{"id":492732,"date":"2026-02-22T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492732\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:08:08","slug":"expect-delays-during-vancouvers-lunar-new-year-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492732\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect delays during Vancouver&#8217;s Lunar New Year parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communities across Vancouver are welcoming the Lunar New Year with celebrations, including the 52nd Annual Chinatown Spring Festival Parade Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should expect heavy delays through downtown as several road closures will be in place on sections of the following streets:<\/p>\n<p>Main Street<br \/>Pender Street (East and West)<br \/>Beatty Street<br \/>Abbott Street<br \/>Taylor Street<br \/>Shanghai Alley<br \/>Columbia Street<br \/>Quebec Street<br \/>Carrall Street<br \/>Keefer Street<br \/>Keefer Place<br \/>Gore Avenue<br \/>East Georgia Street<\/p>\n<p>Road closures run from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"4395499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lunar-New-Year-parade-2026-1024x571.png\" alt=\"Communities across Vancouver are gearing up to welcome the Lunar New Year with celebrations, including the 52nd Annual Chinatown Spring Festival Parade Sunday.\" class=\"wp-image-4395499\"  \/>Communities across Vancouver are gearing up to welcome the Lunar New Year with celebrations, including the 52nd Annual Chinatown Spring Festival Parade Sunday. (CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>The parade starts at 11 a.m. and will last approximately three hours. It starts at the Millennium Gate at West Pender and Taylor streets, will head along East Pender and Gore Street, and will conclude at the corner of Keefer and Carrall streets.<\/p>\n<p>Listen live to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/audio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1130 NewsRadio Vancouver<\/a>\u00a0every 10 minutes on the ones for traffic updates. You can also follow us on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsRadioVAN\" rel=\"nofollow\">@NewsRadioVAN<\/a>\u00a0and subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic Alerts as they happen<\/a>,\u00a0sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities across Vancouver are welcoming the Lunar New Year with celebrations, including the 52nd Annual Chinatown Spring Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-492732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}