Coachella Wraps Up; Organizers Prepare Festival Grounds For Stagecoach

Today is the third day of the last weekend of Music and Arts Festival in Indio Coachella Valley. And it seemed that the first two days were held without major incidents, according to Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron.



There were 28 arrests Friday night, including eight customers caught in possession or under the influence of drugs and the rest arrested for public intoxication, alcohol or being a minor in possession of alcohol, continued Guitron.

The figures would be available Saturday arrest today, he said.

The line -up was the same as last weekend, with headliners including Pharrell Williams, Skrillex, Lorde and OutKast.

Line today includes: Arcade Fire, Beck, Motorhead and Chance rapper.

About 90,000 music fans flocked to the two weekends, total annual festival perennially packed.

The festival was marred by the death last week of 24 - year-old Truong pattern Kimchi, of Oakland, which collapsed at the Empire Polo Club Saturday and died on Thursday at the Desert Regional Medical Center. The Riverside County Coroner

Office said it could take up to six weeks for autopsy and testing to be completed.

After the pop music lovers go home, the gardens are transformed into a place of country-western of the three-day Stagecoach festival next weekend, Guitron said.

"They will change the whole area in a Western environment,” he said.

Motorists should prepare for road closures and traffic delays through tonight and again next weekend, according to the city of Indio.

They are closed :

- Avenida 49 between Hjorth and Monroe streets ;

- 50th Avenue between Madison and Jackson Street ;

- Hjorth between Avenues 49 and 50; and

- Madison between Avenues 49 and 52.

Expected delays in:

- To the south of Jefferson, Washington and Monroe streets, Interstate 10 and Avenue 52;

- Highway 111 in Jefferson and Monroe; and

- To the east I-10 exit Jefferson and Monroe.

Travellers from the north and south should use Washington, Jackson, Calhoun Street and Golf Center Parkway, and east and west travelers should use Fred Waring Drive, Miles Avenue and Avenues 48 and 52, according to the city.

Taxis queue in the southwest corner of Avenue 49 and Monroe, and parents can pick up and drop on Avenue 52 and Madison. About 30,000 people will be transported to and from the polo club throughout the Coachella Valley

facilitate traffic as city.
Pedestrians may not be used in Monroe between Avenues 49 and 52; Pedestrian access will be on Avenue 49 and Avenue 52 and Monroe and Madison. Golf carts are not permitted on any of those streets.

California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Radford said officers will “do aggressively enforce traffic laws to ensure the safety of all.”

He said officers work hard to maintain the flow of traffic, especially on Monday in light of traffic jams caused by people leaving the first weekend of the festival.

“Drivers have to be very careful and avoid distractions. Dangers of traffic and collisions that could be minor problems in most of the days in the Coachella Valley will become important issues," he said.

Information about the festival with other questions or problems,

the holidays will be a good memory after Stagecoach shows, Guitron said. “Ten days later, never know they were there.” Machines will be used to clean and groom the Empire Polo Club, said.