May 12, 2008
Various events downtown could snarl Saturday traffic
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Motorists using downtown streets on Saturday are being warned of delays due to the annual Preakness Parade and a Kenny Chesney concert at M&T Bank Stadium scheduled for the afternoon. Additional events are being held at the Baltimore Convention Center, and city transportation officials said traffic could be heavy from 8 a.m. to midnight.
More than 7,500 spectators are expected to watch the parade -- which will include 6,000 participants and 30 floats -- that begins at 11 a.m. at Pratt and Howard streets and ends around 2 p.m. at Market Place.
The following streets will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Pratt Street from Paca to Howard streets; and Eutaw Street from Lombard to Pratt streets. Northbound Paca Street will be reduced to two lanes from Camden to Lombard streets.
Streets closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Market Place from Pratt to Lombard streets; and Pratt Street from Market Place to President Street. From 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pratt Street from Howard to President streets will be closed.
Northbound Paca Street traffic headed for Pratt Street will be detoured east onto Baltimore Street, south onto President Street and return to Pratt. Southbound Eutaw Street traffic headed for Interstate 395 will be detoured west onto Lombard Street, south on to Greene Street, west on to Washington Boulevard and onto to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which turns into I-395.
In addition to the parade, the Kenny Chesney concert at the arena is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. and is expected to draw 45,000 people. Tailgaters are expected to start arriving about 8 a.m.
The Baltimore Department of Transportation is urging people to use public transportation, including buses and light rail trains.
Due to incorrect information provided, an earlier version of this article contained inaccurate detour information for traffic headed south on Eutaw Street. The Sun regrets the error.
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