Salem Street Sweeping Begins Next Week, To Last Through April

SALEM, MA — Salem will begin its annual street sweeping next week on the city's entrance corridors, and it will continue for the following five weeks through the end of April.

Residential neighborhood street sweeping will run from April 1 through April 29.

"Spring street sweeping is an important step to prepare our neighborhood streets for the upcoming summer," Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo said. "Resident cooperation is vital to the success of this program. In order for the Department of Public Services to best sweep the streets, please remove your vehicles from the street during your designated sweep day."

Residential street sweeping will run from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sweeping at entrance corridors will begin at 5 a.m. each day.

Each neighborhood route will be posted with temporary "No Parking/Tow Zone" signs and parking will be prohibited between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Neighborhood streets are broken down into four zones. Sweep days are usually the next day after the regularly scheduled trash day.

Street sweeping schedules can be found online here.

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.

All existing parking regulations on entrance corridors must be adhered to or a vehicle will be ticketed and/or towed. This includes resident-only parking restrictions.

(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.)