Magnus Vannar at the street office of the Jokkmokk municipality explains:
“The Jokkmokk market consists of an incredible number of parameters and people that need to interact to make it a pleasant experience. My role as head of sanitation and supervisor at the street office is mostly focused on the physical measures that need to be taken for such a large event to work, in collaboration with several other community functions.
About 1 meter of snow needs to be cleared from an area larger than the Stockholm Globe arena.
The traffic environment that normally only needs to work for a small number of vehicles and the occasional kicksleigh now needs to be able to work for the flow of 1000s of vehicles of all sizes, even if there are several decimeters of snowfall during the market. The latter, however, is not a problem for the snowmobile taxi.
Water, toilets, cleaning and electricity for all visitors and vendors need to be adapted to work, even in 30 degrees below zero temperatures. We also arrange with cozy places, parking and signage, and our magical artist Nicklas designs snow sculptures that adorn and create a genuine pleasant feeling to visit our market.
To help me, I have about 15 fantastic employees who together can fix most things!”