Mardi Gras 2024
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Endymion Parade
Saturday, March 1st Starts at 4:00 pm.
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Streetcar Detours
| Travel toward downtown will end at Valance & St Charles and return uptown from there. Shuttle will transport riders the rest of the way downtown. |
| Will not operate. |
| Starting Thursday, February 27, all Canal streetcar services will be replaced with buses. |
| Service will end completely by noon on Saturday. |
| Regular streetcar service will return Sunday, March 2. |
| Streetcar will service from French Market to Canal St Ferry Terminal beginning at 5am until parade clears from Canal St zone. |
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Bus Detours
| Regular route until 3pm. |
| After 3, route will end downtown at Lasalle & Tulane Ave Bus will leave downtown taking Gravier to N Claiborne to regular route. |
| Regular route until 3pm. |
| After 3, the route to downtown will end at Iberville. |
| The bus will leave downtown taking a U-turn to N Rampart to the regular route. |
| Early parade: No service from Baronne to Tchoupitoulas. |
| Evening parade: Shuttle service will operate from Napoleon & Tchoupitoulas to Banks & S Broad. Bus service on the downtown side of Canal will operate from Bienville St and N Broad until the parade clears Broad Ave & Canal. |
| Will end at Camp and Poydras. |
| There will be no service from Delgado Community College to the Cemeteries Transit Center. The bus will end at the Cemeteries Transit Center. |
| Regular route until 3pm. |
| Buses will service to Iberville St at N Rampart. |
| No service from Iberville to Main Library Hub. |
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Regular route until 3pm. |
| From 3 pm onward, the route will end downtown at Basin and Iberville and begin an outbound trip from there. |
| Regular service to 3pm. |
| Buses from Lower 9th Ward will end at N Galvez St and Bienville St. Buses will travel outbound from Bienville St to Esplanade. |
| Regular service to 3pm. |
| Beginning at 3 pm, traveling to downtown, buses will take I-10 to Claiborne Ave exit, right on Tulane Ave to Main Library. |
| Outbound bus will reverse inbound route. |
| Regular service to 3pm. |
| Beginning at 3 pm, traveling to downtown, buses will take I-10 to Claiborne Ave exit, right on Tulane Ave to Main Library. |
| Outbound bus will reverse inbound route. |
| Route will start and end at Union Passenger Terminal (UPT) on Loyola. |
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Bus Split Detours
Routes 31 and 32 will be divided into two sections by parades – an Uptown and Downtown section. Each section will run independently with the below detours
| Downtown: Buses will service from Gentilly Walmart to Beauregard Circle. |
| Uptown: Buses stop at Carrollton and Banks. |
Buses on these lines expected to use regular routes until 3 pm, ahead of parade start.
Routes 51, 52, 57 and 91 will be divided into two sections by parades – an Uptown and Downtown section. Each section will run independently with the below detours:
| Downtown: Buses will service to Basin at Iberville. |
| Uptown: Buses will stop at Main Library (Loyola & Common). They will not service other stops in the CBD. |
Buses on these lines expected to use regular routes until 3 pm, ahead of parade start.
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