Atlanta officials urge workers to carpool or work from home during the FIFA World Cup Tournament matches. Officials urge workers to consider carpooling to work or work from home to save money on gas and reduce traffic congestion.
Atlanta officials implemented plans to reduce traffic downtown and in Midtown during the World Cup, which begins on Thursday, June 11 and ends on July 19 across 13 host cities.
ATL – you ready for FIFA WORLD CUP?
Atlanta Police will have 1700 officers working 12 hour shifts and even more officers from other cities here assisting for the next 6 weeks! @11AliveNews #atl #fifa #worldcup #soccer pic.twitter.com/ZqqYcLPGme
— Sefenech Henok (@SefenechHenokTV) June 11, 2026
The FIFA Fan Festival gets underway at Centennial Olympic Park on Thursday, June 11. Admission is free and fans can watch soccer matches and enjoy concerts by Ludacris, Summer Walker, Davido, Cee-Lo Green, Killer Mike and other artists.
? FIFA fans can now reserve free tickets online for World Cup watch parties at Centennial Olympic Park.
Spots are available through the event website and will give fans a chance to watch matches alongside other supporters throughout the tournament. pic.twitter.com/lP2cJYUZSz
— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) June 11, 2026
A city ordinance went into effect to protect thousands of pedestrians who are in town from around the world to attend the World Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Officials installed “No Turn on Red” signs at intersections in the downtown and Midtown areas to avoid accidents and protect soccer fans, FOX5 Atlanta reported.
Atlanta Councilmember Michael Julian Bond said international visitors are not accustomed to cars turning on red lights. In their countries, cars stop at red lights and turn when the light is green.
“We’re going to have a tremendous amount of pedestrian traffic because of the World Cup,” Bond said. Police will be out in force to write tickets to drivers who turn right on red.
The Midtown Alliance said the new regulations allow people to walk across the street without fear of being run over by a car.
Several streets near Centennial Olympic Park Drive and the stadium changed to one-way, southbound traffic, making the commute to work even more maddening.
Police will man control centers around the city and communicate between multiple command posts.
“We will have boots on the ground. We will have people in different operational centers. We will have someone at the Georgia Department of Transportation operations center. We will have someone located inside the [Georgia World] Congress Center operational center. We will also rely on Atlanta DOT, their new integrated command center to also give us real-time information visually from the cameras around,” Atlanta Police Department Deputy Chief of Special Events, C. Hampton Jr., said.
MARTA says it is beefing up security. But Atlanta residents complain that there is no police presence at multiple MARTA stations following recent violent incidents on MARTA trains.
I visited 3 MARTA locations across downtown Atlanta.
No police. No security. Not even MARTA workers.
This is the security response after the recent shootings and murders across various MARTA station leading up to Atlanta hosting the World Cup pic.twitter.com/jRRINi4qr1
— David Khait (@David_Khait) June 9, 2026