Glastonbury festival-goers are losing their minds over the 12-hour traffic queues

So much traffic.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- From the looks of social media, people travelling to Glastonbury on Wednesday morning didn't exactly have a pleasant time of it.

The festival, which gets into full swing on Friday, started admitting campers at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday -- but the queues began a long time before that.

Things were already looking bad at 6:30 a.m.

They weren't exaggerating about the queues, either.



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Frustrations were running high.

Luckily, people had social media as an outlet.








At the time of writing, still things aren't looking great.

And when they do finally arrive? Well, they've still go the mud to contend with...


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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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