I took a walk recently, down Northeast 88th Street to Northeast Highway 99 and down Highway 99 all the way to Northeast 68th Street and, wow, what a mess. While 88th Street isn’t too bad — some of the homes could use some TLC, but that’s a different story — Highway 99 is terrible. Litter, broken bottles, torn political signs, empty lots with weeds nearly 4 feet tall and even a dead cat along the way. Interesting, though, that is only on the east side of the highway.
What do we as neighbors do about it? We could walk along with garbage bags and pick it up, but then what? Where do we dump it and, better yet, how do we get the property owners to clean up their own property? I’d do more than my share if I knew where to put the trash — there will be a lot.
Now, I know I won’t hear from anyone on this, so it is probably just a waste of time. But it is a shame that this highway looks like it does. What to do, I wonder.
Leonard Mills
Vancouver
