provide stability even in places where the street surface may be uneven.
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Success in New York City
