The Seattle Department of Transportation had crews and sweepers assigned to clean up and reopen the streets as quickly as possible.
SEATTLE — Official crowd numbers for the Seahawks parade through downtown Seattle haven’t been released yet, but the party of the decade brought out hundreds of thousands of people.
Fans waited hours for their chance to see the Super Bowl winning Seattle Seahawks drive (and even walk) by.
What did it take to clean up?
About 20 Seattle Department of Transportation crew members alongside street sweepers got the job done in just a few hours.
“This is my first one of these and everybody says it’s going to be 750,000 to a million people…it might sound trivial, but it’s a big deal,” said SDOT maintenance manager Brent Hambert.
The bulk of the debris and trash were blown into the street, then sweepers came through to pick it all up.
SDOT said the priority was getting all of the intersections reopened on 4th Avenue as quickly as possible after the parade.
The parade wrapped up just after 1 p.m. and the roads were cleared and back open just before 4:45 p.m.
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