ACL Festival Road Closures

ACL Road Closures – per the ACL Site (link):

Roads leading into the park area will close at 12:01 AM on Friday, October 12th, 2012 and will open again by 5:00AM on Monday, October 15th, 2012.

The following roads will be closed for ACL:

1. Barton Springs Road at Robert E. Lee (Barton Springs Pool Parking accessible at Robert E. Lee Entrance)
2. MoPac Frontage at Columbus Drive (No travel allowed into Zilker Park or Barton Springs Pool from this road)
3. Stratford Drive at Nature Center Drive

What a great weekend to leave the car at home and hop on the bicycle, or take the ol’ leather express.

-Jude

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From: From the Public Information Office
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM

City prepares for Austin City Limits Festival

The City of Austin welcomes the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival. The three-day musical event, which expects crowds upwards of 65,000 people, runs Friday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 4, at Zilker Park.  Motorists should expect delays around the Zilker Park/Barton Springs Road area and throughout downtown. The following streets will be directly affected:

· West Fourth Street between Nueces and Guadalupe streets (full closure)
· Barton Springs Road between Columbus Street and Robert E. Lee Road (full closure)
· Stratford Drive between Nature Center Drive and Barton Springs Road (full closure)
· West Fifth Street between San Antonio and Guadalupe streets (right lane closed)
· Guadalupe Street between West Third and West Fifth streets (parking lane closed)

Road closures begin at midnight Thursday and continue through midnight Sunday. A street closure map is available for download at www.cityofaustin.org/specialevents/downloads/aclfest_map_100209.pdf

There is no parking available at the festival site. Festival goers are encouraged to bike, walk or shuttle to the park. The official ACL Web site lists several parking/transportation options at www.aclfestival.com/info/transportation, and a complete schedule and map of Capital Metro’s free ACL shuttle service is available at www.capmetro.org/news/news_detail.asp?id=7495.

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