Ultra Music Festival prep: Police officers to close Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami

MIAMI – Miami is making ready to welcome about 160,000 digital dance music followers from world wide in simply two days.

Law enforcement officials will shut Biscayne Boulevard within the Downtown Miami space at 9 p.m., Thursday. They may reroute the southbound site visitors at Northeast Sixth Avenue and the northbound site visitors at Southeast First Avenue.

The three-day competition begins at 4 p.m., on Friday, at Bayfront Park, the place EDM DJs will carry out concurrently on seven glowing out of doors levels across the 32-acre public house overlooking Biscayne Bay.

The competition — with a lineup of headliners that features Swedish Home Mafia, Afrojack, Alesso, Carl Cox, David Guetta, Marshmello, and Tiësto — is about to shut at midnight, Friday; reopen from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m., Saturday; and once more from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m., on Sunday.

Law enforcement officials requested drivers to count on heavy site visitors in the course of the competition alongside Northeast Second Avenue and North Miami Avenue.

Law enforcement officials and Hearth Rescue personnel are additionally making ready to cope with incidents associated to drug use and trafficking, dehydration, and theft. Final 12 months, thieves’ most typical goal was iPhones.

Among the competition’s highlights

British ladies

M.I.A.

Becky Hill

Dutch DJs

Armin van Buuren

Hardwell

Martin Garrix

American and Canadians

Gryffin

Kx5 (Kaskade and deadmau5)