LA Marathon: Street Closures Planned from Dodger Stadium to Century City

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Rolling closures of streets and freeway ramps from Dodger Stadium to Century City are planned Sunday to accommodate the 38th annual Los Angeles Marathon.

Beginning at 6:30 a.m., thousands of runners will depart Dodger Stadium and pass through downtown Los Angeles, Echo Park, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood, Brentwood and back to Century City, where a finish line festival will be held.

Most of the roadway closures will begin at about 4 a.m. Sunday. Streets on the early parts of the course will reopen once all runners pass and the roadways are cleared. Many streets will be reopened by 1 p.m., with the exception of those near the finish line, where closures will continue until 5 p.m.

The following closure will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m.:

-- Vin Scully Avenue from Dodger Stadium to Sunset Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.:

-- Sunset Boulevard from Park Avenue to Figueroa Street.

The following closure will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 9:32 a.m.:

-- Cesar Chavez Avenue from Bunker Hill to Alameda Street.

The following closures will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 9:35 a.m.:

-- Broadway from Cesar Chavez Avenue to Alpine Street;

-- Alpine Street from Hill Street to Alameda Street; and

-- Spring Street from College Street to First Street.

The following closures will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.:

-- First Street from Hope Street to San Pedro Street;

-- Los Angeles Street from Temple Street to Fifth Street;

-- Fourth Street from Los Angeles Street to Main Street;

-- Main Street from Fifth Street to Temple Street;

-- Third Street from San Pedro Street to Hill Street; and

-- Hill Street from Fourth Street to Temple Street.

The following closures will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.:

-- First Street from San Pedro Street to Hope Street; and

-- Grand Avenue from Cesar Chavez Avenue to Second Street.

The following closures will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.:

-- Temple Street from Alameda Street to Glendale Boulevard;

-- Edgeware Road from Temple Street to Boston Street; and

-- Bellevue Avenue from Sunset Boulevard to Glendale Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.:

-- Glendale Boulevard from Temple Street to Sunset Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.:

-- Sunset Boulevard from Echo Park Avenue to Virgil Avenue.

The following closures will be in effect from 4 a.m. to noon:

-- Hollywood Boulevard from Hillhurst Avenue to La Brea Avenue; and

-- Orange Avenue from Hollywood Boulevard to Sunset Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.:

-- Sunset Boulevard from Highland Avenue to Doheny Drive.

The following closures will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m.:

-- San Vicente Boulevard from Sunset Boulevard to Melrose Avenue;

-- Santa Monica Boulevard from La Cienega Boulevard to Sierra Drive;

-- Doheny Drive from Nemo Street to Wilshire Boulevard;

-- Burton Way from Robertson Boulevard to Rexford Drive;

-- South Santa Monica Boulevard from Rexford Drive to Moreno Drive;

-- Rodeo Drive from Santa Monica Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard; and

-- Wilshire Boulevard from Beverly Drive to Santa Monica Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.:

-- Santa Monica Boulevard from Wilshire Boulevard to Sepulveda Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.:

-- Sepulveda Boulevard from Santa Monica Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard.

The following closure will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.:

-- Wilshire Boulevard from Sepulveda Boulevard to Barrington Avenue.

The following closure will be in effect from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.:

-- San Vicente Boulevard from Wilshire Boulevard to Saltair Avenue.

Avenue of the Stars between Santa Monica Boulevard and Constellation will be closed throughout marathon weekend, closing at 8 a.m. Saturday and reopening at 8 p.m. Sunday. Eastbound lanes of Santa Monica Boulevard will be closed from Avenue of the Stars to Century Park East from 9 p.m. Saturday until 6 p.m. Sunday. Century Park East will be closed from Santa Monica to Constellation from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 p.m. Sunday. Century Park East from Constellation to Olympic will be closed from 3 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.

Some additional street closures will be in effect that are not officially part of the race course. Those "local access" closures will occur in Elysian Park, downtown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Hollywood and West Hollywood. Residents who live in those areas will be granted access to closed streets.

According to Caltrans, between roughly 1 a.m. and 4 p.m., the following freeway ramps will be closed:

-- On the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway, the Hill Street/Stadium Way ramp and the Temple Street ramp;

-- On the southbound Harbor Freeway, the Hill Street, Stadium Way and Sunset Boulevard/Figueroa Street ramps.

-- On the northbound Hollywood (101) Freeway, the Spring Street, Grand Avenue, Glendale Boulevard/Echo Park Avenue and Sunset/Hollywood ramps, and the left turn lane of the Gower Street ramp and right turn lane of the Highland Avenue ramp.

-- On the southbound 101 Freeway, the Broadway, Temple, Sunset/Hollywood and Highland ramps, and the right turn lane of the Gower Street and Vine Street ramps, and the Academy Road ramp to the Amador on-ramp.

-- On the northbound Santa Monica (405) Freeway, the westbound Wilshire Boulevard off-ramp.

-- On the southbound 405 Freeway, the left-turn lane of the Santa Monica Boulevard off-ramp and the Wilshire Boulevard off-ramp.