Traffic & Transit
Parking Ban, Trash Delay Announced In Hamden
With snow in the forecast, officials announce a parking ban that will be in effect in Hamden along with a delay in trash collection.
HAMDEN, CT — A parking ban will be in effect in Hamden, beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 1, until further notice, Mayor Curt B. Leng and Public Works Director Craig Cesare announced.
The parking ban prohibits anyone to park, or allow to remain parked, any vehicle on any odd numbered portion of a town street or highway.
The ban further prohibits anyone to allow or permit a vehicle to stand or park on any town street or highway in such a manner as to constitute a hazard or obstruction to vehicular or pedestrian traffic. The Hamden Police Department is authorized, pursuant to Section 71.07 of the Code of the Town of Hamden, to remove any vehicle parked in violation of this ordinance. Such removal shall be at the risk and expense of the owner of the vehicle.
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Hamden Public Works has also announced that the Transfer Station is closed until further notice due to the expected inclement weather and associated clean-up operations. Additional details will be provided regarding reopening of the Transfer Station when available, officials said.
Officials also announced Sunday evening that trash and recycling collection will be delayed one day due to the winter storm in the forecast.
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Trash and recycling collection scheduled for Monday, Feb. 1, will take place as scheduled. Any locations that are not collected will be collected on the following Wednesday, officials said.
“Collections which would have usually taken place on Tuesday, February 2nd will now take place on Wednesday, February 3rd, and so forth with Friday's collection now occurring on Saturday, February 6th,” officials wrote in a news release. “Residents are advised to bring in their receptacle bins in anticipation of plow drivers clearing the roadways, and to bring them back to the street for collection day. The regular schedule for trash and recycling pickup will resume Monday, February 8th.”
For more information, contact the Public Works Department at 203-287-2600.
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