So, is this center established for political reasons, or will it actually result in improved bus service --- both more frequent scheduling and getting where I want to go without time-wasting transfers? Given their limited budget and their huge operating losses, I doubt either can happen, so it's pure politics. I am extremely worried by the phrase "optimize --- roads". Does this mean that VTA still is determined to create intractable traffic jams by robbing us of automobile lanes on El Camino Real? What incredible fools these 2nd rate, ideologically-blinded public transit bureaucrats are!

"an open-source trip planner for any combination of transit, walking, biking, park-and-ride, bike share and driving options"

I don't know about that "open-source" part but Google already provides the rest of that proposal. Now, maybe it's not a good idea for Google to be the only source for such a service, and maybe there's already plenty of alternatives, but I like the Google trip planner and haven't looked for an alternative.

VTA needs innovation, and maybe "robbing us of automobile lanes on El Camino Real" is a bad idea and maybe it's not. I think VTA already comes close to having a "private" lane just because there are so many buses on El Camino Real. I've been in London and seen "trains" of 3-6 buses following each other down the road. And VTA buses can't use only "their" lane because 522 buses have to pass 22 buses in order to be Rapid and they have to move into the auto lanes to do that. Furthermore, autos have to move into--and out of--bus lanes to pass other autos. I frankly think VTA's talk of VTA Lanes is a red herring, but can't guess what they are trying to hide.

The VTA BRT is a great project and only the NIMBY and anti-Hispanic "citizens" object to it.

Sorry, but the poor, the infirm and the elderly have the right to travel efficiently along El Camino, which hosts the highest density of housing and services.

If you don't like traffic, then stop approving commercial office space. That's where it comes from, not buses.

(Anti-bus philosophy has been used by racist organizations for a hundred years. )

River

Oak are you kidding. There is no public transportation in that area at all.











Are you kidding there is no transportation inside River Oaks. El Camino Real is the slowest way to get from Dell ave in the East side of Mountain View to the West end of Mountain View. It is faster to wind down Church St to Shoreline B.vd and then up to El Camino Real or better yet go down Evelyn to Sunnyvale to shop. I shop from Bernardo East only. Even banking and Doctors. Its a real joke and now you want to take away a lane. That is just to funny. So all of us will be taking side streets. OMG