Abuzz with events this weekend, expect traffic delays around downtown.
The Old Pueblo Grand Prix bicycle criterium race, the Spring Club Crawl music festival, and the Greater Arizona Bicycling Association's Bicycle Swap Meet will result in detours and road closures.
• Club Crawl closures begin at 8 a.m. today, and continue till 8 a.m. Sunday.
The music festival will limit travel into downtown, closing South Fifth Avenue from Broadway to South Toole Avenue. East Congress Street from South Fourth to South Sixth Avenue and South Toole Avenue from East Congress to East Pennington Street will also be closed.
No left turns will be permitted along Broadway at Sixth, Fifth and Fourth avenues. And the Fourth Avenue underpass will be closed to vehicles.
Traffic on westbound Congress will be diverted to Broadway at South Fourth Avenue. Broadway will remain a two-way street from Sixth to Fourth avenues during the event.
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Parking restrictions will be implemented along Broadway from Sixth to Fourth avenues.
• The Bicycle Swap Meet will shut down North Fourth Avenue to traffic from East Sixth to East Ninth streets, from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
• Sunday's bicycle criterium race will also close streets throughout the area from 11:30 a.m. till 7 p.m.
North Church Avenue will be closed from West Alameda Street to Broadway, along with North Stone Avenue from East Toole to Broadway.
Pennington, Congress and Alameda Streets will be closed from Sixth to Church avenues.
• Bus routes for the events will be altered as follows:
Routes 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 16, 21, 22 and 23 will be detoured 8 a.m. today by Club Crawl until 6 a.m. Sunday.
Routes 3 and 5 will be affected today from 6:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at intersections west of Interstate 10 for the Tour of the Tucson Mountains event.
Routes 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 16, 19, 21 and 22 will be diverted for Sunday's bicycle criterium race, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with some stops being discontinued during the time period.
For more information on bus routes, call the Sun Tran Customer Service Center at 792-9222.
James Bourland is a University of Arizona student and apprentice at the Star. Contact him at starapprentice@azstarnet.com
