Belfast City Marathon 2022: Road closures and travel advice as race begins

The Belfast Town Marathon is again to its conventional May possibly Lender Holiday break day on Sunday and thousands of runners have established off from the Stormont Estate.

rowds were gathering in east Belfast for the past several hours with the street typically reserved for the Stormont politicians as an alternative stuffed with hundreds of runners, joggers and walkers.

A lot are location off on the gruelling race in a bid to increase dollars for charity, while for others it’s simply just for the enjoyment of jogging.

It’s also a landmark working day for the race itself, celebrating 40 many years due to the fact the initially marathon took place in 1982 and fitting specified the return to its typical slot for the very first time in a few many years as a end result of the pandemic.

The 26.2 mile-prolonged (42.1 km) race will take runners throughout east, north, west and south Belfast, in advance of ending in Ormeau Park, with a selection of roadways throughout the route closed for motorists for the duration of the morning and up until all-around 4.30pm.

Whole record of closures and diversions:

The space all around  Stormont and Higher Newtownards Road  will be closed to through site visitors concerning approximately 6am – 10.30am, as the runners make their way towards Beersbridge, Castlereagh and Montgomery Road parts.

A entire highway closure will then be in put on the Ravenhill Street (Albertbridge Road to Ormeau Embankment) from 7am – 11.30am.

Some disruption can be anticipated in the town centre about involving 8.30am – 12.30pm with whole road closures in place on Chichester Street, Wellington Area, May Street, Donegall Sq. and Howard Street places.

Some more disruption can be envisioned on the Boucher Street (Tates Avenue to Stockmans Lane) with a full road closure involving 8am – 1.30pm close to, as runners make their way on to Lislea Drive and Lisburn Highway, marking their marathon midway position.

Another point the place disruption can be envisioned is in the Andersonstown Highway and Falls Road places with lane closures and complete road closures in spot from roughly 9.30am – 2pm.

Complete highway closures will also be in place at approximately 9.30am – 3pm from Lanark Way, Crumlin Road and Antrim Highway locations with a Staff Relay changeover stage taking put on North Queen Avenue.

Some disruption again in the town centre as runners take on the remaining stretch of the marathon from Donegall Quay on to Oxford Road and Lanyon Spot (full highway closure 9.30am – 3pm).

Runners will make their way up Ormeau Highway to the Rosetta Roundabout and complete their journey down Ravenhill Road, onto Ormeau Embankment for the end at the Ozone Tennis Centre, Ormeau Park.

Translink have also confirmed they will be jogging some more trains to get runners and spectators to the start off line.