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Expect Traffic Delays June 6-9 due to MIT Graduations, Brattle Concert, Dance for World Community Festival, Craft Brewfest, Freedom Run 5K, Dragon Boat Festival

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Expect Traffic Impacts in and around Cambridge from several events this weekend:

MIT Doctoral Commencement – Ceremony in Killian Ct (10:00 a.m., 6/6/2019) - Expect significant traffic delays in front of MIT along Mass Ave to Memorial Drive, in front of MIT along memorial Dr. to the end of Killian Ct, On the east side of Vassar St from Mass Ave to the MIT Playing Fields.

MIT Primary Commencement – Ceremony in Killian Ct (10:00 a.m., 6/7/2019) Expect significant traffic delays in front of MIT along Mass Ave to Memorial Drive, in front of MIT along Memorial Dr to the end of Killian ct, On the east side of Vassar St. from Mass Ave to the MIT playing fields.

Brattle Concert Series (11 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., 6/8/2019) – Expect traffic delays around Deguglielmo Plaza.

8th Annual Hyper-Local Craft Brewfest (2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., 6/8/2019) – Expect traffic delays around Lansdowne Quad, University Park, and 38 Sidney Street.

Dance for the World Community Festival (6:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., 6/8/2019) – Road Closures from 6 a.m. – 8 p.m. Mass Ave will be closed from Trowbridge St. to Bow St.

Freedom Run 5k (8:00 a.m. – 11 a.m., 6/9/2019) – Rolling road closures from 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. 
First Street will be closed from Cambridge St to Binney St from 8:30am – 10:45am
 
The following streets, while open, may see some delays:
 
Binney St, from First St to Cardinal Medeiros Ave, 9:33am – 9:50am
Cardinal Medeiros Ave, from Binney St to Hampshire St, 9:35am – 9:45am
Hampshire St, from Card Medeiros Ave to Cambridge St, 9:35am – 9:55am.
Cambridge St, from Hampshire St to First St, 9:38am – 10:10am.

Boston Dragon Boat Festival (All day, 6/9/2019) – along Memorial Drive at Weeks Foot Bridge, expect traffic delays around this area.


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