EVENTS & TRAFFIC : Saturday March 16th through Friday March 22nd

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Saturday, March 16: The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held on Market Street. For more event details, visit http://www.uissf.org/.

Starting at 10 a.m. the parade units will gather along 2nd Street between Market and Brannan streets. At 11:30 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 along 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 Street and Van Ness Avenue will be closed to traffic beginning at 11 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 10:30 a.m. until the end of parade, Mission Street between Beale and 5th streets will be designated as transit-only street until Market Street re-opens.