El Paso Community Analysis

The El Paso community can be said to be peaceful in terms of violence and drugs. In certain aspects however, our community suffers. I live on the Far East side of El Paso which is now currently growing at a huge rate. Because of this, streets as well as restaurants and stores are getting more and more populated. Along with this is the fact that since we are growing so fast, construction is taking place in order to allow a “better” flow of traffic. The result from this is catastrophic. Instead of having less cars on the road at a time, more and more people seem to be getting stuck on the road. This wouldn’t be much of a problem if our community did not spend much time working on these structures. Many people get frustrated about this for a couple
of reasons. First of all, those who are trying to get to their jobs or some important event, won’t be able to get there on time because of all the traffic. Second, construction makes our roads somewhat smaller. As a result, people who are inexperienced at driving may encounter some problems, but even those who have good driving skills will find it a bit difficult and will be forced to act quickly. In addition, another problem that I tend to see in my community is the accidents caused by the behaviors of teenagers.
What I mean by this is that, young adults get involved with things such as drinking and bullying. Nothing good comes out of this. Teenagers should not be even drinking in the first place as most of us aren’t in the legal age to be able to drink. Although bullying isn’t illegal, people should still not take part in it. Taking this into consideration, many problems arise. Countless times we see accidents involving teens on the news. Most of these have to do with them being drunk. Regardless of the area or community, it happens everywhere and it should be
fixed.
My home school is El Dorado. Many of my friends that go there tell me about all the drama that happens in the school. Sometimes, this has even made it to the news. For example, recently, there was a threat going on in the school. From what I recall it had to do with people from El Dorado threatening people from another high school. Weapons were involved and it came to the attention of the police. Soon, police cars were patrolling the area checking for something suspicious. Since my bus picks me up at my home school, I was able to witness this myself as well as some friends. As early as 6:50, police officers were checking the area. This should never be necessary. Moreover, to both of these problems, involvement from every member in my community is necessary.
There shouldn’t be a single person trying to fix all the problems. Regarding the traffic problem, there could be many solutions. First of all, we should tell government officials that we need to improve construction time. We could this by either hiring more workers or closing the road for longer periods of time so they can be worked on. Although this could increase traffic, it would be for a shorter amount of time. In order to avoid car accidents from happening during this process, having people retake their driving lessons or informing them before they get on the road will reduce accidents significantly. Drivers will be able to act better according to the situation they are in instead of panicking, stressing, and getting
frustrated. Lastly, the accidents involving teenager’s remains. For this problem in particular, we need more participation of the community. This is because not much will really happen if not many people take action. On top of everything, young adults should not be encouraged to drink. If by any means they do, it is our responsibility to make sure they don’t drive. If they do, then not only will they endanger their lives, but the lives others as well. When it comes down to bullying, threats, and violence, it our duty to report anything we see that could be dangerous. We can’t keep repeating the same mistakes. In conclusion, we need to prevent lives being lost as well as transportation problems, and as a result, we will have a better and healthier community.