Hi Mooviters,
🍀Are you ready to paint the town green for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival & Parade?🍀
This Saturday is the annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival & Parade. Showcasing over 100 floats, the parade kicks off at 11:30 am on 2nd Street and proceeds along Market Street to Civic Plaza.
Streets on and around the festival and parade will be closed throughout the day. Affected Muni routes will be rerouted. Details below.
Hop on the Muni’s Market Street Subway or take BART to the Civic Center to snag a great spot to watch the parade.
St. Patrick’s Day Festival
Saturday, March 16: The annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival will return to Civic Center Plaza. Event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.Â
To facilitate the event, the following street closures will be required:
- From 3 a.m. to midnight, Saturday:
- Grove Street between Polk and Larkin streets
- From 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday
- 2nd Street between Market and Harrison streets
- Market Street between Sansome and 8th streets
- McAllister Street between Market Street and Van Ness Avenue
- Polk Street between McAllister and Grove streets
- Grove Street between Larkin Street and Van Ness Avenue
The following Muni lines and routes will be affected by the parade from 9 a.m to approximately 3:30 p.m.: F Market & Wharves; 2 Sutter; 5 Fulton; 6 Haight/Parnassus; 7 Haight/Noriega; 8 Bayshore; 9 San Bruno; 15 Bayview-Hunter’s Point; 19 Polk; 21 Hayes; 27 Bryant; 30 Stockton; 31 Balboa; 38 Geary; 38R Geary Rapid; and 45 Union/Stockton.Â
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Saturday, March 16: The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held on Market Street.Â
Starting at 9 a.m. the parade units will gather along 2nd Street between Market and Harrison streets. At 11 a.m. the parade will move west along Market Street to McAllister Street and proceed west to Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place and south to Grove Street where the parade will disband.
To ensure traffic flows on Mission, Howard, Folsom, Harrison, Bryant and Brannan streets, cross traffic will be allowed across the staging area of 2nd Street until the parade begins. Traffic along these streets will resume as soon as the parade units pass.
Market Street between 1st and 7th streets will be closed to traffic beginning at 10:30 a.m. There will be no cross traffic along Market Street during the parade which should end by 4 p.m. Streets will reopen as the marchers pass and the streets are cleaned. The reviewing stand will be on Carlton B. Goodlett Place.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. until the end of parade, Mission Street between 1st and 7th streets will be designated as transit-only street until Market Street re-opens.
The following Muni lines and routes will be affected by the parade as early as 9 a.m.: F Market & Wharves; 2 Sutter; 5 Fulton; 6 Haight/Parnassus; 7 Haight/Noriega; 8 Bayshore; 9 San Bruno; 15 Bayview-Hunter’s Point; 19 Polk; 21 Hayes; 27 Bryant; 30 Stockton; 31 Balboa; 38 Geary; 38R Geary Rapid; and 45 Union/Stockton.