Yes it's an election year. That means the dems want to put on a good show for the public and maybe help you forget that many parts of WA have turned into a third world ghetto.
Through my regular commutes through Tacoma and Seattle, I would regularly see huge trash heaps and tent camps on the sides of the road. When they couldn't be seen, they still gave themselves away with plumes of acrid smoke billowing from the underbrush from the pallets and other scrap wood that they burn.
This has been going on since at least 2020.
Suddenly, in the last few months, I've started to see some of them get busted and cleaned up. You'll see WSP on the side of the road along with a few trucks and cargo trailers. All the trash gets pulled out of the hidden camps along side the road. Then they have Asplundh or other contractors come in and clear all the brush so that the camps can no longer hide in the thickets.
A few weeks back traffic was stopped on eastbound hwy 16 in Tacoma as several homeless fought with WSP over a single large tent, trying to prevent them from taking it. I guess fought is a relative term because WSP was basically hands off and just stood there as these bums tried to take their shitty tent back to... somewhere.
The park and ride in Tacoma off of 16 that had become filled with broken down RVs and other derelict vehicles with their hoods permanently left open, got emptied out for the most part.
Can't have the public being reminded of how bad things have become as their ballots are showing up in the mail this fall.
I wonder who gave the order to begin the cleanup?