Professor Campbell’s three most salient criticisms relating to student safety (as he stated in his report) are:
- The major safety issue is car-kid interactions. However, the apparent primary theme of the proposed design is separating busses and cars. There is no fundamental, compelling reason why separating cars and busses should be a top priority, since it has not been identified as the main source of risk.
- The proposed design is often used at busy airports: bus/shuttle traffic along the right curb closest to the terminal entrance, and car drop-off along a separate lane of traffic on the left (dropping off at the central median strip). What works for adult airline passengers may not work well for K-5 students.
- Overall, the proposal unfortunately represents an older (and outdated) transportation engineering model of trying to solve problems by simply adding more capacity (pavement). It is a rather coarse, expensive, over-engineered solution.

The design is in violation of state code as well as school transportation safety guidelines and I continue to advocate, as I have since seeing the Thurston design in the spring of this year, for a revised design that eliminates the need for school children to cross a lane of vehicular traffic.