The City of Somerville’s annual Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration will take place tonight  at Trum Field. respectively. Drawing several thousand spectators each year, the Fireworks Celebration will include live entertainment by the Somerville Sunsetters, the Somerville Moonlighters, Bova Productions, the USO Metropolitan New York Performers and local disco-funk band Booty Vortex, culminating with a 30-minute fireworks display launched from Trum Field. Entertainment begins at 5:45 p.m.

 

 To ensure public safety and pedestrian access to event, several road closures and bus detours will be in place. Traffic alterations will be as follows.

Thursday, June 27 (rain date Friday, June 28):

• Broadway  from Ball Square to Magoun Square: No parking on either side from noon to midnight.  Street closed from 5 p.m. to midnight.
• Cedar Street from Morrison Avenue to the Bridge: No parking on either side from 8 a.m. to midnight. Traffic restricted to residents only from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (from Morrison Ave. only). No access to street after 6 p.m.
• Cedar     Street from the Bridge to Broadway: No parking on either side from 8 a.m. to midnight. Street closed from 4 p.m. to midnight. Traffic restricted to residents only from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (from Morrison Ave. only). No access to street after 6 p.m.
• Franey Road: No Parking on either side from 4 p.m. to midnight.  Street closed from 4 p.m. to midnight. Restricted area authorized personnel only.
• Charles E. Ryan Road: No parking on street on either side from 8 a.m. to midnight. Access restricted to residents from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. No access to street from 6 p.m. to midnight.

Bus Schedule – Buses 80 & 89 will be rerouted from 5 p.m. to midnight.

• Bus 80 from Lechmere will maintain regular route to Magoun Square. It will pass through Magoun Square and take a left onto Harvard Street to Warner Street until the Powderhouse Rotary where it will connect back to College     Avenue and the regular route.
• Bus 80 from Arlington Center will maintain regular route to Powderhouse Square rotary, take a right onto Harvard Street, right onto Main St., cross Magoun Square and return to regular route.
• Bus 89 from Sullivan Square will maintain regular route to Winter Hill at Broadway and Main St. right onto Main St., Left onto Harvard Street to Warner Street, to the Powderhouse Rotary and return to the regular route.
• Bus 89 from Clarendon Hill will maintain regular route to Powderhouse Rotary, around to Warner St., to Harvard St., right on Main St., left Broadway at Winter Hill to regular route.