Rio Finalizes Security and Transport Plan Ahead of Rock in Rio

Overview

• Officials finalized operational plans this week for the festival that starts Friday, Sept. 4, and runs across two weekends with gate openings and site desmobilization scheduled through Sept. 18.
• Security will deploy 7,680 personnel including 4,500 military police, plainclothes teams, a mobile airspace/drone control center and an on‑site projection of the 16th police station to register incidents without victims leaving the Cidade do Rock.
• Traffic measures include road closures from 14:00 on show days, 210 traffic operators, ten OCR license‑plate blockade points to filter authorized vehicles, and a suspension of some maintenance works to ease late departures.
• Transport services are special BRT 'Expresso Rock in Rio' lines sold via the Jaé app for R$29 round trip, a 24‑hour metro link at Jardim Oceânico, overnight VLT runs and guidance that a full multimodal round trip can cost up to about R$49.80.
• Organizers opened in‑app advance sales for food and drink with QR pickup, reusable‑cup discounts and automatic refunds for uncollected items, and analysts project the festival will bring roughly 100,000 daily attendees, R$3.3 billion in local impact and about 33,900 jobs.