{"id":361034,"date":"2026-07-04T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361034\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:24:09","slug":"houston-world-cup-traffic-fans-urged-to-use-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361034\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston World Cup traffic: Fans urged to use public transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Houston&#8217;s final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/article\/houston-world-cup-july-4-22250095.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">World Cup<\/a> match on Saturday afternoon, the city\u00a0is urging soccer fans to take\u00a0the light rail to avoid traffic and street closures.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s office of emergency management posted on social media that areas near Texas Medical Center and Houston Stadium will see increased traffic due to two fan marches taking place between 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Supporters of Canada and Morocco will take to the streets several hours before the Round of 16 match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Impacted streets included Greenbriar Drive between Fannin Street Old Spanish Trail; and Fannin Street between Old Spanish Trail and the stadium, as well as between the northbound lanes from the 610 South Loop frontage road to the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Houston officals said commuters should ride the red line to Smith Lands Station to reach the Canada fan march, or to Fannin South for the Morocco march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of Houston&#8217;s final World Cup match on Saturday afternoon, the city\u00a0is urging soccer fans to take\u00a0the light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-361034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361034","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=361034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}