Long Beach Marathon Sunday
October 13 will again impact East Long Beach
The Long Beach Marathon and the VW Think Blue Bike Tour will
both take place this Sunday October 13th.
Beginning in downtown Long Beach,
the marathon will make its way down Ocean into Belmont Heights
and up Park Ave
to Anaheim Street. Runners and bicyclists will head east on Anaheim, then travel up Anaheim
to Clark, north on Clark to Atherton -east on
Atherton to CSULB- then back the same route to downtown.
Street Closures in East Long Beach
will include:
Park Ave
Clark Ave
Atherton Ave
Major intersections in East Long Beach
that will have delays in crossing will include:
7th Street
and Park (Wilson High School corner)
PCH and Clark
Atherton and Bellflower
Extra heavy traffic should be anticipated on neighborhood
streets in the Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods as motorists look for a
way around the marathon by cutting through unfamiliar neighborhood streets.
Major area streets with extra heavy traffic will include:
Stearns Street
Ximeno Street
Los Coyotes
Bellflower
Blvd.
Palo Verde
PCH
Studebaker
The Quiznos
corporation avoided bankruptcy in January when the sandwich chain shifted corporate
ownership to private equity Avenue Capital.
