{"id":432153,"date":"2024-10-19T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=432153"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T19:05:36","slug":"arkansas-facing-potential-traffic-issue-due-to-water-main-break-ahead-of-lsu-game","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/arkansas-facing-potential-traffic-issue-due-to-water-main-break-ahead-of-lsu-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas facing potential traffic issue due to water main break ahead of LSU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas encountered an issue long before the Razorbacks kicked off with No. 8 LSU on Saturday night in Fayetteville.<\/p>\n<p>A water main burst under the primary artery that funnels into Razorback Stadium at the corner of Razorback Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Two southbound lanes were closed, and 1 eastbound lane was closed as well.<\/p>\n<p>This issue happening on any day would be cause for concern and a traffic nightmare. But on an Arkansas football game day? Well, that&#8217;s about the worst timing you could have for something like this. Huge traffic issues are now looming long before the 7 p.m. ET kickoff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huge traffic issues looming before kickoff between LSU and Arkansas. <\/p>\n<p>A water main burst under the primary artery into Razorback Stadium at the corner of Razorback Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 2 Southbound lanes closed, 1 eastbound lane closed. (Photo Fayetteville PD) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UU8Az7fvgH\">pic.twitter.com\/UU8Az7fvgH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bmarcello\/status\/1847702252724588698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All of this means it could be a late-arriving crowd for the primetime SEC showdown on ESPN. The only positive from this, if you could frame it that way, is that it&#8217;s a night game, so there is some time during the afternoon to fix the issue. Had it been an afternoon game, there&#8217;s no telling when fans would be arriving for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas is coming off a bye week following its home, primetime upset of Tennessee the week before. So, the 4-2 Razorbacks will be trying to pull off another stunner at home and in primetime against the 5-1 Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas football was looking at a fiasco that had nothing to do with anything on the field on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":432154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-432153","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-arkansas-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/432153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}