{"id":458843,"date":"2025-12-20T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:10:14","slug":"san-antonio-roads-open-for-shopping-bowl-game-new-years-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458843\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio roads open for shopping, bowl game, New Year&#8217;s bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.tpr.org\/a\/tpr-newsletter-signup?_gl=1*1phswoa*_ga*MjEzNjkyODYwNy4xNzU1NjI3NDU2*_ga_0B2CYK6231*czE3NjYxODIwMzUkbzc0JGcxJHQxNzY2MTgyMDM3JGo1OCRsMCRoMA..\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPR Today<\/a>, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is wrapping up some construction, at least for now, as a holiday gift to travelers through San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Friday, Dec. 19 and continuing through Jan. 5, TxDOT has paused construction at Loop 1604 and I-10.  The giant interchange serves major shopping areas, like La Cantera and The Rim.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some Christmas cheer for the 150,000 motorists who use that busy interchange every day.<\/p>\n<p>And a spokesperson from TxDOT, Jennifer Serold, has this little stocking stuffer of good news for drivers about overnight work pausing soon on I-35 on the Northeast Side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 35 closures will still continue overnight through Tuesday of next week,&#8221; Serold said.<\/p>\n<p>She adds all downtown San Antonio closures to repair upper-level bridge joints have been picked up as well.<\/p>\n<p>Those bridge joints allow the upper decks of freeways to expand and contract in hot and cold weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The break in construction downtown is good news for shoppers who like to flock downtown for holiday shopping, like at Market Square, or for some Christmas light gazing. <\/p>\n<p>The Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome, between the unranked TCU Horn Frogs and number 16 USC Trojans, will also be in need of wide-open freeways on game day, Dec. 30.<\/p>\n<p>And the countdown to 2026 at Hemisfair on New Year&#8217;s Eve, known as &#8220;Celebrate San Antonio,&#8221; attracts tens-of-thousands of revelers downtown to watch the midnight fireworks show light up the Tower of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for\u00a0TPR Today, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-458843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115748996820078248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}