Students can look both ways

Re “Expo Line plan meets resistance,” Oct. 21

Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth. We are going to include another section of the city in a transportation plan that can only help enhance the lives of the residents, and we have a new term, “environmental racism.” I have a suggestion. Re-educate the Dorsey High students on simple traffic safety. This isn’t just a problem at Dorsey but at schools around the city. If this is a bona fide concern, then it would make more sense to put in a few pedestrian footbridges than to raise or lower a train track.

Ricc Bieber

Northridge

The notion that high school students cannot simply check to see if traffic is coming is insulting and ridiculous. As a recent high school graduate, I vividly remember being able to swivel my head from right to left and right again when crossing the street. Another idea: Instead of Angelenos forfeiting taxpayer money to build an underground or above-ground line for these outrageous concerns, hire a crossing guard.

Quinn Sullivan

Los Angeles