My son and I parked on Broad Street and walked to the Billiard Club on Cherry Street this past weekend. It's probably a total of two blocks.
In that short walk we passed where Rone Regency used to be on 6th Street and in that doorway was about a years worth of human feces and urine covering the doors and walls. The concrete sidewalk on the street is all broken up and the metal in between the concrete slabs sticks up which creates a hazard when walking.
On Cherry Street we passed a pile of vomit on the sidewalk and there was broken glass from beer bottles all over the street and sidewalk.
I was totally embarrassed by the condition of my city. The leaders of this town can spend a huge sum of money blocking the streets and impeding the flow of traffic to create bike lanes that are never used, but they can't come up with the money to clean up the puke, crap, urine and broken glass?
Perhaps the city leaders could stop wasting money on eyesores like the big metal cow wearing a robe on the corner of Chestnut Street and M.L. King and use the money to hire someone to keep our city clean. Why invite tourists to come visit Chattanooga when our streets are a stinking bio-hazard?
Mike Howard
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Yes, the downtown streets and sidewalks need to be cleaned. We have a jail full of inmates that could be on the street picking up litter. Midnight to six a.m., Monday-Friday. Just like the cleaning crews on weekends.
Make downtown look good for the tourists.
Mike Layne