{"id":364270,"date":"2025-12-22T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:32:18","slug":"rdu-will-have-one-less-parking-lot-for-travelers-after-new-years-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364270\/","title":{"rendered":"RDU will have one less parking lot for travelers after New Year&#8217;s :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be one less parking lot for travelers at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, starting in early 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to RDU, the ParkRDU Economy 4 lot near Interstate 540 and U.S. Highway 70 will permanently close to airport guests on Jan. 2 and become an employee-only parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Park Economy 4 will not accept online bookings from travelers beyond Jan. 1. Guests will still have access to the other parking options: Economy 3, Express, Central and Premier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ParkRDU Economy 3 lot is being expanded to accommodate the changes from Economy 4 and add 7,000 new spaces, a customer amenity building, solar panels and EV chargers. New spaces are to open in phases throughout 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are driving to Park Economy 3 from north of the airport, you can save time and avoid road congestion by following I-540 to southbound Aviation Parkway, then turning left at Sheetz at the intersection of Aviation Parkway and National Guard Drive. The entrance to Park Economy 3 is on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers can reserve parking online at www.ParkRDU.com to get a spot in the parking garage or lot of their choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be one less parking lot for travelers at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, starting in early 2026.\u00a0 According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,50359,176202],"class_list":{"0":"post-364270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-parking","10":"tag-rdu-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}