{"id":806278,"date":"2026-10-18T05:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806278\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T05:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:36:20","slug":"liverpools-river-of-light-festival-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806278\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s River of Light festival road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dale Street\/Water Street, between Exchange Street East and Lower Castle Street, will be closed from 08:00 BST on 18 October until 20:00 on 20 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The same section of road will close again to facilitate the safe removal of artworks from 08:00 GMT on 2 November until 20:00 on 3 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the event itself, Dale Street will be closed to general traffic from Byrom Street to Water Street where it meets The Strand, along with the side streets on to Water Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These closures will be in place from 17:00 to 21:00 each evening from Friday to 1 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The side streets include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lower Castle St<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fenwick St<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rumford St<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Covent Garden<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drury Lane<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tower Gardens<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers are advised to allow extra time for their journeys and use alternative routes where possible. Signed diversions will be in place during all closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj040pyv36kwo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all you need to know about Merseyrail changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Street\/Water Street, between Exchange Street East and Lower Castle Street, will be closed from 08:00 BST on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}