Reports (30)

The street cleaner has only been on our street once since it resumed in the past it used to be every Wednesday

street was missed for scheduled sweeping on Tuesday. Resident would like street swept | Type of debris: [Requestformechanicalsweeping] Cars parked on the street: [No]

Please schedule street sweeping for late morning once cars have moved/people have left for work, rather than 6:30 like this morning. Roslindale is one of the few (only 2 I believe) neighborhoods without posted street cleaning. The street sweeper whizzes through at high speed (I can hear it zipping by) and is unable to reach any curbs to sweep and have any effect. Please provide Roslindale with the same regular, reasonably timed sweeping service provided to the rest of the City. Thank you.

Good evening, I'd like to submit a formal complaint about the street cleaning in East Boston. I am a new resident to the area as of the last 2 months and I have never seen dirtier streets and more trash in any part of Boston. Each week I see the BTD towing cars and providing tickets, but the street sweepers are not doing their job. There is trash all over the streets of East Boston, especially Chelsea St. I'd like to submit this formal complaint and see if there is any plans to do normal street cleaning and also anything to help entourage the community to be more aware of their environment. Thank you for your help and making our city look more beautiful. Kris Hart, a concerned East Boston resident |

Birch Street is a one way street and the first right off Corinth Street, from Sullivan's Pharmacy all the way up the hill to 70 Birch Street. This street has parking on one side, the right. From Sullivan's Pharmacy to the top of the hill never gets cleaned on the right side. It is always dirty with old leaves and full of trash on the sidewalk and cigarette butts from the smoking staff at Sullivan's. Can we please have the right hand side of the street cleaned? A street cleaner comes by in the summer months and cleans the left, Thank you |

this street is scheduled for Tuesday Sweeping. It has not been swept for the last four weeks, including this week | Type of debris: [Requestformechanicalsweeping] Cars parked on the street: [Yes]

Can you please tell me the street cleaning schedule for our street? Or what the schedule will be in 2016? thank you! |

Bertson Avenue was swept yesterday, SUNDAY at 8:30 AM!! As we had no notice, every one of my neighbors who generally park their cars on the street in fact did have theirs on the street. I did, too. I surely hope that you do not pay the worker overtime or time + half for working on a Sunday. That would be a colossal waste of tax dollars. Coming that early on a Sunday meant that there was no opportunity for the job to be done even half-well because of all the parked cars, and we and others were awakened by the sound of the machine. Double annoyance. I know that Tuesday is our street cleaning day. Every Monday night I dutifully park elsewhere with the hope that the schedule is honored. We often go literally weeks before the truck comes by. We have been hearing for years that your equipment breaks down. On the other side of LaGrange Street we hear the street cleaning every week; that area is swept by a private contractor. Why can't the reliable private contractor be assigned to this neighborhood for a change? Finally, when does street sweeping end for the season? I bet it's December 1. That amounts to five Tuesdays. I'm willing to bet we will not see the sweeper any more than twice. I hope to be proven wrong. Thank you very much. Peggy Hooper hooperspan@gmail.com 617-325-4464 | Type of debris: [Other] Cars parked on the street: [Yes]

Recently parking restriction signs were put up on our block for street sweeping. Every 2nd and 4th Wed 8:00am-12:00pm. No street sweeper came by today within those hours. This is the second time this has happened since this has been put in effect. At 12:00, restrictions go in effect around the corner on Appleton, so everyone moved their cars over to our street. Now, at 2:00 the sweeper just went down our street and was only able to clean one side of the street. This infuriates me because I swept the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street (back of Appleton properties) and pulled weeds throwing them into the street to be swept up. Since there are all cars on the street again from Appleton, the sweeper is not able to clean them up, leaving them making more of a mess until at a future time when no cars are there I can clean it up. Why have parking regulations when the sweeper doesn't adhere to them? These new signs have caused a lot of stress on our street. They were put up as the result of one neighbor questioning why we didn't have street cleaning over 3 years ago, and were put up with no notice. Dartmouth Place is a short dead end street in the South End. One of the major reasons we purchased our place, aside from the location, quietness and charm it has, was the fact that there were no parking restrictions. We either walk or use public transportation during the week and only use our car on weekends. When we moved in, it was explained to us that we as a neighborhood community clean up the street ourselves. This impressed us even more. Some of our neighbors have lived on Dartmouth Place for over 30 years and have never had any problems with keeping the street clean. There are a few of us who routinely sweep and weed to keep the street looking nice. There is no need for these parking restrictions especially when the street isn't cleaned during those hours. Please follow up with the street maintenance department explaining how important it is to keep to their schedule. Parking is a problem all around this city and situations like this do not make it any better. I don't understand why we are forced to have our street swept, requiring us to have parking restrictions when you have a neighborhood that is willing, able and HAS BEEN taking care of it in the past. Sincerely, John Carroll-Yagel |

See other note above. We do not have regularly scheduled street sweeping on Grovenor Road and, as a consequence, it is really very messy. Collectively, we would like to have the street sweeper come if the city is willing and able to coordinate a date with us when we will move our cars and prevent non-residents from parking as well, so that the street-sweeper can make a run down the street. We really appreciate your assistance. Thanks! |