Letter to the Editor: Twin Transit’s Plan Could Not Have Been Worse

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It could not have been a worse transit plan if that were the express intention. Chop the county into individual cantons. Send a bus to each. Take all passengers to the police station. Dump them all out together. Pick through the crowd for criminals? After the excitement we can be on our way, unless it’s out of the county. The other county will send a bus to get us, if it wants us.

This despite the third, fourth, fifth, ninth, 10th, and 14th amendments and section 201 of title 18 regarding fraud of honest services. Despite the Americans with Disability Act, which compels reasonable modifications whenever necessary and which I have repeatedly invoked. And despite my offer to do the Transit master’s job. An offer open continuously since, and vigorously spurned.

Since we last spoke you have lost your vote and your grants and I gained 500 votes talking to my neighbors about Twin Transit. Come May, I will be running against the mayor. Why the mayor? Because I can. We will be discussing access issues. Between then and now Twin Transit will accede to my request under 35.130 b7, or will not. Here is what you need to do to steal my thunder.

Scrap routes 12, 22 and 30 and any thought of a transit center. Implement route 1. Packwood bus meets route 1 in Napavine before and after it meets the Vancouver express in Castle Rock. Avoid railroad crossings by using Mary’s Corner.

The difference is Salem, the Oregon Coast, The Olympic Peninsula, Canada, and all points in between are connected as compared to the current situation, with Lewis County blocking the road. The difference is nearly every business in five cities is within a short walk of the same bus, under my plan. This knits the area into a single economic and labor pool. The difference is people can spend and earn money and access goods and services at these businesses. The difference is, the north end is 7 miles closer to northern counties than Centralia is. That saves them half an hour every trip and also puts a buck in Twin Transit’s hopper, coming and going, for every rider. The difference is Twin Transit would be normal.



So, we really should meet.

 

Kurtis Engle,

Centralia