Many issues regarding our city affect each of us in our everyday lives. Each of us have our own opinions we use to anaylze how we feel about the issue. Two issues that seem to affect everyone in the city of Duluth, MN are our road system, along with the problem of drug use and drug use prevention. Both of these seem to be a problem in our city and it seems as though the only way our road and drug prevention are going to change is through people voicing their opinions on the issues being discussed.
First being our road systems, vehicles all over the road feel the wrath of Duluth’s roadways through the many bumps and potholes that line our city’s roads. It seems as though the city feels that it would be worthless to try and redo the roads around the city of Duluth, however our vehicles seem to think differently. A car with working shocks, brakes, and an alignment tends to go downhill quickly in more ways than one. Another piece of evidence supporting a new look at our roads around Duluth would be the many “dumb” intersections around our city, beginning with the one at Skyline Pkwy and Kenwood Ave. E. 5-way stops like the one being described are terrible for drivers, being how drivers are more than just “stupid” half the time, the other half their being an idiot driver. Other intersections that people feel aren’t quite as safe as they could be are ones like when going down Mesaba Ave. getting onto 35E S., where you have to be in the right hand lane to get onto the interstate, it sucks !
Another area that is in desperate need of change is that of drug/crime prevention. It doesn’t take much to notice a crack head when you see one. As serious as one can be, it seems that whenever I walk outside in mainly downtown and West Duluth, there’s some sketchy man walking all crooked down the street;this is bad. Many times it even gets to the point where as a 20-year old male, good sized, I feel threatend by the “crack heads, meth heads, and drunks” who roam the streets at all hours of the night. Where is our law enforcement around here? Every night and many times throughout the day, I witness many people whom I wouldn’t be around during the day let alone the night. Something has to be done about the prevalent drug users around the city of Duluth and the only thing that’s going to change the issue is people voicing their opinions. Many people agree in saying that it’s not safe for kids to be playing around outside with the many “sketchy” people walking around all doped outta their minds. Our city is not safe how it is at the moment, things must change before our cities is swamped with Juvinille delinquents. A friend that lived with me in an old house before had been walking home from work one night when he saw something on the ground. The friend picked up what was seen on the ground and thought it to be some sort of illegal narcotic, it was, he through it down the toilet. What does this situation tell us about what our kids can see outside when they’re playing in the city of Duluth? We need change in Duluth!