AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 South by Southwest\u2019s 40th year has officially begun, which means traffic and road closures across Austin.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re planning to attend, it\u2019s recommended to consider all other options, including walking or taking the free SXSW shuttle bus, before deciding to drive.<\/p>\n
The city of Austin’s Transportation and Public Works Department has provided a map<\/a> of expected road closures as part of their mobility guide for the conference. The interactive map shows road closures, MetroRail times and bicycle routes to plan your travel around Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n SXSW has provided a map to figure out where their free shuttle bus will run, which is a circulating route between most conference venues, with stops including the Zachary Scott Theatre, Alamo Lamar and The Paramount Theatre. This map containes a guide<\/a> to those routes and when to use them.<\/p>\n Attendees are also encouraged to use Austin\u2019s public transit, with bus passes available for $2.50 a day. \u00a0This map shows the routes and the frequency<\/a> of the buses arriving\u00a0<\/p>\n The official SXSW transportation guide<\/a> also recommends rideshare options like Lyft and Uber. CapMetro Bikeshare, a city-wide bike rental service<\/a>, along with rentable electric scooters like Lime and Bird are also recommended by the guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 South by Southwest\u2019s 40th year has officially begun, which means traffic and road closures across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,70377,2969,2970,272,26834,840],"class_list":["post-200460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-laurel-pinchback","tag-sxsw","tag-sxsw-2026","tag-traffic","tag-transit","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}