ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The City of Allentown is advising residents and visitors to prepare for traffic and parking impacts due to the scheduled visit from Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The event will be hosted at the PPL Center on Tuesday, October 29 and is set to start at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The city has announced street closures in the downtown area: will be closed starting at 5 p.m. on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the street closure will include:<\/p>\n
7th Street from Linden to Walnut\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton Street from 6th to 8th Street<\/p>\n
7th Street from Turner to Walnut Street<\/p>\n
8th Street from Turner to Walnut<\/p>\n
Officials say parking access will be provided to residents within the closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No parking will be available on Linden Street between American Parkway and 9th Street, with additional restrictions in surrounding areas of the PPL Center, according to the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Allentown Police Department, in coordination with state and federal law enforcement partners, will have an increased presence to ensure the safety and security of the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials say that large crowds, foot traffic, and heightened media presence will be expected in the vicinity of the PPL Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The City of Allentown is advising residents and visitors to prepare for traffic and parking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2602,2970,3157,34,66062,553,66063,915,28,9914,558,559,874,15115],"class_list":["post-144631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police-department","tag-buildings-and-architecture-of-allentown","tag-center-city-allentown","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-law-enforcement-partners","tag-hamilton-street","tag-media-presence","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-ppl","tag-ppl-center","tag-ppl-corporation","tag-president","tag-walnut-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}