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Section of Market Street in Wilmington to close this weekend

The lane will be closed to allow workers to install a right turn lane into Hanover Pines Nature Park.
Petr Kratochvil
Crews from CSX Transportation will be repairing the railroad crossing.

Railroad repairs will close down a section of Market Street from Saturday, April 29 at 6 a.m. to Tuesday, May 2 by 5 p.m.

Crews with CSX Transportation will be working on the railroad crossing that intersects with Market Street near Darlington Avenue. (For Wilmingtonians, that’s right near Goody Goody Omelet House.)

According to the City of Wilmington, those traveling from downtown on Market Street can use the following four detours:

  1. Right on 16th Street southbound > Left on Dawson Street eastbound > Left on College Road northbound > Market Street.
  2. Left on 17th Street northbound > Right on Princess Place Drive eastbound > Left on 23rd Street northbound > Right on Martin Luther King, Jr Parkway eastbound > Right on Kerr Avenue southbound > Market St.
  3. Left on 23rd Street northbound > Right on Martin Luther King, Jr Parkway eastbound > Right on Kerr Avenue southbound > Market Street.
  4. Right on Covil Avenue southbound > Left on Randall Parkway eastbound > Left on Kerr Avenue northbound > Market Street. 

For those traveling toward downtown, there are four detours:

  1. Right on Martin Luther King, Jr Parkway westbound > Right on 23rd Street southbound > Market Street.
  2. Left on College Road southbound > Right on Oleander Drive westbound > Right on 17th Street northbound > Market Street.
  3. Right on Kerr Avenue northbound > Left on Martin Luther King, Jr Parkway westbound > Right on 23rd Street southbound > Market Street.
  4. Right on Princess Place Drive > Left on 23rd Street southbound or Left on 16th Street southbound > Market Street
Grace is a multimedia journalist recently graduated from American University. She's attracted to issues of inequity and her reporting has spanned racial disparities in healthcare, immigration detention and college culture. In the past, she's investigated ICE detainee deaths at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, worked on an award-winning investigative podcast, and produced student-led video stories.