(Washington, DC) DPW will temporarily suspend daytime street cleaning from January 3 to March 18, 2005. During this time, “No Parking/Street Cleaning” restrictions will also be lifted in these residential areas. Residents and visitors who park along posted, alternate-side, daytime street sweeping routes will not be required to move their cars on street-sweeping days during the sweeper hiatus. Residential street cleaning resumes Monday, March 21, 2005.

However, overnight contract sweeping scheduled for major arterials (such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Constitution, Independence Avenues and others) will take place as usual all winter, with the attendant parking ban during sweeping hours.

The contract sweeping is part of the street maintenance program administered by the Department of Transportation (DDOT) to keep DC’s largest and most heavily used thoroughfares clean. Motorists are asked not to park in these areas during the posted overnight hours. Enforcement is handled by MPD along these major routes.