Reading Festival.. advice from locals / regulars

[JoelyJoe]

I'm taking my 14 y/o daughter to Reading Festival tomorrow as she's desperate to see Chappell Roan. We're planning to walk to Reading Station afterwards and my husband will pick us up from there (not getting the train as so unreliable!)
Is this a bad idea? Anyone local know if the traffic will be awful around the station.
Thanks in advance.

Station is about 20 mins walk from festival

Reading has a one way system for cars & not many places to park near the station

Yes the traffic will be awful

Yes, traffic awful around the station during festival weekend. You might want a plan B and meet at another point.

I'm also picking up DD and her friend tomorrow night but thinking about meeting on the Caversham side of the bridge as we need to head up towards Wallingford afterwards. Does anyone know how busy the roads around caversham get at kicking out time? 11.30/ midnight ish? I was thinking about meeting in the Waitrose car park but don't know how straight forward it will be!

Can I ask a question? DS is going on Sunday and wants to see Travis Scott (main stage about 9pm). How early would he need to get to the main stage to be in a not-awful position at 9pm? And he then has a coach home leaving at 12.15/30 - does the main stage usually run to time?

It's 20 mins walk from main gate to bridge then 15 mins to the station....
I'm working there all weekend.
Parking us impossible
You're better off picking up from further down near Reading Bridge.

Thanks to those who replied. For anyone interested for the rest of the weekend, we did pick up from Great Knolly's Street, which was good for access from the direction of the M4, and managed to avoid the worst of the traffic.

I've picked my kids up from there before, get him to either pick you up from waitrose carpark or tescos extra napier Road. There used to be a free boat taxi, also turn on find my friend or equivalent on your phones.
Have fun x