As I noted last year, this is going to become a fairly routine event on our bike paths as long as EPD refuses to remove the illegal campers and drug addicts. In fairness to EPD, the city has put an unsustainable number of sanctioned camps near the river, which puts a huge customer base for the drug dealers all in one place, and has refused to fund some homeless shelters (code-compliant, actual buildings that people can live in) in other areas.

We have an incompetent city manager who keeps a staff of department heads who are morons. Worse still, our city council is so clueless they have no idea that this is the case. But, hey, let's go spend $30M on a new city hall after spending nearly $20M on a cop shop while our downtown goes to ruin, we have no public restrooms and our parks and bike paths are taken over by thugs. Heck of a job, Jon.