{"id":251300,"date":"2026-04-29T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:28:51","slug":"traffic-advisory-may-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251300\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Advisory: May 1 &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic Advisory: May 1 &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>With Riverfest, a free two-day public event activating the full length of the Riverwalk and several parks, along with a Tampa Bay Lightning watch party at Water Works Park, expect heavy traffic and large crowds of pedestrians this weekend in Downtown Tampa, beginning Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"563\" data-start=\"440\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(32, 32, 32)\">The heaviest traffic along the river could extend four blocks or more from Curtis Hixon Park (see map below).<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"496\" data-start=\"448\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(32, 32, 32)\">Upcoming events include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 1<\/p>\n<p>Life Surge @ Tampa Convention Center &#8211; 8 AMRiverfest @ Curtis Hixon Park &#8211; 5 PMStraz Shows @ 6:30 PM, 7:30 PM, 8 PMLightning Watch Party @ Water Works Park &#8211; 7 PM<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 2<\/p>\n<p>Life Surge @ Tampa Convention Center &#8211; 8 AMStep Out Walk @ Perry Harvey Park &#8211; 8 AMStraz Shows @ 10 AM, 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 8 PMRiverfest @ Curtis Hixon Park &#8211; 11 AM<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1851\" data-start=\"1689\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(32, 32, 32)\">To make getting around easier, consider using alternative transportation options like the FREE TECO Line Streetcar, DASH service, Pirate Water Taxi, HART buses, Uber\/Lyft, rentable scooters, or walk \/ bike the beautiful Riverwalk!<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2014\" data-start=\"1853\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(32, 32, 32)\">Reminder: All City of Tampa downtown garages offer free, covered bike parking and Riverfest will also offer FREE bike valet located on Ashley Drive at Curtis Hixon Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic Advisory: May 1 &#8211; 2 With Riverfest, a free two-day public event activating the full length of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-251300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251300","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=251300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}