Motorist Advisory - Flower City Challenge to Alter Several Traffic Patterns(1)

City of Rochester


Motorist Advisory


(Thursday, April 19, 2018) – The Half Marathon and 5K races associated with the Rochester Regional Health System Flower City Challenge will create the following traffic impacts on the morning of Sunday, April 22. The race will take runners through various city neighborhoods. The following streets will be closed until the final runner leaves the area and will re-open as soon as possible after that:

• 6 p.m., Saturday, April 21 to 11 p.m., Sunday, April 22: Broad Street Bridge closed to all traffic.

Sunday, April 22:
    o 7:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Court and Broad Street Bridges closed to all traffic.
    o 7:15 to 9 a.m. - Race begins on the Broad Street Bridge and proceeds to West Main Street to Madison Street to Brown Street to Morrie Silver Way to State Street to East Main Street.
    o 7:45 to 9 a.m. - East Main Street from State Street to East Avenue, East Avenue to Pitkin Street, to Broad St, to East Avenue, to Argyle Street to Park Avenue to South Goodman Street.
    o 7:45 to 9 a.m. – South Avenue from Main Street to Court Street.
    o 8 to 10 a.m. - South Goodman Street from Park Avenue to Pinetum Drive. (Exit 17 from I-490 will be closed.)
    o 8 to 11 a.m. - Pinetum Drive from South Goodman Street to Doctors Street to Mt. Vernon Avenue to Alpine Street, cross South Avenue, Robinson Drive from South Avenue to Mt. Hope          Avenue, though Mt. Hope Cemetery to the River Path along Wilson Boulevard to the Ford Street Bridge.
    o 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Exchange Boulevard from Ford Street to West Broad Street.

The following intersections will not be closed but will experience delays:
• South Plymouth Avenue at West Broad Street.
• Exit 13 from I-490 will be directed south on Brown Street
• State Street between Brown Street and Church Street will allow northbound traffic only.
• South Clinton Avenue at East Main Street.
• Chestnut Street at East Avenue.
• Scio Street at East Avenue.
• Pitkin Street at East Avenue
• Alexander Street at East Avenue.
• Street Crossings at Park Avenue.
• Harvard Street at South Goodman Street.
• Monroe Avenue at Goodman Street.
• South Clinton Avenue at South Goodman (Access to Route I-490 East only).
• South Avenue at Alpine Street/Robinson Drive.
• Mt. Hope Avenue at Robinson Drive.
• Wilson Boulevard at Elmwood Avenue (access to and from Wilson Boulevard from Elmwood Avenue during peak runner times will be restricted. Use Intercampus Drive, Ford Street or McLean Street).

A color-coded diagram of the routes including approximate time of the road closures is available at www.flowercitychallenge.com/race-weekend/course-map/traffic-advisory.

All times are approximate. Local residential traffic will be delayed but accommodated.

RTS Riders: for more information and the detour routes and Downtown boarding locations, please call customer service at 288-1700 or visit www.RGRTA.com.

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News Media: For more information, contact Nicole Mau of Yellow Jacket Racing at (585) 732-1090.