City of Salem Releases Fall Neighborhood Street Sweeping Schedule

City of Salem Releases Fall Neighborhood Street Sweeping Schedule

SALEM, MA – Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll today announced that fall street sweeping will begin in Salem’s neighborhoods on Monday, September 14 and run through October 9.

“Recently, the city has purchased a new sweeper and will dedicate a Department of Public Services employee to complete sweeping in all of our neighborhoods over the next month,” said Mayor Driscoll.

New this year, sweeping zones have been expanded to four zones, which reconfigured the routes to smaller areas so that the single sweeper will be able to complete its daily sweeping assignments. Residential neighborhood street sweeping will continue to take place on both sides of the street on the same day. New this year, sweeping will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

As we have done in the past, each neighborhood route will be posted with temporary ‘No Parking/Tow Zone’ signs and parking will be prohibited between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Neighborhood streets are broken down into four zones. Sweep days are usually the next day after the regularly scheduled trash day. As in the past, to find a specific street sweeping date, locate what zone your street is in on the 2015 Fall Residential Street Sweeping Schedule and match it with the calendar. Monday sweep schedules are for the preceding Friday's trash day. Street sweeping schedules can be found on-line at www.salem.com, at the DPS office on 5 Jefferson Avenue, City Hall, and the Salem Public Library.

Public Services Director John Tomasz stated, “Resident cooperation is vital to the success of this program. In order for the sweeper to do the best job possible, please remove your cars from the street during your designated sweep day.”

Residents will be able to use entrance corridor streets as alternative parking areas on the day of their neighborhood sweep. Entrance corridor streets are Boston St., Bridge St., Essex St. (from Boston St. to North/Summer St.), Lafayette St. (from Derby St. to Marblehead line), Loring Ave., and North St. Once a neighborhood street is swept, residents will be able to move their vehicles back onto their street. Please remember if you choose to move your vehicle to an entrance corridor street that you must adhere to all current parking restrictions on these entrance corridors. All existing parking regulations on entrance corridors must be adhered to or your vehicle will be ticketed and/or towed. This includes resident-only parking restrictions; in order to park on a street signed as resident-only, you must have the corresponding resident parking sticker on your vehicle.

Certain weather conditions prohibit the use of the street sweepers: during moderate to heavy rainfall and extreme cold temperatures sweepers will not be able to operate. Weather cancellations will be posted on www.salem.com.