Longtime rail critic Cliff Slater on Tuesday sent a letter to the Federal Transit Administration letting them know about the express bus from Kapolei to Downtown that he says provides better service than rail will.

This is the conclusion:

We do not understand why the FTA did not give the Country Express Bus and other express busservices detailed inclusion in the environmental process, especially since a) FTA fully covered these BRT services in its 2006 evaluation of Honolulu BRT, and b) Parsons Brinckerhoff planned Mayor Harris’ Regional BRT project.

Here’s a link to the full letter, which Slater shared with Inside Honolulu this morning. Will he get a response from the feds, who he’s currently suing? Time will tell.