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Long Beach to tighten beach access with barcoded passes, wristbands and consolidated booths
Summary
City Manager Dan Creighton told the council the city will consolidate ticket booths, add barcodes and issue single‑day wristbands to improve enforcement and track use across 38 beach access points.
Long Beach City Manager Dan Creighton on Tuesday outlined a package of operational changes the city will implement this summer to improve enforcement and data collection at the beach.
Creighton said the city will reconfigure many access points so visitors funnel through a single collection point, move some staffed booths to an upper‑level location, put barcodes on physical passes and issue single‑day wristbands for daily pass holders. "The booth will be moved from where the yellow is over to where the blue is," Creighton said while describing plans to create a "tighter funnel" for beach access. He added the wristbands will be coded to a single day so they cannot be reused the next day.
The changes are intended to address three recurring problems Creighton cited: ticket collectors being bypassed at multiple entrances, aggressive…
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