click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe food is amazing. It\u2019s very authentic, the family is great,\u201d Christina H. from Fresno said.<\/p>\n
Elsa Farfan says she and her family came specifically for the food.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love Greek food, so we\u2019re here for the food,\u201d Farfan said.<\/p>\n
With large crowds come long lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think a lot of us have seen the lines that long on a Friday night in a long time,\u201d Jessica Morgan, the Spokesperson for the festival said.<\/p>\n
And the crowds are also filling parking spaces throughout the area.<\/p>\n
Street parking around the festival was packed Friday night. The situation is more challenging this year because one of the festival\u2019s main parking lots at Radio Park is closed for renovations.<\/p>\n
Festival organizers say they knew about the closure months in advance and spent the summer working on alternative plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve known about this for a few months in advance, so we\u2019ve been working really hard over the summer to make our best plans to be able to not have that impact as much as possible at the festival,\u201d an organizer said.<\/p>\n
One of those solutions is a free shuttle service.<\/p>\n
Organizers have shuttles running from two different locations throughout the day, giving festival-goers another way to get to the event without having to find a parking spot near the festival.<\/p>\n
For one longtime festival-goer, it was the first time using the shuttle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was really convenient,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
When asked how long the ride took, the festival-goer said it was quick.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuper convenient. I recommend it highly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shuttles are free and run every 15 minutes from the two designated locations.<\/p>\n
Others decided to avoid the parking situation altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always brought our car, but today we decided to Uber,\u201d Farfan said. \u201cParking, it gets pretty crazy, so we decided to Uber today.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says seeing the crowded streets and neighborhoods reinforced that decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw the whole parking was way out there, parking the streets, parking the neighborhoods, so I\u2019m glad we did that, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Churches in the area have also opened their parking lots to help ease the parking crunch.<\/p>\n
Organizers say the effort is about more than just finding a place to park.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, you know, Greeks are all about community and coming together and supporting each other,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n
Festival-goers say that community atmosphere is part of what keeps them coming back.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great place, great atmosphere,\u201d one festival-goer said.<\/p>\n
With the festival\u2019s final day coming up tomorrow, organizers are encouraging people to plan ahead, consider carpooling or use the free shuttle service.<\/p>\n
Parking information and shuttle locations will be available on our website so festival-goers can make the most of the final day of Greek Fest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 If you haven\u2019t heard the music or smelled the food from your backyard, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-469801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}