{"id":406752,"date":"2026-07-21T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:13:13","slug":"sfmta-to-address-fourth-of-july-traffic-transit-chaos-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406752\/","title":{"rendered":"SFMTA to address Fourth of July traffic, transit chaos \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco transit agencies are reviewing transportation problems that followed the city&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks celebration.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 100,000 people traveled to the waterfront to watch fireworks over the Golden Gate Bridge. Many used public transit after city officials encouraged people to leave their cars at home.<\/p>\n<p>After the show, riders encountered long waits and crowded trains as they tried to get home. Some said their trips took two to three times longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s only so much you can do before you just kind of accept your fate,&#8221; BART rider Gloria Zhu said. &#8220;It was just push and shove into the trains, so we moved with the people and hoped to get on a train before the last one was out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Kris Sanchez has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco transit agencies are reviewing transportation problems that followed the city&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks celebration. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,3766],"class_list":["post-406752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}