website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nParade route <\/p>\n
\nThe parade will begin at 16th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard at 11:15 a.m. and loop around the Northeast corner of City Hall before making its way down Market Street. It is scheduled to end around 3 p.m. on Market Street between 6th and 5th streets, where performances and official judging will take place.\n<\/p>\n
\nOver a dozen awards will be handed out at the parade\u2019s finish line to groups who best exemplify the spirit of the parade, as well as the top floats and the dance groups.\n<\/p>\n
\nBefore the parade, a commemorative mass will be held at 9 a.m. at Saint Patrick Church at 20th and Locust streets.\n<\/p>\n
Road closures<\/p>\n
\nParade participants can start lining up\u00a0along JFK Boulevard between 20th and 16th streets\u00a0at 9 a.m., with officials saying anyone who’s in the parade and driving needs to enter at Schuylkill Avenue and JFK Boulevard around\u00a030th St. Station to undergo a security check.<\/p>\n
\nMarket Street will be closed between 5th and 6th streets from 5:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.\n<\/p>\n
\nFrom 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., JFK Boulevard will be closed between 15th and 20th streets. Closures will also be in place on 15th, 16th, 27th, 18th, 19th and 20th streets between March and Arch streets.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe following roads will be closed from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Traffic conditions may warrant an earlier closure, the city said.\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 JFK Boulevard between 15th and Juniper streets
\u2022 Juniper Street between JFK Boulevard and Market Street
\u2022 Market Street between Juniper and 2nd streets
\u2022 All cross streets on Market Street from 13th to 5th streets between Chestnut and Arch streets<\/p>\n
Parking restrictions <\/p>\n
\nTemporary no parking zones will be posted between the 1400-2000 blocks of JFK Boulevard from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.\n<\/p>\n
\nParking restrictions will also be in place on the following streets from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 5th Street between Chestnut and Market streets
\u2022 6th Street between Chestnut and Race streets
\u2022 Race Street between 5th and 6th streets
\u2022 Market Street from Juniper to 2nd streets<\/p>\n
Public transit <\/p>\n
The 12 SEPTA bus routes that run through Center City and the Old City area will be detoured on Sunday from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Passengers can check the status of the following affected routes on the SEPTA website and mobile app:<\/p>\n
\u2022 17, 27, 31, 32, 33, 38, 44, 47, 48, 61, 124 and 125\n<\/p>\n
How to watch <\/p>\n
\nCBS3 Philadelphia\u2019s affiliate Philly 57 will broadcast the parade live from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. CBS3 will air a re-run of the parade on Tuesday, March 17, from 9 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s 255th St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade will make its way through Old City on Sunday, March 15, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1070,13272,18920,69,71,70,4081,2618,59240],"class_list":["post-133697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-holiday","tag-old-city","tag-parades","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-road-closures","tag-septa","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}