Salem Street Sweeping Begins After Halloween

SALEM, MA — Just when Salem residents thought it was safe to park their cars back on the street it's the street-sweeping season in the Witch City.

The city will begin street sweeping efforts the day after the Halloween festivities conclude in an effort to clean up from the spooky season and clear leaves from city roads.

Street sweeping is scheduled to run through Dec. 2.

"We usually do our fall street sweeping in September, but this year we are beginning in November to try to clean our curb lines of fallen leaves," Salem Department of Public Services Director David Knowlton said.

Residents are cautioned to keep an eye out for when sweeping will be coming to a street near them in order to avoid parking fines and towing.

Sweeping will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each neighborhood route will be posted with temporary "No Parking/Tow Zone" signs with parking prohibited.

Sweep days will take place in the four city zones the next day after a regularly scheduled trash day. Those with Friday trash pickup will have street sweeping on Mondays.

A full list of street-sweeping zones can be found here. There will be no sweeping on Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving (Nov. 24) or the day after Thanksgiving.

Residents are encouraged to use corridor streets as alternative parking on the day of their sweep. Those streets include Boston Street, Bridge Street, Essex Street (from Boston Street to North/Summer Street), Lafayette Street (from Derby Street to the Marblehead line), Loring Avenue and North Street.

Some corridor streets include meter restrictions and resident-only sections.

Once a neighborhood street is swept, residents are asked to move their cars back to their own street.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)