PennDOT on Monday will be decommissioning a new encampment under the 31st Street Bridge. The decommissioning comes with offers of help, but it also comes with a new resolve to prevent their return.
Responding to complaints from homeowners on Washington’s Landing of drug activity and aggressive panhandling above Route 28, PennDOT removed that encampment, but those living there have simply relocated to a spot under the 31st Street Bridge.
“They congregate under the bridge, they sleep under the bridge, there’s obviously activities happening under that bridge that frankly nobody would want 50 yards from their home,” said Gerry Delon of Washington’s Landing…