City’s main entry shameful

At least once a week I exit Interstate 90 at Division Street. This is the entryway to our downtown, the convention center, or to any of the hundreds of stores, medical facilities, etc., along Ruby or Division streets. This is one of the main ways for tourists to enter the city.

Most cities of our size have clean and bright welcome signs, or something similar. We have the entryway from Hell. A railroad underpass, where the visiting family of five can wait for the lights to change while they look at the filth, the 3 inches of pigeon poop, the dripping wet and peeling track supports, the graffiti, and, on their right, the bare dirt and rocks.

Shame on those people or organizations that have the power to insist on change – the newspapers, TV and radio stations, the business leaders, city maintenance department, and others who see this – and for some reason, can’t relate to the minus effect this must have on the many thousands of people who pass by there each day.

Larry Connelly

Liberty Lake