Street Closures In Cleveland For 1st Presidential Debate

CLEVELAND — The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be held Tuesday night in Cleveland. The event will cause plenty of local traffic disruptions for Northeast Ohioans.

Despite the continued threat of COVID-19, security, protesters and interested attendees are expected to swarm the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic. To accommodate the crush of people, several changes to traffic will be implemented.

First, the Samson Pavilion has been closed to students and teachers at Case since Saturday. The facility will reopen Wednesday.

Second, the following street closures will be or have been implemened:

• Chester Avenue, between E. 89th and E. 101st, has been closed in both directions
• Euclid Avenue between E. 89th and E. 105th has been closed in both directions
• E. 90th, E. 96th and E. 100th, between Euclid and Chester, have been closed in both directions
• E. 100th Street, between Carnegie and Euclid, will be restricted to northbound traffic only
• E. 100th Street will also be closed at Euclid
• E. 101st, between Euclid and Chester, will remain open but can only be accessed from Chester westbound
• Starting Tuesday, E. 93rd, going north, will be closed between Euclid and Chester

The street closures will impact some RTA transit lines, including the #7, #9, #32, #48-48A and HealthLine lines. All stops inside the road closures will be closed.

Here's everything you need to know about Tuesday's debate.

The Cleveland Clinic's main entrance has been temporarily moved from the Miller Pavilion to the Glickman Building on E. 96th. The main entrance to the Cleveland Clinic Children's Outpatient Center has been moved to E. 90th.

All normal street operations around the Cleveland Clinic will resume on Thursday.