When Will Salem Sweep My Street?

From the City of Salem: Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll has announced that spring street sweeping will begin on Salem’s entrance corridors on Tuesday, April 16, through April 25 and continue into residential neighborhoods beginning on Monday, April 29, and running through May 24.

“It’s definitely a sign of spring when we see our street sweepers on the roadways,” said Mayor Driscoll. “I am also pleased to announce that this year we have expanded our sweeping schedules in the downtown, on our entrance corridors and in the Point neighborhood.”

Entrance corridor sweeping will take place between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. Each corridor will be swept over a period of two consecutive days which will alternate between the odd and even side of the streets. City workers will be utilizing blowers to clear corridor sidewalks of debris prior to the street sweeping.

In addition to the spring and fall sweeps, the city will expand its entrance corridor sweep schedule by adding sweeps in June, July, and August. You can find 2019 expanded entrance corridor sweeping schedule on Public Works home page on www.salem.com. Each corridor will be posted with temporary ‘No Parking/Tow Zone’ signs and parking will be prohibited between the hours of 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.

Also new this year, we have scheduled additional sweeping in the downtown. The Salem Department of Public Services will be blowing and sweeping streets and sidewalks every third Wednesday from April through September. Blowing will begin at 9 p.m. followed by street sweeping at 11 p.m. to approximately 3 a.m.

The downtown area will be posted with No Parking Tow Zones signs, so please remove your vehicles from the affected downtown streets so they will not be towed. Residents on the affected streets may park free of charge at the Museum Place Mall Garage from 8 p.m. Wednesday evening to 8 a.m. Thursday morning, with proof of residency.

Residential neighborhood street sweeping will continue to take place on both sides of the street on the same day. Sweeping will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 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 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Neighborhood streets are broken down into four zones. Sweep days are 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 2019 Spring 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 David Knowlton stated, “Resident cooperation is vital to the success of this program. You must remove your cars from the street on your designated sweeping day. I encourage everyone to get the word out to their neighbors to remind them when the street sweeper is coming, so they remember to move their cars. The fewer cars on the street, the better we can clean.” Knowlton continued, “Our goal is to clean the streets not to tow cars, so please park accordingly during scheduled street sweeping days.”

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.

For a complete list of parking alternatives go to the spring sweeping schedule on the Public Works page on www.salem.com. Please remember if you choose to move your vehicle to an entrance corridor street that you must adhere to all current parking restrictions and metered rates on these entrance corridors, including resident only restrictions.

There will also be additional sweeping scheduled in the Point Neighborhood. Sweeping will take place on May 6, June 10, July 15, August 12 and September 16. Cars must be removed from both sides of the street on these days. No Parking/Tow Zone signs will be posted and parking will be prohibited from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents on the affected streets may park in the South Harbor Parking Garage, free of charge between the hours of 8:00 p.m. Sunday to 8 p.m. Monday, with proof of residency.

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.

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