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Crowd control rentals in Ottawa

Every item on this page answers one of three questions: where does the line go, how does the entrance look, and what stops a crowd going where it should not. Work out which one you are solving and the rest of the order follows in about a minute.

Where a queue keeps dissolving and rebuilding itself — registration, a bar, a gate, a box office — the answer is belt stanchions. The 8 ft belt draws out of one post, clips into the next and winds back flat, so a lane can be redrawn while people are still standing in it. An entrance that is going to be photographed wants rope stanchions, usually over a carpet runner, because draped velvet reads as an occasion in a way a retractable belt simply never will. A crowd outdoors, on its feet and pressing forward wants neither: that is barrier, and at the front of a stage it is stage barricade.

Most events draw on two or three at once. An outdoor launch runs barrier round the perimeter with belt posts inside it; a gala runs a runner with ropes either side and belts at the desk. Ordered together they arrive as one delivery with one contact and one collection, which is the practical reason to put a whole event on a single quote instead of three.