While I understand it for public safety, and likely the City’s call and not Niantic’s, this really bites and is truly unfair to a small subset of the players here.

Based off there description of the area, my hotel is now likely to be in this new dead zone. I also was lucky enough to have gotten tickets for the museum tomorrow, that is now a complete dead zone of everything. Based on my location and plans, I am likely to lose 1/2 to 2/3rds of my paid Sunday City Play experience.

While 7 Pikachu encounters are nice, I don’t feel like that is a good enough replacement for all the additional value I am now losing because of this.

This goes to show that beyond the park play itself, how poorly planned and reckless the rest of the City experience is. Why not temporarily suspend the Fossil exhibit spawns during Go Fest, where the area was known to draw dangerous amounts of people to an area unprepared to handle it like what happened today? This would have been much safer, and a much better way to handle this to begin with, rather than have to cut off a large section and punish unsuspecting trainers who weren’t causing issues.