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Grand Prairie secures $150,000 to support transit surge, will monitor traffic in real time during FIFA
Summary
City staff briefed council on traffic and transit plans for FIFA, saying they will treat operations like incident response, monitor corridors and watch parties in real time, and that the North Central Texas Council of Governments provided $150,000 in supplemental funding available June 1–July 31 to support increased ridership.
A city operations official told council that the city has no current plan to close roads for FIFA activities but will manage traffic like an incident response and actively monitor watch parties and major corridors from mid‑June through mid‑July.
The official said staff will use remote signal timing adjustments and active traffic-management strategies where needed and reported that the North Central Texas Council of Governments has provided $150,000 in supplemental funding to support anticipated ridership increases; those funds will be available for use between June 1 and July 31. The official also noted that FIFA selected Hensley Field as the regional bus-depot location and that buses traveling west from the depot will be in transit without passengers.
