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City of Salem Releases Spring Street Sweeping Schedule
SALEM – Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll today announced that spring street sweeping will begin on Salem’s entrance corridors on Tuesday, March 24 through April 2 and continue into residential neighborhoods beginning on Monday, April 6 and running through May 1.
This year, as a result of above-average temperatures, the City is expanding the sweeping schedule, which will result in entrance corridors being swept six times from March through October. Each entrance corridor will be swept over a period of two consecutive days which will alternate between the odd and even side of the streets. Each corridor will be posted with temporary ‘No Parking/Tow Zone’ signs and parking will be prohibited between the hours of 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. City workers will be utilizing blowers to clear corridor sidewalks of debris prior to the first entrance corridor sweep. You can find the 2020 expanded entrance corridor sweeping schedule at www.salem.com/streetsweeping.
The Salem Department of Public Services will be blowing and sweeping streets and sidewalks in the downtown every third Wednesday from April through September. Blowing will begin at 9:00 p.m. followed by street sweeping at 11:00 p.m. to approximately 3:00 a.m. The downtown area will be posted with ‘No Parking Tow Zone’ signs, so please remove 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 8:00 p.m. Wednesday evening to 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning, with proof of residency.
Residential neighborhood street sweeping will be done this Spring form April 2 to May 1 and in the Fall from August 31 to September 25. Neighborhood sweeping will continue to take place on both sides of the street on the same day. 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 the next day after the regularly scheduled trash day. To find a specific street sweeping date, locate what zone your street is in on the 2020 Spring and Fall 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 at www.salem.com/streetsweeping, at the DPS office on 5 Jefferson Avenue, City Hall, and the Salem Public Library. There is also a searchable map online at www.salem.com/streetsweeping.
Public Services Director David Knowlton stated, “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.” Mr. 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 www.salem.com/streetsweeping. 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 parking restrictions.
There will also be additional sweeping scheduled in the Point Neighborhood. Sweeping will take place on April 13 & 27, May 11 & 25, June 8 & 22, July 13 & 27, August 10 & 24 and September 7 & 28. 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 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 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 8:00 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.
Manchester-by-the-Sea Police Department Encourages Residents to Enroll in CodeRED Emergency Alert System
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Police Chief Todd J. Fitzgerald would like to announce that the Town of Manchester-by-the-Sea has added the “text to enroll” program to the OnSolve (CodeRED), the Town’s Emergency Communication System.
All residents and businesses are invited to register for the CodeRED notification system to receive alerts and updates during emergency events.
Sign up is available either online or on a mobile device, allowing users to receive notifications about missing children or persons, criminal activity, fires, drinking water contamination, utility outages, traffic conditions, various threats to people or the environment, and other incidents as deemed necessary by town public safety officials.
“We encourage all residents in town to take advantage of the CodeRED notification system,” Chief Fitzgerald said. “This easy-to-use system will allow residents to receive important alerts directly on their mobile devices, which will allow us to reach a significant percentage of the population in an instant in the case of an emergency.”
To enroll online, visit the Manchester-by-the-Sea-specific CodeRED webpage here.
To enroll on a mobile device, text MBTS to 99411 to receive a direct link to the enrollment form.
To create an account, users will be asked to either log-in via Google, Facebook or Twitter, or create a separate account with a unique username and password. On the next page users will be asked to enter their name, address, phone number, mobile provider, email address and which types of alerts they would like to receive (emergency or emergency/general).
After agreeing to terms and conditions and verifying contact information, users will be successfully enrolled in the program.
