Letter: Waiting for bus too dangerous

Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001 | 9:54 a.m.

Regarding a story in the Aug. 27 Sun, I'm not surprised somebody got injured at a bus stop shelter. They're lucky they didn't get killed.

Sometimes when I sit at a bus stop, I wonder, "If someone crashes into me and my son sitting here, will they come after me for child endangerment?"

The one on Valley View by Meadows mall near the Bennett Family YMCA seems particularly conducive to pedestrian fatherly self-doubts; especially after leaving the DOE Yucca Mountain Exhibit, one meditates, "What's my half-traffic-life? A minute and a half?"

I hope those two injured bus patrons sue CAT, the bus shelter company and the municipal traffic engineers, who all place them and the rest of us bus riders in the high-risk path of harm.

This city is the most pedestrian-hostile burg on Earth.

JAMES RICHARD LUCAS

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