Riverside will remove homeless encampments from state freeway ramps in the city.
The city council voted unanimously Aug. 5 to take that action, which establishes one of the first homeless maintenance agreements between a city and Caltrans, according to a statement on Riverside’s website.
The pilot program is scheduled to last two years. City workers will remove the homeless and charge Caltrans up to $50,000 per quarter, or $400,000 for the duration of the agreement. Without that agreement, Riverside would be prohibited from removing homeless encampments within city limits on the 91 and 60 freeways and Interstate 10…