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Philadelphia Veterans Parade Bus Detours & Road Closures, November 10

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Philadelphia’s Veterans Parade & Festival 2024 takes place this weekend on Sunday, November 10. The event is a time to thank and celebrate our veterans and includes a parade beginning at noon and a festival in Eakins Oval until 4 pm featuring many local veterans’ groups and businesses.

Getting to the Events

If you’re headed to the parade, SEPTA is a great way to ensure you arrive on time. The parade route has changed this year and will begin at Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 21st Street. You can utilize plan.septa.org for real-time trip planning to and from the parade site.

If you’ll be going directly to the festival, the Spring Garden St & Art Museum stop on SEPTA bus route 43 is the perfect choice – it’s in walking distance from Eakins Oval.

Road Closures

To facilitate the Veterans Parade, half a mile of the road beginning on 21st Street and extending toward the Art Museum will be blocked off to traffic, which will impact SEPTA’s bus service until 5 pm. The full list of affected routes is below; for specific details on the detours, please visit SEPTA’s Alerts and Detours page.

Bus Route Detours

5 am to 5 pm

  • 7
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 38
  • 44
  • 48
  • 49
  • 124/125

Convenient Ways to Pay

If using a SEPTA Key card, riders are encouraged to load funds on it before the event. For more information about SEPTA Key, visit www.septa.org.

SEPTA’s multi-rider feature allows up to five riders on one SEPTA Key card. Taps can be on a single bus/trolley validator or a combination of taps on different turnstiles at a station. Multi-rider is available on all modes including bus, trolley, Broad Street Line [B], Market-Frankford Line [L], Norristown High Speed Line [M] and Regional Rail. Learn how to activate and fare information.

Credit/debit cards, in physical form or through apps like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, are accepted on buses, trolleys, Market-Frankford Line [L], Broad Street Line [B] and the Norristown High Speed Line [M], at any turnstile or farebox with a simple tap on the validator. 

  • Express Mode: With Express Mode enabled for debit or credit cards, riders don’t need to wake or unlock their iPhone or Apple Watch or even open any apps to pay and ride on SEPTA Bus or Metro.  
  • Once a user has chosen which debit or credit card they’d like to use with Express Mode, they can simply tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to an enabled reader to ride.

SEPTA accepts cash for travel on bus, Metro and Regional Rail; exact fair is required for bus and Metro.

Customers at Metro stations may purchase a Quick Trip ticket from Fare Kiosks, for a single one-way ride on the Broad Street Line [B], Market-Frankford Line [L], Norristown High Speed Line [M] and select Trolley lines. Transit Quick Trips are not valid for bus rides. SEPTA recommends that customers simply use a contactless bankcard to travel, eliminating the need for a Quick Trip ticket and adding additional travel privileges. 

Quick Trips are available from station Fare Kiosks and are valid on the day purchased until 2 am the following day. Customers attending events in the Sports Complex area are encouraged to purchase a Quick Trip for their return trip prior to the event. Free transfers are not available with Quick Trip.

SEPTA Key Tix provides an easy payment solution for occasional riders to enjoy the same benefits as cardholders, including one free transfer. Allows people traveling together the ability to “scan once” by activating up to five one-way tickets using a single barcode. Riders can use SEPTA Key Tix on buses and Metro only. 

PATCO riders traveling to Philadelphia from New Jersey can use their PATCO Freedom Share card for travel on SEPTA Metro and buses for $2 per trip. Card must be purchased from PATCO and preloaded with funds in advance.  

To get the latest service news, call Customer Service at 215-580-7800 or follow SEPTA @SEPTA. Customer Service is open Monday – Friday, 7 am – 7 pm and Saturday – Sunday, 8 am – 5 pm.