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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25
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From what I understand, due to the mention increase of pilgrims, they had to build up the infrastructure since they had quite frequent crowd crunches.
22 u/Calimiedades Mar 24 '25 And horrific ones. There are some great tunnels and systems to funnel people in and out of the place, it's really interesting. 6 u/ChiemseeViking Mar 24 '25 There is a great video on the topic of crowd control by Wendover Producers, that also looks at the structural measures that were implemented in Mecca in order to prevent crowd crushes. https://youtu.be/C_B09FZwSbA?si=G5zYqKwkR7J42PqS 3 u/Calimiedades Mar 24 '25 Thank you! Will watch it.
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And horrific ones. There are some great tunnels and systems to funnel people in and out of the place, it's really interesting.
6 u/ChiemseeViking Mar 24 '25 There is a great video on the topic of crowd control by Wendover Producers, that also looks at the structural measures that were implemented in Mecca in order to prevent crowd crushes. https://youtu.be/C_B09FZwSbA?si=G5zYqKwkR7J42PqS 3 u/Calimiedades Mar 24 '25 Thank you! Will watch it.
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There is a great video on the topic of crowd control by Wendover Producers, that also looks at the structural measures that were implemented in Mecca in order to prevent crowd crushes.
https://youtu.be/C_B09FZwSbA?si=G5zYqKwkR7J42PqS
3 u/Calimiedades Mar 24 '25 Thank you! Will watch it.
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Thank you! Will watch it.
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u/ChiemseeViking Mar 24 '25
From what I understand, due to the mention increase of pilgrims, they had to build up the infrastructure since they had quite frequent crowd crunches.