Sorry about your sleep problem. I live on Concord Ave and we have a lot of street noise. My solutions:
- go to sleep early
- earplugs

Street announcements are useful for people who are just moving in from other cities. They may not be aware that there is street cleaning and the two trucks are happy to make business. Maybe the City can decrease the number of announcements, or make sounds like the ice cream truck.

I concur regarding the usefulness of the announcement. Please take not away this familiar morning song of Cambridge. It is music to my ears.

The announcements aren’t just useful for new residents. I’ve seen my long-time neighbors run out in their pajamas to move their car after the street cleaning announcements come by our street. People forget.....

I agree we should stop making the announcements. There's a lot of noise in the city but this is something that is fully self-imposed and is in our power to stop today.

It's also unfair that for the small number of people who store their personal property on the public way, the entire city has to be woken up or annoyed at 7am.

It'd be a great issue for city councilors to run on, since most people don't have cars and find the announcements useless!

That didn't take long to turn this into a political manifesto on bikes vs. cars.

I was thinking a few weeks ago that the city could use some modern technology: text or tweet

People can sign up to get automatic Alerts for Street Sweeping. I’m sure everyone has a calendar. I don’t know why some people still forget....

Street sweeping announcements are completely unnecessary and disruptive. All streets have signs posted with the same information. Read the sgns and obey the signs to avoid being towed.

City Hall – DR assigned this issue to Public Works - RF (Admin)

Not all people have smart-phones or calendars: many older people don't like or use that technology, poor people can't afford it, millions don't have Twitter accounts. And after 25 years living here (also a night owl with sleep trouble) I'm still saved by that bell from time to time! Given the high cost of being towed, it's not fair to the less well off to make them risk it because they don't have smartphones or Google calendars. Colin, I too look forward to a fossil-fuel-free (immediate!) future--but meanwhile, many people with cars here are handicapped, and/or work someplace inaccessible by T or bus.

Actually, I use an old-fashioned paper calendar. But I still have to remember what day it is.....

As noted in the discussion on this topic, there are a variety of opinions on the monthly street sweeping announcements. Some people do find them a nuisance, while others find them extremely helpful. At this time the general consensus has been that the benefits outweigh the negative aspects. Public Works will remain attentive to feedback from the community on this issue. However, the plan at this time is to continue this program.

Thanks for fixing this request!