Bockfest kicks off this weekend, with plenty of street closures tonight and tomorrow.
Thanks to the parade and the Bockfest 5K, drivers Downtown and in Over-the-Rhine might find themselves stuck in long detours.
Here’s the full list of street closures:
Friday’s scheduled closures:
4 p.m.: Eighth Street – closed between Broadway and Main Street
5 p.m.: Sycamore Street – closed between Central Parkway and Seventh Street
Ninth Street – closed between Broadway and Main Street
(cross traffic will be maintained as long as possible)
6 p.m.:
Sycamore Street – closed between Liberty Street and Seventh Street
Main Street – closed between Central Pkwy and Liberty Street
Court Street – closed between Main Street and Sycamore Street
Central Parkway – closed between Walnut Street and Eggleston Avenue
Short Reading Road – closed between Eggleston Avenue and Main Street
Elliot Street – closed between Sycamore Street and Broadway
Twelfth Street – closed between Clay Street and Sycamore Street
Thirteenth Street – closed between Sycamore Street and Clay Street
Fourteenth Street – closed between Walnut Street and Sycamore Street
Orchard Street – closed between Sycamore Street and Main Street
Clay Street – closed between Thirteenth Street to Melindy Street
Saturday’s scheduled closures:
7 a.m.: Mehring Way – closed between Elm Street and Joe Nuxhall Way for Bockfest 5K Start/Finish Line construction
Joe Nuxhall Way – closed south of Second Street
9:30 a.m.:
Mehring Way – closed between Freeman Avenue and E Pete Rose Way
Gest Street – closed south of Third Street
W Pete Rose Way – closed between Central Avenue and Gest Street
Central Avenue – closed south of Third Street
Elm Street – closed south of Freedom Way
Marian Spencer Way – closed between Second Street and Freedom Way (local access maintained)
Marian Spencer Way – closed between Freedom Way and Ted Berry Way (local access maintained)
Freedom Way – closed east of Rosa Parks Street
Ramp LL – closed
Johnny Bench Way – closed
E Pete Rose Way – closed between Broadway/Taylor Southgate Bridge and Johnny Bench Way