Watch: This is how crowds cross the Boston Marathon course
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how race organizers let the crowds cross the Boston Marathon course without interrupting runners headed to the finish line, you’re in luck.
A video posted to YouTube Monday revealed the orderly process in Brookline included a couple of blue and yellow arrows, rope, and some very deliberate shepherding of crossing pedestrians by about a dozen people.
“We coordinate with a lot of different people to make something like that happen,” Boston Athletic Association TK Skenderian, communications director for the Boston Athletic Association, told Boston.com.
According to the Brookline Police Department, there were three spots in town where pedestrians could cross the race on Beacon Street.
Police posted ground-level video of all three spots, two of which employed the rope-and-arrows guiding maneuver.
Pedistrian crossing at Tappen St. https://t.co/EcuQ6v9KNf
— Brookline PD (@BrooklineMAPD) April 17, 2017
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