Dear editor,

The article in the Aug. 22 of the Comox Valley Record (Transit buses won鈥檛 stop at new hospital entrance) appears to be misleading.

Only one bus route, No. 6 Uplands, passes in front of the new hospital.

This is an hourly service that does a circle route mostly in a counterclockwise direction through the north side of Courtenay with only a couple of runs per day in the opposite direction.

That means most runs would stop across the street from the entrance to the hospital. How can there be objections to one bus an hour 鈥渄isrupting鈥� traffic flow along Lerwick Road?

What was not mentioned is that there is better, more frequent service available close to the side entrance to the hospital at the bus stop near the Comox Valley Aquatic Centre. This is the unnamed road that starts at Home Depot and connects to the North Island Campus.

The No. 3 Comox via Ryan Rd., No. 4 Comox via Comox Rd., No. 6 Uplands, No. 11 Little River, and No. 34 C to C Express routes provide frequent service with a headway seldom exceeding half-hour during the day providing service to Comox and downtown Courtenay.

Michael Zbarsky, who is charge of transit for the Comox Valley Regional District, told me that the actual walking distance from this bus stop into the new hospital is less than the distance from the bus stop on Comox Road into St. Joseph鈥檚 Hospital.

I cannot help but come to the conclusion that the planners who designed the new hospital overlooked things like convenience of transit access and providing a decent helicopter pad.

C. Olsen

Courtenay