I think this is going to be a great service. I'm really look forward to riding it myself.

The sentence "Typical wait times range from 15 to 33 minutes for morning shuttles." is almost certainly incorrect. If the shuttles are coordinated with the 13 northbound and 13 southbound trains that arrive between 6:30 and 10:30 AM, typical wait times to board will probably be just a few minutes. Perhaps the author meant that busses will leave the station every 15 to 33 minutes, which is a very different thing.

It would be nice to know how the number of seats on the new busses (20/bus x 36 departures/day = 720) compare to the number of seats currently available on the shuttles run by the various local companies. I hope it's a substantial increase over the status quo.

I'm confused, is this a collaborative employee shuttle system to replace all those private busses? Or is this in addition to the private busses run by each company?

Why gas-powered instead of hybrid or electric?

Anything that gets people out of their solo-occupant cars is great. Apparently we have council to thank for mandating this?

This is wonderful progress toward addressing the "last mile" issue, which will certainly lead more commuters to choose transit options over cars to get to work.

It is particularly gratifying to me that the TMA collaborated with a Mountain View-based non-profit, the Community School of Music and Arts, on the logo contest. Grassroots community engagement and collaboration in innovative efforts like this will help us to better tackle the challenges and opportunities in our region.

Kathy Thibodeaux
Board Chair, Community School of Music and Arts

The shuttle time table looks completely unrealistic. There is no way you can get from Google's Crittenden buildings to the train station in 13 minutes with 5 stops between in 6pm traffic. That is a 30 min trip.

Have they not tried driving these routes???

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Google is just trying to influence the council & city staff to approve as much office development as possible. Livability in our fair city is the true cost of "free".

You won't have to provide any shuttles for North Bayshore residents once we let property owners build housing there. :-)

Doesn't light rail already go from downtown to Ellis Street?
Is this designed to kill light rail?

I'm at a point where anything with "GOOGLE" attached to it raises suspicion and skepticism about hidden agenda and all sorts of strings attached to their "free" gifts to MV.
"Exploitive" intent somehow is a key word in all their dealings.