CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The show isn't until tonight, but the setup for the fireworks show started early this morning.

The fireworks are expected to draw thousands to Uptown Charlotte tonight.

It's getting those people in and out that had officials planning ahead.

“If you use the LYNX, you won’t have to mess with traffic at all,” Mora Quinn, with Center City Partners.

She said your best bet tonight is jumping on the LYNX train, getting off at the Trade Street Station, and then hoping on a bus.

CATS are running shuttles from trade to memorial stadium.

It will cost you $1.30 each way but with no on-street parking tonight the shuttles are a great option.

“It will run until everyone is delivered back to the LYNX train,” Quinn said.

Also prepping for tonight are police.

They say with the normal bar crowd of a Friday night and then the influx of people coming in after the fireworks, officers will be busy.

Police spent the afternoon finishing a temporary processing-center for any arrests made tonight.

Nearly 500 officers will be on the streets, keeping an eye on adults and children.

“If you are a young person, you need to be very aware of the curfew, and the police will be watching very carefully for the curfew,” Quinn said.

That curfew for kids is midnight.

Channel 9 spoke to one officer who said he expects upwards of 60 arrests will be made Friday night.