WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - Friday marked opening day at The Big E and if you remember last year, the fairgrounds dealt with some heavy congestion due to large crowds, but we’re told that, this year, they’ve made some changes.

Eastern States Exposition Gene Cassidy told us one thing they did was move around some of the more popular businesses to try and disperse some of the larger crowds across the fairgrounds. “I hesitate mentioning because I don’t want to play favorites but Macho Taco really took off. To their credit, they have a great product and we help them build their business but now, they’re been moved to a spot where they can handle more people getting by them and we have a new business incubating in their spot.”

Fair officials also made to some changes to ticket prices.

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