Ottawa street sweeping: Temporary ‘no-parking’ zones in effect starting Monday [Video]

While Ottawa street sweeping is scheduled to begin on Monday, people are asked to watch for “no-parking” signs in several neighbourhoods.

“Vehicles remaining in signed temporary no parking areas will be ticketed and towed,” Ottawa By-Law said in a post on X.

To avoid parking tickets, residents are asked to move their vehicles accordingly.

“This means your street will be cleaned more efficiently!” read the post.

The City of Ottawa says on its website street sweeping is done in several phases:

• Sidewalks, bus stop pads and medians are cleaned first by a variety of methods using sidewalk sweepers, flusher trucks and hand brooms.

• City streets are swept by a flusher truck, which uses water pressure to flush the debris to the side of the curbs. A vacuum sweeper truck then picks up the majority of grit, debris, small particles and dust.

• This operation might be repeated several …