Parramatta Lanes returns from Wednesday 22 to Saturday 25 October 2025, bringing thousands of visitors to the CBD for four nights of food, music, and culture. To help you navigate the city during this major event, here’s everything you need to know about traffic, transport, and parking impacts.
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Select roads will be closed through the CBD and there will be parking restrictions on Macquarie, George, and Phillip Streets plus Eat Street Car Park will have restricted parking.
There will be no service at the Church Street stop from 5pm until one hour after the event ends. Buses will replace the light rail services between Parramatta Square and Westmead bypassing the Church Street stop.
Help your customers stay informed and make the most of Parramatta Lanes. Access our free promotional toolkit, including social media assets, flyers and recording of Parramatta Lanes Business Forum.
Local business opportunities: Expression of interest
We are inviting our local small and medium business community to submit their expression of interest to be a part of the action at Parramatta Lanes 2025. Any participating businesses will receive free marketing promotional support driving attendees to visit your business as part of our wide-reaching marketing campaign for Parramatta Lanes.
Create a new Parramatta Lanes themed menu item, special offer or promotion that will drive our visitors to experience as part of the Parramatta Lanes event.
Will your business be open after 10pm during Parramatta Lanes (22-25 Oct) or do you have an existing special offer/promotion that our event attendees might enjoy? Tell us and we’d love to share this with our audiences.
Let us know you’d like to be involved by filling out this form.
Parramatta Up Late
Parramatta Lanes has been granted Special Event Extended Trading status by Liquor & Gaming NSW. This means during the Parramatta Lanes event all eligible licensed venues within the Parramatta LGA are permitted to extend their trading from 10pm to 2am, Wednesday 22 - Sunday 26 October.
As part of our Parramatta Up Late offering, we are inviting visitors to stay and explore our city’s vibrant, diverse and safe night-time offering both during and after Parramatta Lanes. If your business is usually open after 10pm between Wednesday and Saturday or considering taking advantage of Liquor & Gaming's Special Event Extended Trading during the event, we’d love to hear from you as part of our Parramatta Lanes engagement EOI.
Purple Flag accreditation
Parramatta has achieved Purple Flag accreditation which means that our city’s CBD meets international standards of excellence in vibrancy, diversity and safety at night. Our event programming for Parramatta Lanes runs between 5-10pm on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 October and 5-10.30pm on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October.
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Thanks to our partners
Powerhouse Lane is an initiative of Lanes Collective and proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Parramatta Council and Powerhouse.
Official Spritz Partner of Parramatta Lanes.
Official hotel partner of Parramatta Lanes.
Official Safety Partner of Parramatta Lanes.
