Road Closures Scheduled Downtown For New Year's Eve

If you're driving around downtown tomorrow, expect street closures and parking restrictions for the annual New Year's Eve celebration and fireworks at the Inner Harbor.

City transportation officials have a list of traffic closures in place. One set of closures is in place from 2 p.m. Thursday to 2 a.m. Friday. During that time, commercial vehicles (not including taxis, buses and other modes of transportation) will not be allowed on the following stretches: 

• Fayette Street from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to President Street (no commercial vehicles may travel on or south of Fayette Street)
• President Street from Aliceanna to Fayette Streets (no commercial vehicles on or west of President Street)
• Light Street from Pratt Street to Key Highway
• Key Highway from Light to McComas Streets
• Hanover Street from McComas to Montgomery Streets (no commercial vehicles on or north of McComas Street, including Hanover Street)
• Pratt and Lombard Streets from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to President Street
• I-395 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. split to Pratt Street (no commercial vehicles on I-395)

Another set of roads be closed to all traffic from 11 p.m. Thursday until the New Year's event is over.

• Pratt Street will be closed at Charles Street – Pratt Street traffic will be diverted onto northbound Charles Street to continue east on Baltimore Street.
• Lombard Street will be closed at President Street - Westbound Lombard Street traffic will be diverted north at President Street to continue west on Fayette Street.
• Northbound I-395 traffic at Conway Street will be detoured north on Howard Street. No access will be allowed onto eastbound Conway Street.
• Southbound Light Street at Lombard Street – Southbound Light Street traffic will be diverted onto Lombard Street to continue south on Sharp Street.
• Northbound Light Street at Lee Street – Northbound Light Street traffic will be diverted onto Lee Street to continue north on Charles Street.

There are also several parking restrictions in effect from 6 p.m. Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday: Gay Street from Pratt to Fayette streets, Calvert Street from Pratt to Fayette streets, Baltimore Street from Charles to Gay streets, the south side of Key Highway from Light to William streets and designated emergency lanes.

Transportation officials urge revelers to take mass transit. Light Rail and Metro Subway will operate one hour after the fireworks, and the Charm City Circulator will operate with extended hours.