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After a seven year hiatus, the Detroit Department of Public Works resumes residential street sweeping.
"We are thrilled to be able to reinstitute a service like this, which reaches every neighborhood and helps keep our city clean year-round," says Ron Brundidge, director of public works. “We’ve added new street sweepers to our fleet and hired additional machine operators to ensure that we are fully staffed for the relaunch of this program.”
The last time residential side streets were swept citywide was 2010. The service ended due to budget cuts.
The city has now begun the first of three planned annual sweeps of over 2,000 miles of neighborhood streets.
