Who is At Fault?
Where does litter come from? Litter flies out of open beds of pick up trucks, sometimes garbage haulers have debris in the hoppers (top portion of the service trucks) and it flies out, sometimes people hauling their material to the landfill do not secure their loads properly and material escapes, and sometimes people carelessly toss their trash out the window. Who is responsible for removing litter from State highways? The cleaning of highways falls on the California Department of Transportation Caltrans. Unfortunately, the simple fact is that Caltrans Maintenance Division has four employees to maintain the areas from Garapata Bridge in Big Sur to Santa Cruz. Maintenance priorities are fence repairs and safety issues and then, if at all possible, the cleaning of the highways. Small sections of the highways may be adopted and cleaned once or twice per month. Two Monterey sections are adopted, one by Victory Toyota and one by Lexus. But many sections cannot be adopted due to safety issue
