Heads up, Cambridge residents and visitors: come on Sunday, the streets will be thrumming not with the usual hum of traffic but with the pounding of runners' shoes during the Fall Classic 5K Road Race. Anticipate a flurry of street closures and plan your day accordingly to avoid unnecessary detours or delays. If you’re looking to navigate through the city, you might want to consider alternative routes or modes of transportation for the morning.
The City of Cambridge has laid out the specifics. Parts of Sidney and Franklin Streets will be off-limits to vehicular traffic, with "Sidney Street between Franklin Street and Pacific Street closed" and "Franklin Street between Brookline Street and Sidney Street closed," the city announced. Closure timings are scheduled from "9:00 – 11:00 AM on Sidney Street" and "9:15 – 11:00 AM on Franklin Street," so plan to reroute your Sunday drives around these times.
Along with the closures, residents should also brace for rolling closures as the race progresses. Key corridors like "Pacific St. to Albany St." and onward to "Massachusetts Ave." will witness short-term closures between "9:30 – 9:50 AM," with additional stretches like "Putnam Ave. to Brookline St." being temporarily shut down till about "10:15 AM."
