DULUTH, MN (Northern News Now) – After years of concern about public safety in Downtown Duluth, the city council has unanimously passed a measure that will upgrade security for a downtown parking ramp.
Duluth’s Tech Village Parking Ramp is used by a lot of people who work downtown, many of whom have raised concerns over the ramp’s safety.
They report a large number of needles laying around, and often being verbally harassed by people not using the ramp for its intended purposes.
The measure would invest $165,000 dollars into an access control system, which uses a variety of security tools like cameras, ID cards and doors to control the entry and exit of vehicles into a parking space, making it easier to keep people out of the garages who have not paid for their space.
The access control system will be installed this spring.
As of right now, due to cost, the Tech Village ramp is the only city parking ramp that will be getting the security update.
