Kudos to Anne Ng for her letter [in the April 30 issue of the Cupertino Courier] for suggesting ways to make make Cupertino a more walkable city.

Ms. Ng mentioned that using a portion of the land in the Stevens Creek corridor area (Blackberry Farm, McClellan Ranch Nature Preserve, the Stocklmeir property, the Simms house) to connect McClellan Road to Stevens Creek Boulevard would be a valuable community asset. I agree.

Unlike the portions of the formal Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View—which are next to significant paving and are built with bicycle commuting in mind—the trail through the Stevens Creek Corridor can be designed to be more safe, neighbor-friendly and family-oriented than the paved portions of the formal Stevens Creek Trail.

We can truly take advantage of the rural and natural setting that the Stevens Creek riparian corridor provides.

I agree with Ms. Ng that now is a good time to turn our sights toward the design of a dirt walking trail that takes advantage of the natural riparian setting of the area and makes Cupertino a nice place to live.

—Cris Wendt, Ricardo Road


Leaders for lawfulness sometimes are madmen

Your readers embrace peace and order and law, and world leaders raise the banners of peace and order and law. But some leaders make laws of apartheid and enforce them in violent ways on their citizens and neighbors when it suits them. The slogan "No War" is fruitless when madmen raise the banner of peace and law and order. Free people should think twice about living by slogans.

—R.A. Blais, Cupertino