SALEM – Mayor Dominick Pangallo today announced that Spring street sweeping begins next week along the City’s entrance corridors. Street sweeping in Salem’s neighborhoods will run throughout the month of April – beginning April 1st through April 29th.
“Spring street sweeping is an important step to prepare our neighborhood streets for the upcoming Summer,” said Mayor Pangallo, “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.”
Neighborhood street sweeping covers four zones. Residential neighborhood street sweeping will continue to take place on both sides of the street on the same day. Sweeping will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Entrance corridors will be swept over the course of two days, one side of the street per day. No parking/tow zones in entrance corridors will be in effect beginning at 5:00am on those days.)
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, residents should locate the zone their street is in on the 2024 Spring 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.salemma.gov, at the DPS office on 5 Jefferson Avenue, City Hall, and the Salem Public Library.
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 cancelations will be posted on www.salemma.gov. (More Details Below, keeping going down…!)
