This is a letter to the Island Transit folks, so listen up. You are in the middle of a classic business mistake, you are forgetting what business you are in. Your job is to move self-loading cargo from point A to point B safely and efficiently.

It is not your job to save a bunch of weeds in a pasture, it is not your job to commit more economic suicide by taking more taxpaying land off the tax rolls, it is not your job to design highways and roads, it is not your job to chase tourists or bicyclists, it is not your job to build non-transportation structures other than bus route information/shelter stations.

Are you getting the drift here? All these tasks have any number of agencies and groups attending to them, most of which are equal or better at wasting money than you are.

As a thoroughly mad taxpayer, I want our million dollars back, and I think we need a top-down house cleaning. If you have people sitting around coming up with this garbage, they need to go. In case you might have missed it the county and the state are broke, so here is a million dallars we can save right off the top.

As far as your designated job of people moving with safety and efficiency, it appears you are about 50 percent there, at least I don’t know of anybody you’ve killed or maimed, but your efficiency leave much to be desired. I think you should remember you are in the people moving business and should spend more time on bus issues and less on empire building.

Adding this million dollars into your budget means the price per “free” ticket will increase to over $7 however, it does absolutely 100 percent of nothing to improve bus service.

Rick Kiser
Oak Harbor