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No Smoking at ACL Fest This Year

KUT 90.5 | By Nathan Bernier
Published September 12, 2011 at 2:11 PM CDT
Watch out for cigarettes in those crowds. City officials are banning smoking during ACL fest this year.
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Watch out for cigarettes in those crowds. City officials are banning smoking during ACL fest this year.

festival goers who like to enjoy live music with some drinks and cigarettes will have to this weekend. Smoking is banned in all city parks because of the drought, and that includes Zilker Park during Austin City Limits.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a high propensity for fire if there鈥檚 any kind of spark out there,鈥� (PARD) spokesman Victor Ovalle told KUT News. 鈥淚t鈥檚 critical that we continue this ban of smoking and the use of grills in our parks.鈥�

Ovalle says 鈥淣o Smoking鈥� banners will be put on the stages at ACL. There won't be PARD officers at ACL fest, but C3 promoters will hire security guards who may ask people to leave if they refuse to butt out.

ACL tickets are mostly sold out, but single-day tickets for Sunday are . And there are plenty of people hawking tickets .  The calls for partially cloudy skies and highs in the mid-90s this weekend.

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Nathan Bernier
Nathan Bernier is the transportation reporter at KUT. He covers the big projects that are reshaping how we get around Austin, like the I-35 overhaul, the airport's rapid growth and the multibillion-dollar transit expansion Project Connect. He also focuses on the daily changes that affect how we walk, bike and drive around the city. Got a tip? Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on X .
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