01-05-2018 21:00 via ocregister.com

Transit system not built to be another homeless camp

Caltrans says it cleaned up 7,000 homeless camps along the state’s 254 highways during fiscal year 2017. The cost was $10.4 million, an increase of 34.2 percent over the previous year.
This problem is on pace to overtake civilization, if it hasn’t reached that point already.
It’s hard to describe as “civilized” the conditions faced by the Caltrans workers scraping trash off the freeway ramps and embankments. In fact, the agency was just hit with a grievance by the I
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