In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works June 2017 | Page 11

Their mission: Pick up the tons
of debris left behind by the
celebrants.
More than four dozen street
cleaners worked the operation.
They used blowers, rakes,
brooms, shovels and flusher
and mechanical sweeper trucks
to work as quickly as possible
to get the roads back open
to vehicles and bikes and the
sidewalks clean for pedestrians.
This year, about 250 contingents
participated in the 47th-annual
Pride Parade on June 25; an
estimated 1 million others lined
the route – along Market Street
from Beale to Eighth streets –
to watch the moving celebration.
The windy weather didn’t make
the job easy for our crews, with
trash and confetti blown in all
directions. Still, we got the job
done by 7:45 p.m., only a couple
of hours after the parade passed
by.
Public Works crews also worked
overnight to scour Civic Center
Plaza and nearby streets after
the two-day Pride weekend
festival shut down. By 5:30
a.m. Monday the neighborhood
sparkled.
In all, working block by block,
we cleaned up more than 30
tons of trash along the parade
route and around the festival
area.
Other Pride festivities kept
us busy – the Trans March
from Mission Dolores to the
Tenderloin on June 23 and the
Dyke March from Dolores Park
to the Castro the next day. We
also hired a herd of goats to
prepare the Twin Peaks hillside
for the annual Pink Triangle
commemorative ceremony,
which was held on June 24.
We also want to give a big
shout-out to Recology, the
refuse hauler, for being a great
partner in working with us to
put the City back in shape after
the busy Pride festivities.
We’ll be back next year ready to
do it all over again. With pride!
June 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter