A story from the Inland Press-Enterprise this morning reports on the changes to the Route 66 Rendezvous cruise regulations and how they’re getting “mixed reviews.”
But, looking closer at the complainers and the changes, there’s not much of a controversy at all with the San Bernardino classic-car festival.
There’s one fellow who grumbled about the Rendezvous providing assigned parking spaces for cruise participants. In previous cruises, he was able to park with 10 friends as a group. But this year, only one of his friends filed an application in time to get an assigned space next to him.
Next time, have your buddies turn in the paperwork on time, dude.
Then there’s the news that police will enforce a long-standing rule against drinking alcohol in public. So it wasn’t a rule change at all, but added enforcement to an existing one.
One fellow lamented the fact he couldn’t bring his own cheap beer, but popped a top on a can and started drinking anyway.
I know cops well enough that they’ll leave drinkers alone if they’re discreet, and this will probably be the case here. But if a drinker is blatant about flouting the rules and becomes obnoxious after downing a few too many, police will bring the hammer down.
Somehow, I think these rules changes won’t affect the Rendezvous’ attendance one iota. Count on another 500,000-plus for the weekend, depending on weather conditions.
For wall-to-wall coverage of the Rendezvous, go to the San Bernardino County Sun’s site here.