While everyone agrees that the bus system is broken in its current state, running buses down a nature corridor next to neighborhoods, next to schools and through awkward street crossings is just about the worst idea imaginable.

I urge the county to reconsider this and urge the city to fight in the best interests of the people and oppose this. To whom it may concern, the residents of Kirkland do not want this. Leave the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail in tact as it sits. Feel free to make improvements to the pedestrian crossings but do not fill the trail with any sort of trains, buses, taxicabs or otherwise.

Do not believe the lies of contractors and corporations who will try to convince you of some new pavement, electric bus or other product that is going to make this all bearable. None of those things make it acceptable to carve out a 100-foot wide path through an environmentally sensitive area.

Here’s some advice to Kirkland: Pull out the handbook of environmental restrictions that you apply to everyone’s residential projects and apply them to this. Please do this before wasting hundreds of thousands of my tax dollars on environmental feasibility studies and then environmental mitigations in an attempt to force this project to work that no one wants.

Geordy Rostad, Kirkland