The South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade is an annual tradition beloved by many residents. The snow accumulation this winter, though, more than 100 inches, threatened to reschedule, if not cancel, the jubilation all together.

Mayor Marty Walsh met with parade organizers on Wednesday night to discuss solutions to the snowy problem – how the city can host a large scale, high profile parade on streets narrowed significant due to mountainous snowbanks.

The answer: shorten it.

“I am pleased all parties involved were able to come to agreement that due to the unprecedented amount of snow Boston has received over a 30 day period, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade route will start at Broadway Station and end at Farragut Road to ensure the safety of the participants and spectators,” said Mayor Walsh in a statement. “This weekend, organizers of the parade will be coordinating a volunteer effort, with the assistance of the City, to clear the remaining snow on the modified route.”

Typically, as shown on the map below, the procession makes its way eastward down West Broadway and onto East Broadway, then turns right P Street and another right on E 4th Street to make its way back westward.

Instead of hanging that P Street right, though, the parade will continue on for another block and come to an end at Farragut Road.

On Friday, the mayor stated on Boston Public Radio “today, I don’t see how it goes through the neighborhoods” but it seems now the rate of melting snow and community groups are all working in his favor.

The streets of South Boston were so bad, in fact, that the mayor had to institute an emergency street reconfiguration which limited many two-way streets to one-way traffic only. The bottlenecked congestion and the perpendicular streets with their numbered names made it easier to accomplish this in Southie than other neighborhoods.