{"id":30986,"date":"2017-10-18T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fallen-wires-close-kents-central-avenue-at-willis-street\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:46:08","slug":"fallen-wires-close-kents-central-avenue-at-willis-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fallen-wires-close-kents-central-avenue-at-willis-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen wires close lanes at Kent’s Central Avenue at Willis Street | Update Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers can expect lane closures Thursday and Friday on Central Avenue South and Willis Street<\/a> due to due to power line repairs following Wednesday evening’s windstorm.<\/p>\n

The following lane closures will be in place for the next 24 hours, according to a city of Kent traffic update posted at 7:30 a.m. Thursday:<\/p>\n

• Central Ave S northbound we have 2 lanes closed at Willis St, the westbound turn lane is still in use for all through traffic, you may turn west on Willis St. as needed<\/p>\n

• Central Ave S southbound all lanes of traffic are still in use<\/p>\n

• On Willis St westbound we have all lanes of traffic in use<\/p>\n

• On Willis St eastbound at Bridges Ave S to Central Ave S the southbound turn lane is closed but you can still turn south on Central Ave S as needed<\/p>\n

Detour routes:<\/p>\n

• Northbound traffic on Central Ave S will be detoured to the west at E Russell St for 1 block, north at Bridges Ave S for 1 block, and then west to Willis Street<\/p>\n

• Southbound traffic on Central Ave S will be detoured west at Willis St for 2 blocks, then south on 1 Ave S for 1 mile, east on S 259 St for 2 blocks, and then south on Central Ave S<\/p>\n

• Eastbound Traffic on Willis St will be re-routed to the south on 1 Ave S for 1 mile, east on S 259 St for 2 blocks, and then south on Central Ave S<\/p>\n

• Westbound traffic on Willis St may be reduced to one lane from Central Ave S to Railroad Ave S but traffic can get through the area as needed.<\/p>\n

Central<\/a> <\/a>Avenue <\/a>South at Willis Street was closed in both directions for a portion of Wednesday evening for a downed utility pole, according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n

Police posted the street closure on Twitter at about 5:07 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Wires reportedly were down on several parked vehicles and a couple of vehicles that were traveling down the street. Wires also were down on a nearby business. Nobody was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drivers can expect lane closures Thursday and Friday on Central Avenue South and Willis Street<\/a> due to due to power line repairs following Wednesday evening’s windstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30986"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}