EDITOR:

It has become a major problem. There are speed limits. Those are not suggestions. When you are joyriding down Ludington Street by the cemetery at 45 and 50 miles per hour, you should get a ticket. Once you leave the stop light at 5th Avenue North going toward the fairgrounds, there is no prize to the first pick up that makes it. And then you get between Escanaba and Gladstone, if you are not going at least 65, you’ll get run over. It is like a drag strip.

I’m asking drivers to slow down. I’m asking for the public safety officers and sheriff’s deputies to start enforcing the speed laws. If you don’t want to write a ton of tickets, at least pull them over and give a warning. When there was a police car parked at the new four-way stop on North 30th, the traffic slowed. Maybe a car by U-Haul or the Log Cabin?

It is dangerous. If you try and cross North Lincoln Road by Holiday and Drifters, you risk life and limb. It should not be that way.

The weather will be getting warmer, I think. More people on bikes, motorcycles and more walking. Something needs to be done to slow traffic. If you are late, you should have planned better. That person walking across the highway should not pay the price for your lack of planning.

Tom Grant

Escanaba