Roads to Be Closed to Traffic and Alternative Routes Due to the İstanbul Half Marathon

REPUBLIC OF TÜRKIYE

İSTANBUL GOVERNORATE

Provincial Directorate of Press and Public Relations

Roads to Be Closed to Traffic and Alternative Routes Due to the İstanbul Half Marathon

The roads to be temporarily closed to traffic and the alternative routes due to the İstanbul Half Marathon to be held in our province on Sunday, 27 March 2022, are listed below.

Respectfully announced to the public.

23.03.2022

Roads to Be Closed from 5:00 PM on Saturday, 26.03.2022 until 2:00 PM on Sunday, 27.03.2022

• The two-way road in front of Yenikapı Square, above the event area variant

Roads to Be Closed from 2:00 AM – 2:00 PM on Sunday, 27.03.2022

• Samatya South Road, Kennedy Coastal South Road, the Sirkeci-Sultanahmet junction, between Yenikapı and the İDO terminal
• Namık Kemal variant turns
• Connection from the Yenikapı Event Area to the Namık Kemal variant heading south
• Kennedy Coastal North, between the Avrasya Tunnel Aksaray junctions and the Namık Kemal variant

Roads to Be Closed from 6:00 AM - 1:30 PM on Sunday, 27.03.2022

• Ayvansaray Avenue, in both directions
• The connecting roads from Atatürk Boulevard toward Ragıpgümüşpala Avenue and Abdulezelpaşa Avenue
• Reşadiye Avenue, in both directions
• Ragıpgümüşpala Avenue, in both directions
• Abdulezelpaşa Avenue, in both directions
• Kadirhas Avenue, in both directions
• Mürselpaşa Avenue, in both directions
• The Galata Bridge, in both directions
• Ankara Avenue will be closed from the Hamidiye Junction toward Sirkeci.
• From Ayvansaray, the direction toward Sirkeci will be closed and the direction toward Eyüp will be closed.
• Traffic from Yedikule Avenue will be directed toward D100 North, and no traffic will be permitted toward Ayvansaray.
• The descent from Savaklar Avenue to Ayvansaray, joining the Balat Coastal road
• The descents from E5 South to Ayvansaray

Roads to Be Closed from 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM on Sunday, 27.03.2022

• The Gülhane Park lower coastal entrances
• Cankurtaran (no turns toward the coast will be allowed from Ahırkapı Street and Ahırkapı İskele Street.)
• Çatladıkapı (no turns toward the coast will be allowed from Aksakal Street and Küçük Ayasofya Avenue.)
• Kumkapı (no traffic will be permitted toward the coast to the north from Işıl Street, the Kumluk Underpass, the Kumkapı Underpass, the Fatih Municipality artificial turf field exits on the Coastal North, or İskele Meydanı Street.)
• The Namık Kemal Avenue connection to Kennedy Coastal Road will be closed.
• The Gazi Mustafa Kemal Paşa Avenue connection will be closed (traffic will be turned back over the variant.)
• The Kennedy Coastal North Road from the Avrasya Tunnel to the Aksaray junctions
• Samatya South (including the Kennedy Coastal transit road and the Avrasya emergency exits (with the Avrasya Tunnel remaining open in both directions), all roads connecting in both directions up to Ayvansaray will be closed to traffic.)

Alternative Routes

• Atatürk Boulevard
• Avrasya Tunnel
• Atatürk Bridge
• Haliç Bridge
• Vatan Avenue
• Millet Avenue
• Fevzipaşa Avenue
• D 100 North-South Road
• Türkeli Avenue
• Aksaray Avenue
• Namık Kemal Avenue (for vehicles travelling to and from the İDO terminal)
• Orgeneral Nafız Gürman Avenue
• Kızılelma Avenue
• Onuncu Yıl Avenue
• Kennedy Coastal Avenue, Samatya South, the Yenikapı Event Area turns
• Coastal North Kennedy Avenue, from the Samatya exits in both directions up to the Havuzlu junction
• Küçük Langa Aralığı Avenue