Parking restrictions and traffic control measures will be implemented on Thursday and Friday to filming scenes for the movie “Joyride” in the French Quarter, including on Bourbon Street, according to production officials.
No parking signs will be posted on Thursday starting at 12 a.m. and until 12 p.m. in the upper 900 block of Bourbon Street.
Then starting on Friday at 12 a.m. and until 12 p.m., no parking signs will be posted in the 900 and 1000 blocks of Bourbon Street, the 700 and 800 blocks of Saint Philip Street and in the 1000 block of Dauphine Street.
Additionally, no parking signs will be posted from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday in the along the river side of the 900 and 1000 blocks of Bourbon Street.
On Friday from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., uniformed security officers will be conducting westbound intermittent traffic control at the intersection of St. Philip and Dauphine streets, and southbound intermittent traffic controls at the intersection of Bourbon and Dumaine streets, according to production officials.
Production officials said actual filming will occur on Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. They added that all driveways and handicap zones will be respected and kept clear during filming.
Anyone with large deliveries are scheduled during filming times is asked to contact assistant location managers Kathleen Butler, who can be reached at 985-373-9193 or by email at kathleenbutlerloc@gmail.com; and Owen Legendre, who can be reached at 727-459-4141 or by email at owen.legendre@disneympp.com.