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Downtown L.A. streets to close for nighttime half-marathon

By Corina Knoll
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Road closures are planned Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles and Elysian Park to make way for a half-marathon that will take runners inside Dodger Stadium.

The 2013 New Year’s Race is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. at 7th Street and Grand Avenue.

More than 6,500 runners are expected to participate in the event, which includes a 5K and kids’ fun run. A festival will take place at the finish line at 11th and Hope Streets.

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Affected streets include Broadway, Cesar Chavez Avenue and Stadium Way near Dodger Stadium. Some of the closures will remain in effect until 6 a.m. Sunday. The route will be marked with restricted parking signs.

For the full road closure schedule, go to http://www.newyearsrace.com/contact/road-closure-notice.

Metro bus routes have already been detoured, and some will continue until Sunday morning. Routes that are scheduled to be detoured until 9 p.m. are listed at http://www.metro.net/service/advisories/update/special/559/, and routes that are expected to be detoured until 2 a.m. are listed at http://www.metro.net/service/advisories/update/special/560/.

According to Metro’s website, the best way to avoid detours is to use Metro Rail.

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-- Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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