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When parking is free, what’s closed and more to know for Labor Day in Lawrence
Parking downtown will be free, Sports Pavilion Lawrence will be closed and more notes ahead of the Labor Day holiday in Lawrence
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Parking downtown will be free, Sports Pavilion Lawrence will be closed and more notes ahead of the Labor Day holiday in Lawrence
A couple of blocks of 11th Street will be closed before and after KU football home games for increased pedestrian and traffic safety. Also, construction on Haskell south of 23rd may wrap up earlier than originally slated.
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The city aims to open one lane of Tennessee Street between Sixth and Ninth streets this week, while keeping blocks of Eighth Street east and west of Tennessee closed.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Football devotees can park downtown and take fare-free Lawrence Transit buses to get to the Jayhawks’ games this fall.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will have more deputies on patrol than usual this weekend through Labor Day, looking for impaired and distracted drivers. Here are some ways to get home safely.
Starting next week, Lawrence will see changes in traffic patterns along a stretch of 27th Street, as well as at the intersection of West Second Street and McDonald Drive. Here are the details.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence has launched a website to consolidate downtown parking payment methods, and a new text-to-pay option. Here are some FAQs about how to pay for parking, which apps to use, alternate ways to get downtown and more.
About half a mile of Second Street will close to through traffic, work on Iowa Street will flip to the other side of the road and more roadwork will be underway in the coming week.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence is considering increasing the cost of parking throughout downtown, expanding enforcement hours and more. People who live and work downtown naturally bear the brunt of these costs.
Kansas Highway 10 in western Lawrence will be reduced to one lane in multiple places for construction work this week and next.
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