Street Cleaning Temporarily Suspended Three Days
Streets & Sanitation Crews Re-Deployed To Flood Cleanup
Due to the deluge of rain and subsequent flooding over the weekend, Streets & Sanitation Commissioner Thomas Byrne has called for a three-day suspension of scheduled street cleaning services.
Streets & Sanitation personnel are being taken off street sweeping and recycling pickup duties in many areas of the city to assist with the aftermath of the weekend flooding according to an e-mail alert from 33rd ward Alderman Richard Mell’s office.
Streets and San is putting 60 additional garbage trucks on the streets to help with the cleanup.
“In order to generate these 60 extra garbage crews we will be reducing recycling pick-ups and street sweeping for the remainder of the week,” says Streets & Sanitation spokesperson Matt Smith via e-mail. “Both services will be performed in lesser numbers, but once again addressing health and safety issues takes precedence over other operations.”
The street cleaning hiatus began today, Wednesday, July 28th and will continue through Friday, July 30th, depending on the part of the city.
According to Smith, the department will reassess the situation on Monday to see if the hiatus on street cleaning and recycling pickup will continue.
E-mail requests for additional information from the Department of Streets & Sanitation were not returned by late Wednesday.
Of course, mine’s scheduled for Friday.
Get Ready SS………I saw your car today.
Na, na, na na na. They didn’t post signs today, so you’re SOL! (unless of course they sneek them in in the dead of night).
Do not belive all you hear from city hall.
Joey: Not sure what you’re alluding to. Personally, I had my suspicions about this. I wonder if has witnessed the 50 street cleaners on some flood-related clean-up over the past 3 days.