Streets to become one-ways for IU vs. Towson game

Today, Memorial Stadium will host IU Football’s first game of the season against The Towson University Tigers. Whether you are making plans to attend the game, visit the tailgates or continue with daily life as usual, one aspect of the event will affect all of us- the traffic.

The event will be responsible for two alternate traffic patterns, one before the game and a different pattern following.

The clockwise traffic pattern around Memorial Stadium should take affect at roughly 5:30 p.m., two hours prior to kickoff. Fee Lane, between the Bypass and 17th Street will turn into a one-way street, with traffic moving only southbound, toward 17th Street.

Seventeenth Street, between Fee Lane and Dunn Street, will turn into a one-way, with traffic patterns heading in the west direction , toward Dunn Street. However, cars on 17th Street will head only to the east as it turns into a one-way street between North Walnut and Dunn Streets. Dunn Street will also turn into a one-way, with traffic headed in only the north direction, toward the Bypass.

The 45/46 Bypass will continue to have traffic traveling in both directions,until the postgame traffic patterns take effect. However, only those heading east, away from S.R. 37, will be allowed to enter the Purple Lot on the north side of the stadium.

The postgame traffic patterns will differ from the pregame routes in order to allow game attendees to exit the stadium as quickly as possible. Fee Lane and Dunn Street will remain one way streets, however both streets will have traffic flow in the north direction only, toward the 45/46 Bypass.

The Bypass, between Fee Lane and Walnut Street, will become one-ways with traffic heading in the west direction, toward S.R. 37. Traffic on 17th Street will be one-way west, toward Walnut, from Fess Avenue to Walnut Street. Traffic on 17th Street will become one-way east, toward Fee, from Woodlawn Avenue to Fee Lane.

For traffic maps and updated information visit iuhoosiers.cstv.com