{"id":181092,"date":"2026-03-06T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:11:44","slug":"city-of-tampa-releases-weekend-traffic-advisory-due-to-citywide-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181092\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Tampa releases weekend traffic advisory due to citywide attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Downtown Tampa will be buzzing this weekend with multiple events drawing thousands of visitors. Officials said travelers should expect heavy traffic, limited street parking and potential road closures, and should look to plan ahead to avoid delays.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers are also encouraged to skip driving themselves and take advantage of the free TECO streetcar, DASH service, HART buses, rental scooters, or bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Weekend Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 6:<\/p>\n<p>Disney on Ice \u2014 Benchmark International Arena, 3 &amp; 7 p.m.Yankees Spring Training \u2014 Steinbrenner Field, 6:30 p.m.Straz Center show \u2014 7:30 p.m.Lightning City Gymnastics Gasparilla Classic \u2014 Tampa Convention Center, 7 a.m.\u201311 p.m.National Summit \u2014 Tampa Convention Center, 8 a.m.\u20137:30 p.m.WineFest 2026 \u2014 Tampa Theatre (Franklin St. closed), 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 7:<\/p>\n<p>Disney on Ice \u2014 Benchmark International Arena, 11 a.m., 3 &amp; 7 p.m.Tampa Fine Art Show \u2014 Cotanchobee Park, 10 a.m.She Is Football 5K \u2014 Raymond James Stadium, 7 a.m.Straz Center shows \u2014 11 a.m., 2 &amp; 7 p.m.Gymnastics Gasparilla Classic \u2014 Tampa Convention Center, 7 a.m.\u201311 p.m.National Summit \u2014 Tampa Convention Center, 8 a.m.\u20131 p.m.WineFest 2026 \u2014 Tampa Theatre (Franklin St. closed), 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 8:<\/p>\n<p>Disney on Ice \u2014 Benchmark International Arena, 11 a.m. &amp; 3 p.m.Straz Center shows \u2014 Noon, 2 &amp; 4 p.m.Gymnastics Gasparilla Classic \u2014 Tampa Convention Center, 7 a.m.\u201310 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ADAM.WALSER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s surprising Tampa Bay ties: Politicians, private flights and local victims<\/p>\n<p>I-Team Investigator Adam Walser and photojournalist Randy Wright have been digging through the Epstein archive, where typing &#8220;Tampa&#8221; returns 1,296 hits. What emerges is disturbing, bizarre and, occasionally, downright weird.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s surprising Tampa Bay ties: Politicians, private flights and local victims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Downtown Tampa will be buzzing this weekend with multiple events drawing thousands of visitors. Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,11284,276,135,5910,3670,137,136,44024,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-181092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-city-of-tampa","10":"tag-hillsborough-county","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay-28","13":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news","16":"tag-traffic-advisory","17":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}