November 27, 2007
End of Street Cleaning This Friday
The big day you've been waiting for with the excitement of a child all year is almost here -- the day that Santa Claus the Department of Public Works suspends residential mechanical street cleaning for the winter.
Residents will be able to park freely without fear of being ticketed for being on the wrong side of the road after this Friday, Nov. 30, when “No parking/street cleaning” restrictions will be lifted.
A date has not yet been set when street sweeping will resume in the spring. This year the parking restrictions went back into effect on March 26.
Photo courtesy DPW
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Maybe with good reason they made this decision (i can think of others like cost to taxpayers for the value). But to suspend this operation in the middle of FALL seems a little too early. Our avenues still have tons of leaves that will simply wash into our storm sewars, stay there and clog those drains. Then affecting the snow/ice melt backups around town.
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There are still leaves on the trees which will fall and clog the storm sewers, but DC Government needs the extra time to put parking-ticket cameras on all the street sweepers.
Wait...DPW has been doing street cleaning? Not in my part of the ghetto they haven't. Nor did they come suck up the leaves. Makes ya wonder why they bothered to print out and mail all those schedules. Maybe it's just to make us folks outside ward 3 feel included.
Actually, they need more time to collect payment on the many parking violations that I have been issued this past year. Speaking of which, I got a new one yesterday morning after parking in front of a spot with no sign with time restrictions. Apparently you are supposed to walk down the street to check all of the signs.
best post ever.
The real reason to love street sweeping is that it forces residents who park their multiple cars on the public street and expect to hog a space for months without moving to actually occasionally reconsider their car storage plans.
DC used to have a cadre of sewer cleaners whose sole job was to ensure the lines weren't blocked with logs, debris, and garbage. That team was disbanded under the second Barry administration in the early 1980s because of funding cuts; their budget was something around a million dollars. So now, whenever you get major storm runoff or snow meltage, you get overflowing sewers and TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars' damage.
I hope you Dupont Circle and East Capitol Street folks have paid up your flood insurance. Wouldn't want a repeat of last year's debacle.