Why do the county councilors care about losing a seat on the C-Tran board? Two of them don’t seem to even care whether C-Tran exists or not. Councilor David Madore has indicated that he really has no interest in C-Tran (“In Our View: Send Out The Clowns — Clark County councilors turned C-Tran board meeting into a circus,” Jan. 18). Councilor Jeanne Stewart does support the bus system even though she doesn’t support light rail. Given the interest of the councilors, I think the board would do better with just one member from the county. We need people, such as Jeanne Stewart, on the board that actually support C-Tran.
Maybe what the board needs to do next is to develop a way to discipline those members that make a mockery of the board. Members have the right to disagree with each other but they should do so in a respectful manner. Having two jokers from the county disrupt the board meetings for their own entertainment is counter-productive. The board’s responsibilities for maintaining, improving, and expanding our transit system are too important to those of us that use it to allow this “circus” to continue.
Philip S. Parker
VANCOUVER
