Grant Street will be closed to traffic from about 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. today as the bodies of the three city police officers killed on Saturday are taken to the City-County Building for the public to pay its respects.

Officers Eric G. Kelly, Stephen J. Mayhle and Paul J. Sciullo II will lie in repose from 4 p.m. today until 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard yesterday said the public will be able to slowly proceed through the viewing today and tomorrow without going through the usual security check-point gate at the City-County Building.

Other traffic restrictions include Grant Street exits from the Parkway East and West, which will be closed from 2 until 3:30 p.m today. At the same time, there will be a closure of Grant Street northbound at the Boulevard of the Allies through Fourth Avenue and southbound from Forbes Avenue to Fourth Avenue.

For the next 24 hours, Grant Street will be open with one lane in each direction. No parking will be allowed on the curb lanes of Grant Street from the Boulevard of the Allies to Liberty Avenue. This will permit marked police cars to park while police officers pay their respects.

During that time there will be no parking on the Boulevard of the Allies from Grant Street to Commonwealth Place; on Second Avenue from Ross Street to the 10th Street Bridge; and on Ross Street from Second Avenue to Sixth Avenue.

The bodies of the three officers will leave the City-County Building at noon tomorrow in a funeral procession that will end at the University of Pittsburgh's Petersen Events Center, where a public memorial service will be held at 1 p.m.

Grant Street will be closed as the three hearses leave the City-County Building and head to the Port Authority's East Busway at Liberty Avenue. The procession will exit the busway at Neville Street in Oakland and proceed along Neville to Fifth Avenue.

The procession will make a right on Fifth Avenue and continue until DeSoto Street, where it will make another right turn. There, the procession will make a left onto Terrace Street and then right onto Sutherland Drive, arriving at the Petersen Events Center.

Ms. Richard said the procession will most likely be miles long, with anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 police officers from cities across the United States and Canada in attendance.

Once the funeral procession arrives at the Petersen Events Center, doors will be open to the public.

"It will be open seating to a degree," Ms. Richard said. "The families, police and other officials will have priority seating."

Both Ms. Richard and Joanna Doven, spokeswoman to Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, yesterday couldn't specify any details about the funeral service or how long it is expected to last.

A number of city and county offices in the City-County Building will be closed starting at noon today and many of them will not reopen until Monday, including the county's Department of Court Records Civil/Family Division, Wills/Orphans' Court Division, Marriage License Office and the Passport Office.

Filings of inheritance tax returns will not be accepted from 2 p.m. tomorrow until Monday. Mortgage foreclosure hearings with Common Pleas Judge Michael E. McCarthy are canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas, located in the City-County Building, will also close at noon today and reopen Monday.

The Department of Court Records Criminal Division, in the County Courthouse, will operate during normal business hours today and tomorrow, but will be closed Friday.

All other executive branch offices in the County Courthouse and County Office Building will be open during normal business hours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The Port Authority plans to alter its bus routes into Downtown and Oakland later today and tomorrow because of officers' funeral arrangements. For more information, call customer service line at 412-442-2000 or the TTY number, 412-231-7007.