ODOT Installs GIGANTIC BOULDERS In Portland Next To I-205
Yet another wacky solution to Portland’s rampant homelessness problem has been caught on camera. This time the solution is to place giant boulders behind KingPins family entertainment center next to the interstate freeway 205.
Once again, it seems a scorched earth type policy has been put in to place, meaning if homeless people are unable to set up tents on the ground, then the area will not be overrun by drugs and loose needles. The cost of putting these boulders in to place cannot be cheap, but it also brings a very obvious answer to residents who have seen policies like this all too often. Surely the homeless tents will just move to another part of town?
Some internet users have joked that Portland should no longer be called stumptown but instead should take the name Boulder from Colorado. Strangely enough, this isn’t even the weirdest homelessness solution come up with this week, after trees were pulled out of the ground in Madrona Park to stop camping in the area.
However, residents of the local area seem pleased with the idea overall. Many Portland locals have complained about unresponsive humans walking out on to the interstate in front of cars and then being unable to realise that the lights have changed to green and they are in iminent danger.
Others report of being constantly harassed when they walk down the street (since this is a pathway to the MAX) and regularly having their garbage torn open and left in the streets.
In fairness to the ODOT, it seems like their hands were tied and they needed a solution since they are required to prevent camping on their land under state law. Other than fill the place up with gigantic boulders, it seems there is not too much else that they could have done.
Clearly this was one of the worst affected areas of the city, but now surely it will just become somewhere else instead?
Quit playing Wack a mole with these people
I know homelessness is a problem. Don’t you think that some of the people might need help mentally first.
You have to realize or want the help. There may be a few that do but I ha e lived it. Most are by choice due to long term decisions. That is not our issue. I volunteer and cook monthly. There are few asking but boy is it being handed out. It doesn’t pay to get so er when you don’t go hungry and if ya just get in their faces long enough they will give you what everyone else is working for. I HAVE LIVED IT.
Lol
If you just continue to house the homeless, you will reap more homeless that are sent here from other jurisdictions.Move them to Forest Service work camps, where they can get clean, learn a skill, and find a job.
The Deep state is controlling all this homeless if you look around and every part of the US they want that property okay China owns Canada Washington Oregon California Texas and I think Arizona so there you go start looking around the homeless they play them they are paying these people to camp they’re paying them so don’t run a song don’t run off stand up man up stand up don’t you see our first and second Amendments have been taken away people need to wake up quit listening to the fake news they took took her Carson off and they’re going to be taking a bunch more off and they’re going to be coming after everyone they already are the homeless problem will never stop they make too much money and they throw it out what do they do for them nothing they could have had them in huge buildings all of them this is a way to get our land history repeating itself but this is worse way worse
Wow! That’s one minute I’ll never get back.
While That’s a viable action for odot the homeless are still homeless. What we need is housing for these people. Also they should be housed even if they’re still using. I know that sounds counterproductive, but I think it would make it safer for regular citizens. I have a lot more to say but it’d probably be way to many characters
It’s not a homeless issue… it’s addiction.
Treat the addiction first!
I find that if services would do there job and get the people in housing when they are asking for it they would have never gotten into the drugs but the longer they are out on the streets they find that the home owners don’t want them to sleep here or there an do nothing but bitch about it,if you want it to go away get off your ass and do something about it don’t just push them out to be someone else’s problem
What you and other leftists just don’t understand is that throwing money at addicts only promotes addiction. Look at the way the addicts live. Housing isn’t the answer, nor is paying to support the life style. Root problem is acceptance of addiction and the mental problems associated with it as ” normal.” What started in the free love 60s has resulted in the decline of morals and increase in reliance on drugs to solve problems that they cannot resolve.
Regular people!!!
Everyone needs to watch themselves closely, homelessness could reach out and bite you.
First car to strike a boulder and someone is killed will add to the price tag of the boulders for certain!
They arent putting the boulders ON the freeway. And if someone drives off the freeway and hits a boulder, thats called natural selection.
You’re a moron
At this moment a Boulder is better than a homeless camp
Without mental health facilities, this problem will never be solved.
When the city decides to quit enabling this type of behavior.
If you can’t keep the the homeless from coming back to an area after cleaning up a camp then cleaning up camps is a complete waste of money and resources.
Love it. More boulders. Shrink their ground & territory to camp.
Ok if it was me I’d dog a hole under boulders…. Warm safe place….
Seems like a good idea. Glad to see ODOT taking this small but positive step in discouraging drug addicts and derilicts from squatting on public property, but more needs to be done. All tax oayer funding given to homeless non-profit groups must be tied to a REDUCTION in homelessness.
A Rock garden is more aesthetically pleasing than a homeless camp and its associated, unregulated garbage dump.
Well sure, of course spending a bunch of money to bring a bunch of giant rocks from who knows how far away,
has got to be more beneficial than spending it on some type of mental health services, treatment centers, or maybe even certain areas that are able to help the homeless have some type of temp.housing, until they can transition into a permanent solution..
Just runnthem out of one area, into another will do nothing more than compound the problem by making new areas in town the replacement for wherever they just got ran off from
Stop wasting time and money! I dont how you look at it we are doing nithing to help the overall issue of homelessness. Pull em off the the streets the way they they landed there. The beguinning is already in place. Of course they will stay homeless. Why dont feed steak and put em up at the ritz. This cheap crap going isnt housing. Heres the only way out.
1.Reopen mental hospitals and therapy appointments with Therapists for the mentally Ill.
2.Reopen treatment centers for Alcholics and addicts and make treatment affordable so they become productive members of society. Then offer affordable housing to them, housing they can affort- not the government.
3.Those that choose not to choose have still have made a choice, off to jail they go for another chance to choose, its called diversion. That already exists. Lots o room in jail for the criminal now. Those that didnt choose diversion have affordable housing in their jail cell while they decide. Take all the time you want.
Yup kinda like a do over. I think we should hdve learned what was done didnt work. How to pay for it? Nobody told me I had a choice to work. If i didnt I got hungry. Make the homeless work either way. Say one two hrs of policing trash for each meal, you wont eat anywhere for less. Ok, mayybe an hr and a half. Whatever we do it is past time to cease talking about it and actually do it- whatever that is. Whatever that is- key word? WE
Open your eyes Portland , don’t you see the common thread in the cities run by democrats? The only reason homeless would go to a AAA meeting is to get the donuts and coffee Do you really think the homeless who might think they are mentally ill, will take meds or attend meetings. Your mayor did this to your city.
They will find a way to camp on top of the boulders.
Portland is way too Woke and limp wristed. Draw a hard line and kick these MFer’s out! The more of our tax dollars you waste on this and creating services for the homeless, the more homeless you will get. Do you know why I’m not homeless? Because I don’t want to be!! It is a choice, drug fueled or not!!!