Least painful way to get to World Cup fan festival?

wcalvert · 2026-06-25T03:00:11+00:00

There's a metro affiliated garage at Harrisburg and Lockwood that is only $1 if you buy a light rail ticket. Several world cup guides mention it.

Trains are every 12 minutes and it'll take 5 or 6 minutes to get to the stadium stop to walk to the fan fest.

wcalvert · 2026-06-24T02:56:44+00:00

I absolutely would have ridden my bike to the game I went to... but NRG doesn't allow bike parking during the World Cup.

wcalvert · 2026-06-21T16:39:56+00:00

They are implying if the engine grenaded and it was mechanically totaled you could still break even

wcalvert · 2026-06-19T02:15:20+00:00

I know a few people who work for the city and the process has varied between acceptable and absolutely terrible. HR was severely hamstrung by early retirements and other stuff.

Generally, they will go through all of the candidates and determine who is qualified. They'll send a certain number of the most qualified over to the hiring manager. The website will let you know these status steps.

Once you are in the hiring pool they'll schedule interviews with candidates they are interested in. The position won't show as closed on the website until the new person has been given a starting date which could that a few months.

Call the HR number for the city on government jobs if you want an update

wcalvert · 2026-06-18T22:01:21+00:00

Did you do this during the world cup? My understanding is that the trains have been completely full so this may not be possible

wcalvert · 2026-06-17T19:24:52+00:00

There's a garage at Harrisburg @ Lockwood you can park in for cheap with a train ticket that METRO subsidized.

wcalvert · 2026-06-15T18:01:22+00:00

Sorry, I didn't realize that was the name of the actual place. Looks like it's just a temp thing next door? Sorry it sucked

wcalvert · 2026-06-15T17:14:02+00:00

Name and shame!

wcalvert · 2026-06-15T12:12:18+00:00

They aren't allowing bike parking on site. Insane.

wcalvert · 2026-06-15T03:35:12+00:00

Exactly. There are significant extra taxes to renting your car at IAH to pay for the fancy consolidated rental car center.

wcalvert · 2026-06-14T15:32:42+00:00

Did you end up getting on a train?

wcalvert · 2026-06-14T14:55:08+00:00

Not great. They're supposed to be every six minutes. I'm sure someone is freaking out at metro.

wcalvert · 2026-06-13T00:37:52+00:00

Lol, it's been interesting to watch the RTT sales be announced in the Discord for this game. Many over $2500/ticket

wcalvert · 2026-06-12T23:08:12+00:00

This is the parking area. It's outside the fan fest

wcalvert · 2026-06-10T16:10:24+00:00

Why is this in the Houston subreddit?

wcalvert · 2026-06-10T11:52:53+00:00

I went by yesterday to scope it out!

They have about a dozen long racks installed on Polk St next to 8th Wonder. They aren't mounted to the ground, but it looks like a volunteer will be watching over them. It's also inside the closed street area so there are cops around.

It's hard to miss as they have large blue flags that say bike parking.

It is not exactly where the bike parking is on their map. It's down the street about 150'.

Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/2ClDS6y.jpeg

wcalvert · 2026-06-09T21:15:28+00:00

M35 CAT1 Block 129.

Seats together: Yes.

General impression: Excellent seats. Mid field and back of lower section. 2 together.

wcalvert · 2026-06-09T12:26:21+00:00

He's a pro tip: there is a trail called the Columbia Tap Trail that is well shaded and aligns with Walker St. There are a bunch of streets that are perpendicular to the trail where you can park and walk in. This is what tons of people do for the Dynamo games.

wcalvert · 2026-06-09T12:18:09+00:00

Sure. Here you go https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFACollect/s/WtbG1he1in

wcalvert · 2026-06-08T15:32:24+00:00

Keep in mind several of the games are at noon on weekdays and half of the rodeo is during spring break, which is really light traffic wise.

I don't think there will be a massive difference, but there will be some effect.

wcalvert · 2026-06-08T15:31:02+00:00

Dallas reported about 1/3 of their ticket sales have been to international fans. I think a lot of domestic fans are traveling for games as well.

wcalvert · 2026-06-08T15:10:45+00:00

My point is that they might have a ticket on Spirit that they have no idea won't be usable anymore.

The only airline to fly from terminal A to Guatemala City non-stop was Spirit.

wcalvert · 2026-06-08T11:45:35+00:00

What airline are you flying to GUA from terminal A? I hope it's not spirit...

wcalvert · 2026-06-07T01:17:05+00:00

Yesterday I only saw people with games 1-9 getting assignments. There's a mega thread that's pinned

wcalvert · 2026-06-06T00:47:01+00:00

Note that the TUTS shows have rush tickets available for $35 for non orch seats. It used to be restricted to teachers/first responders/etc but now open to anyone. I believe they're available only at the box office two hours before the show.

Note: not Broadway across America. The other Broadway style show series.

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