Beware many road closures for AJC Peachtree Road Race

Some closures begin two days before race starts Wednesday.

By Becca J.G. Godwin

The Atlanta Police Department has released timing for the 2018 AJC Peachtree Road Race street closures, some of which begin two days before the race starts.

You can get more information about the Peachtree Road Race at AJC.com/peachtree.

Tenth Street from Charles Allen to Monroe Drive will be closed from Monday at 9:30 a.m. to Wednesday at 5 p.m. Finish area closures Wednesday:

■ Tenth Street from Myrtle to Charles Allen will be closed from 2:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

■ Monroe Drive from Kanuga to Virginia will be closed from 5:30 a.m. to noon.

■ Eighth Street from Monroe to Peachtree Street will be closed from 7:15 a.m. to noon.

■ Peachtree Place from Peachtree Street to West Peachtree will be closed from 8 a.m. to noon.

Start areaclosures Wednesday: Peachtree Road will close at midnight between Lenox Road and around Lenox Parkway. All other road closures around the start, listed below, will occur at 4:30 a.m. for vehicular traffic and 6 a.m. for foot traffic.

■ Peachtree Road from Lenox Road to Peachtree Dunwoody Road

■ GA 400 northbound exit ramp at Lenox Road

■ Around Lenox Road from Peachtree Road to Lenox Road

■ Lenox Road from Peachtree Road to Ferncliff Road

■ Buckhead Loop from Peachtree Road to GA 400

■ Phipps Boulevard from Buck- head Loop to Wieuca Road

■ Wieuca Road from Old Ivy Road to Roxboro Road

■ Roxboro Road from Kingsboro Road to Peachtree Dunwoody Road

■ Pritchard Way from Roxboro Road to Oak Valley Road

■ Lakeside Drive from Pritchard Road to Kingsboro Road

■ Kingsboro Road from Roxboro Road to Lenox Road

■ Oak Va l ley Road from Peachtree Road to East Paces Ferry Road

■ Wright Avenue from Lenox Road to Oak Valley Road Course closures Wednesday: APD will close the entire course at 4:30 a.m. for vehicular traffic and 6 a.m. for foot traffic. Only official vehicle traffic will be permitted along the course after 4:30 a.m.

Police and volunteers will work with pedestrians to cross the course until 6 a.m.

CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM 2014 Race officials with the Atlanta Track Club go over final preparations at the finish line for the AJC Peachtree Road Race at Piedmont Park in 2014. Tens of thousands of runners will gather Wednesday morning at Lenox Square in Buckhead to start this...