DENVER—The busiest section of freeway in Colorado will be shut down the night Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech because it runs within a few hundred feet of the Denver Broncos football stadium where Obama will appear.
State highway officials said Friday the 5 1/2-mile stretch of Interstate 25 in downtown Denver normally carries up to 250,000 vehicles a day, making it the most heavily traveled road in the state.
It will close at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 and won’t reopen until the night’s events are over. Officials haven’t said what time that will be.
The closure runs from Interstate 70 on the north to 6th Avenue on the south. The closure plan was first reported in the Rocky Mountain News.
Obama’s speech will be on the last night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which starts Aug. 25.
The first three days of the convention will be at the Pepsi Center, which seats 21,000. The acceptance speech on the fourth and final night was moved to Invesco Field at Mile High stadium, which seats about 75,000.
