In five years, over 10,000 cars have been towed away. Today it can happen to you.

If you haven’t moved your car yet, it may be too late. Now the sidewalks in Oslo will be swept. Check your street here.

Throughout the winter, the municipality has spread more than 25,000 tonnes of gravel in Oslo’s streets.

Now everything will go away.

From Tuesday until May 17, the municipality will wash every street in the city. And if you don’t follow along, it can quickly become expensive.

Thousands are roped in

If you have not removed your car before the sweepers arrive, it will be towed. For passenger cars, the bill comes to NOK 5,100.

Since 2018, the municipality has towed over 12,500 cars in connection with spring cleaning of the streets.

The municipality therefore asks residents to familiarize themselves with when the sweeping begins and where. Signs must be put up in all streets at least 24 hours before the sweeping begins.

– Towing delays the work and is both expensive and a nuisance for the person who gets the car towed, so we would like to avoid that as far as possible. That is why it is important that everyone who parks along the street pays extra close attention to signs in the street going forward, says press officer Hanne Sofie Fremstad at the Bymiljøetaten to Aftenposten.

The last planned sweeping day is 13 May, but the municipality allows for delays to occur.

Here you can search for your street to see when the sweeping is scheduled:

Tons of gravel

This winter, the municipality has thus spread 25,000 tonnes of gravel. It has been a fairly cold winter, and 25,000 tonnes is a lot of gravel.

However, it is not as much as in the 2017/2018 winter season. The municipality then had to use as much as 38,000 tonnes of gravel to prevent the streets from becoming too slippery.

In comparison, the municipality used just under 5,000 tonnes of gravel ten years ago, i.e. in the winter season 2013/2014.

In the overview, you can see how much gravel the municipality has spread over the last ten winters: