At this time, the DPW sweeps the main drags every week starting April 1st.
The other streets in the City are swept in the Fall and Spring.

Streets in our area (Riverside Ave) haven't been swept in ages!

Thanks for stating the obvious Mary. What is the process to submit a change to the current schedule?

we pay thousands of dollars in taxes and our streets look awful

That's it no ideas on how to go about getting cleaner streets wow

The simple answer is that the city does not have enough tax revenue to add more street cleaning. Somerville is able to add extra cleaning because they bring in WAAY more business tax revenue than Medford. Adding more businesses in Medford will bring in more tax revenue and allow for more services, like street cleaning. I recommend pushing your city councilors to bring in more businesses for exactly this reason.

Chicken or the egg?

We need to clean the streets to attract more businesses. The original poster was correct in writing that the enforcement of parking bans and parking tickets should generate the revenue needed to pay for the additional cleaning. Taxes are not the answer. Enforcement of the parking restriction is (which Medford is notorious for not tagging).

ok, back to work

Haha good point - chicken! No, egg!

But I agree, enforcement is definitely a step in the right direction. For example, apparently anyone parked in the triangle in front of Tufts Park should get ticketed, but they never do. That would be easy revenue!

I don't mean to sound like I'm advocating for higher taxes, but certainly a more active business community would help.

We are looking into a program that would address more sweeping in each section of the City. This would require signage for enforcement for the Highway to properly institute the program. This would encompass 85 miles of public streets and 31 miles of private ways that are within our City.