Austin City Council passes a resolution to negotiate with TxDOT and put trash receptacles on State owned right of ways.
Mayor Steve Adler explained the city needs TxDOT’s permission to install anything like trash cans or dumpsters on state roadways. IF successful they would help keep things clean, like with the city’s violet Bag program pilot. And with TxDOT, under Gover Abbott’s order to clean up encampments Monday, Councilmember Greg Casar hopes this means progress on helping the homeless. “I think that we agree with the state that litter under our bridges and overpasses should be cleaned up. And I Hope that we all agree, there is a really big difference between litter and people. That litter needs cleaning up, but people need help.”
Councilmember Pio Renteria added, “When the Governor comes and the state starts cleaning the underpass, I wish that he would open up that beautiful park right in front of his Governor’s mansion, and allow them to camp there, so our homeless people have a place to stay.”
With an “okay” from TxDOT, the city would add trash containers to areas based on results from the violet bag program and services already ongoing. Austin Resource Recovery would set up and maintain those trash receptacles.
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