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Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ route explained
The ‘Midnights’ singer has mapped out a very specific string of tour locations and dates for her ‘Eras Tour’.
Taylor Swift’s long-awaited ‘Eras Tour’ is well underway, having kicked off March 17, and one fan, who goes by the Twitter handle @theonethatikeep, has posted a map of the singer’s tour stops and an analysis as per Swift’s location and travel choices.
The ‘Eras Tour’ marks the return to the spotlight for Swift, as the singer has taken more than four years away from touring to focus on herself and her art.
Why did Swift schedule her tour like that?
According to the fan, Swift’s choices are attributed to the logistics of stage set-up, while leaving room for unpredictable weather.
The Twitter user posted a comment on Swift’s tour locations and dates, acknowledging the skepticism some fans have had about its coherency, before breaking down the choices in a series of five separate posts.
“Why the order of the tour dates makes sense: At first glance, the stops on the Eras Tour appear to involve a lot of back and forth and look like a logistical nightmare,” @theonethatikeep posted. “The secret is...”
“There are two stages & teams! Let’s call them Stage A and Stage B,” she continued. “They both are being set up, moved, or taken down at any given time, allowing her to perform *every* weekend and give the crew enough time to safely move everything to the next destination.”
The detail is in the map
According to the fan’s analyses, if the tour were mapped any other way, it would be unproductive.
“*If* there were only one stage,” she declared, “this is what the path of the logistics team would look like for the first half of the tour (aghhhhh!). Lots of backtracking and not enough time to move everything while people get enough sleep to safely drive & operate heavy equipment!”
The fan even went so far as posting maps to illustrate the logistics of Swift’s tour choices.
“Here is what the maps look like if you have stage A (left) and stage B (right),” the fan wrote. “The routes make much more sense, and the teams have ~10 days between stops to move everything safely!”
With one more thing to consider – the weather.
“If you add in weather as a factor, you can also see that both teams are in the southern US for the first part of the tour in March/April and are not in the north until May, when the odds of inclement weather are much lower!!” she explained. “Hope that all makes more sense now!”