Agreed! We need better signage about street cleaning times!

The signage is already out there - sweeping on Thursday. Unfortunately, they don't come on Thursday. Because of this, everybody ignores the signs. I would love to see regular sweeping per the signs every Thursday.

The last time there was a major effort with this was 2008. The only problem was that it was just a money making operation by the police. They started ticketing everyone out of the blue on Thursdays after years without regular sweeping. The police ticketed all the cars, but city street sweepers never showed up. Everybody was so @#$% off that many signs were torn down. Perhaps it could be done better this time.

Wish we had signs in my neighborhood. Some years ago, neighbors asked City Council if we could buy them ourselves. City staff responded that designing the signs was too much work. These days, when someone reports useless sweeping on streets full of parked cars, City staff reply that everyone (even new residents and visitors) SHOULD know when not to park, and don't need to be reminded.

On the other hand, people who park on the street when they have perfectly good rear, off-alley parking, say they do it to prevent theft and vandalism, because the police won't patrol the alleys.

If it's not one thing...

Thank You for reporting, the 700 block of Curtola Parkway is route 18 and is swept every 4th Wednesday of each month. If all of the Sweepers are up and running and all the operators are here they also sweep that area on the 2nd Wednesday, but that is not your scheduled day. But you will always see them on the 4th Wednesday.

Could the signs be changed to reflect that? The 700 block of Curtola signs show every Thursday as the sweeping day.

John,
We have early morning routes that are main thoroughfares that are swept once a week early in the morning between the hours of 5am - 7:30 am, this is one of those areas. Every Thursday morning it should be getting swept between those hours, but your actual route is done on the 4th Wednesday. So the signs are there for that purpose.