Locals feel 'drastic' reduction in freeway cleanups

State no longer paying city of Portland to remove camps and garbage

Campsite are growing as cleanup funding goes down.

The Oregon Department of Transportation wants the public to know that clean-ups under Interstate 405 and other ODOT property continue although it stopped paying the city of Portland to do that work on July 1.

ODOT says “litter, graffiti and camp clean-up will continue, but at a reduced level of service.”

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