Ticketing enforcement for street sweeping in the City of Boston will resume on Monday August, 10. Failure to move a vehicle during posted street sweeping hours will result in a $40 fine ($90 in Charlestown) and $90 for overnight street sweeping. At this time, the City will not be towing vehicles. While street cleaning has Read More…
Street sweeping schedules are in effect. Ticketing enforcement will resume on Monday, August 10th. Enforcement will not include towing vehicles until further notice during the COVID-19 pandemic. With moving season here, many streets will have temporary parking permits posted over the next few weeks. Avoid getting parking tickets for street sweeping and temporary parking permit Read More…
While street cleaning is still operating on a normal schedule, the City of Boston is not ticketing or towing for street sweeping violations at this time. With residents being asked to stay at home and avoid non-essential travel in attempts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Boston Transportation Department is not enforcing street Read More…
The Boston Public Works Department will resume regularly posted street sweeping on March 1st in the North End, South End and Beacon Hill. Weather permitting, efforts will be underway to clean the streets following this winter’s snow and ice. The Public Works Department will be proactively cleaning the streets. Several hand cleaning crews and mechanical sweepers will be Read More…
In the last three weeks, one vehicle on my block was not towed on street cleaning days. This has never happened in the last decade. The debris under those cars sat there for two weeks. A South End resident said a car on her street last week was not towed. Again, the cigarette butts, doggie-doo Read More…
Boston’s street sweeping is back in full swing making it a good time to revisit the new features at ParkWise, a free mobile parking app developed by North End resident Alex Shvartz. Having been successful here in the neighborhood, Shvartz’s StreetInfoTech has now released the app for use throughout the Boston area, including Cambridge and Somerville. ParkWise is a Read More…
Boston Public Works has announced that mechanical street sweeping resumes citywide on April 1, 2015. Don’t get ticketed or towed! Look at the posted street signs for the specific day and time. Note that the City has extended street sweeping to include the 5th week of each month. For example, if your street is normally Read More…
The Boston Public Works Department announced that posted residential street sweeping will be postponed in neighborhoods with March street sweeping (including the North End, South End and Beacon Hill) until streets are cleared to the curb and gutters are free of ice and snow. In order for streets to be properly swept, a thaw and Read More…
Please look at these disgusting sanitary conditions on Cooper Street. Theses photos were taken on March 30, 2013 in front of 17 and 19 Cooper Street. This is not the first instance for these two buildings. I have repeatedly observed food and bottles (meat, vegetables and fruit) being thrown out in paper bags in front Read More…
Oh, to be in Boston, now that March is here. Because it will be cleaner. The cars will be towed. Those big mechanical sweepers will chug down our streets, and winter’s flotsam and jetsam will be sucked up and taken away starting this week, a whole month earlier than the traditional starting date. This is Read More…
The following information comes from Boston Public Works Department regarding the addition of six new North End streets to the mechanical sweeping program. North End street sweeping starts the week of March 11th, but the new streets will have a grace period until April 1, 2013. New Posted Street Sweeping The Boston Public Works Department Read More…
Due to roadway conditions — posted street sweeping for the South End, North End and Beacon Hill is cancelled for the entire week of March 4, 2013. The Public Works Department will reevaluate conditions to begin posted sweeping and enforcement for the week of March 11, 2013. Residents do not have to move their cars Read More…