Road closures in downtown Akron due to 5K event, Akron OH
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Road ClosureAccording to the dispatch call, multiple streets in downtown Akron near Cedar Street and Main Street are closed for a 5K race supporting the food bank. Police are managing traffic and rerouting buses to accommodate the event.
Audio|Heard on: Summit OH Transportation Group Calls
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03:38
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, something's going on them.
00:02
He headed down Cedar, and they got it down in one lane.
00:07
It's Cedar and Dart also.
00:09
Police out here flag and traffic.
00:11
It looks like it's going all the way up towards downtown on Dark.
00:16
They got police activity.
00:20
Okay, it could be like a Christmas parade, marathon, or something like that.
00:26
I just got to get over and check it up.
00:30
Two, one of them over five.
00:31
Yeah, on Main Street, they got to be some type of running some because they got a water table set up in front of Canal Park.
00:38
Well, I know.
00:41
Go ahead in the park.
00:44
Well, what's a 5K benefiting, Akron,
00:47
Kent, the food bank.
00:49
Starts over there by the big.
00:51
It goes down dark to mill, no pain.
00:53
May and the purchase back over to the food bank.
00:57
Happy.
01:00
Copy.
01:03
Yeah, it looks like they got bar just closed.
01:06
I'm gonna make a right here, I guess, outbound one.
01:11
How far down, where should I go, mobile five? You got any idea I'll get through?
01:17
I think I have to look for you leave.
01:22
I'm headed that way, I'm not there yet.
01:26
I got it, Kathy.
01:29
It looks like you're going to have to take it all the way down the market.
01:33
I just trust with him name and he's not letting nobody go down there.
01:39
Good job, thanks.
01:42
Joppy, no problem.
01:45
All buses leaving the transit,
01:47
the one line, set line.
01:49
Let's just use Broadway to a left on our market.
01:54
Coming back in, inbound, you're going to use High Street, stand off of Maine for the time being.
02:02
I found threes and nines I'll have to get with you.
02:08
Here in a second, I'm not quite sure where you're closed off at, but maybe five minutes away.
02:13
But I am headed there.
02:16
16, Jim Bow,
02:19
oh, he's left, so never mind,
02:21
but it's closed off.
02:23
Uh,
02:24
the bridge is closed off.
02:26
Uh,
02:29
and... Cedar.
02:35
He did just let me through, but nobody else was done.
02:41
All right, so what was closed off again?
02:45
Say that again?
02:47
That's what I'm asking you.
02:49
You said a bridge was closed off.
02:52
I got the other one on Euclid.
02:55
What bridge are you referring to now?
02:58
Coming downtown in the Inbound 16 on Cedar, right there at Cedar and Maine, that bridge right there downtown.
03:08
It's across Maine.
03:11
It's closed off.
03:13
I copy. So we'll go to barges.
03:19
We'll use barges right now.
03:23
I do appreciate you guys working your way through it.
03:27
5K got thrown up on us pretty quick.
03:31
And I would have put something down that I'd known about it.
03:35
But give me a sec, let me get down,
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Location mentioned:
W Cedar St & S Main St, Akron, OH 44311
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