What a waste of time!!!

The City of Duluth has been famous for this. They have time in and time out talked about renaming a streets.

It is a complete waste of time, no one cares. Now they want to rename a street after Bob Dylan yes a great prefomer. However we can honor him in many other ways, then renaming a street. What a joke.

If the council feels that is must rename a road I would ask that they don't rename road like London Road, or Superior Street ect.. These are roads that mean so much to Duluth and to rename them would be a shame.

The City faces major issues, yet the city feels like it must talk about renaming streets.


Here is the article from the Duluth news Tribune today.
'Honorary Bob Dylan Drive' less than meaningful tribute
A Bob Dylan Drive survey, conducted over the weekend during Duluth's Homegrown Music Festival, was far from scientific. Participants were, after all, concert-goers in drinking establishments. Still, its results were noteworthy.
Nearly 70 percent indicated that if the city of Duluth were to rename a street for Dylan, it ought to be London Road. Only 13 percent opted for downtown's Michigan Street, as had been proposed in February by City Councilor Don Ness and others. Nearly 300 votes were cast.
Ness said yesterday he plans now to introduce a resolution, leaving it up to his fellow councilors to choose the street, if they choose to honor one of Duluth's most famous sons at all.
Here's hoping they do. Honoring Dylan -- who was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth's St. Mary's hospital in 1941 and lived the first six years of his life in Central Hillside -- is a gesture long overdue. A Grammy Award-winning icon of folk and rock music, Dylan and his connection to Duluth ought to be celebrated. Renaming a highly visible public street would be an appropriate celebration.
But selecting an obscure or out-of-the-way street, such as Michigan Street, or paying tribute in a half-hearted way would no tribute at all. It would be an embarrassment.
"My intent would be just honorary," Ness told the News Tribune yesterday of his Dylan-naming plan, meaning if London Road is the choice, it'll still be London Road. No one would actually have to call it Bob Dylan Drive. Who claims to live on Rudy Perpich Memorial Highway?
"It would be ridiculous," Ness argued, "to rename all of London Road and to make all those people change their addresses."
No, it wouldn't. It would be reasonable to phase in a name change so businesses, residents and other London Road property owners could warm up to the idea and have time to use up stationery and other materials printed with their addresses.
London Road is a good candidate because it's home to the old Duluth armory where Dylan saw Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1959, which 40 years later he mentioned as an influence on his storied career. Part of London Road is also Minnesota Highway 61, immortalized in Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited."
Councilor Ness is absolutely correct is stating: "Our recognition of Bob Dylan's roots in Duluth is also a recognition of the talent that is born in our community every day. Duluth is a community that values music and art. It is part of our heritage. ...The spirit of artistic freedom and expression that Dylan represents is alive, well and thriving in Duluth."
Last week, 120 local bands and 300 area artists proved the vitality of the city's arts scene. Naming a street for Duluth's greatest artist would prove it even more.


Come on if you truely want to rename a street lets do for some one that lives here and cares about the city.

Here is my idea, rename a street after our Mayor, you could call it fully loaded road.