We already have 2 commuter only Caltrain lanes that run from San Jose-Palo Alto-San Francisco and 2 commuter only Light Rail lanes that run from San Jose to Mountain View. VTA should maximize the capacity of existing North-South public transit and focus on adding East-West connections to get people to where they work and live.

VTA staff hired the consultants and selected their fellow mass transit "professionals" to support their groundless claims about traffic impacts. Whether the San Jose dominated VTA Board of Directors will vote to take lanes for buses or delay a vote until after the planned sales tax increase measure next year is just a matter of politics which nowadays is based on the influence of special interest groups. Of course, reserving lanes for an occasional bus is a waste of lane space and will create more congestion. This is not about the merits. It is mostly about the advance of the new corporate "democracy" of one dollar, one vote.

"VTA planners estimated that by 2018 more than 1,160 drivers would "divert" from solo driving on El Camino during peak traffic times."

That's totally irrelevant and misleading. Yes, if you take away two lanes and thus make for even bigger traffic jams than currently, some people will stop driving El Camino at peak times. And off-peak travel times will become much worse than currently.

But if your prime goal is to divert traffic, why not just close ALL lanes on El Camino to cars...

Taking away 2 lanes will help people who live in San Jose to commute, but it will hurt Mountain View residents who simply need to get around town. We get most of the pain but little gain, and should not allow this to happen.

The candidates who won the last election ran on platforms against BRT. They made multiple statements in the press and in interviews that they did not support BRT. Then after they were elected and without any forewarning, Rosenberg and Showalter spat in the face of the people of MV and sided with big money/big transit though the negatives to MV were obvious and plentiful.

I'm disappointed in these two specifically. Later discoveries of dark money in their campaigns only increased the disappointment. Hopefully the people of MV can return their favor in kind.

Campaign promises are never binding and are often broken.

However in this case, the "opposition" I heard from one of these candidates was more conservative. Something like "based on what people told me, I can't see supporting it." Unfortunately what people told him was a pack of lies. After seeing all the data and speaking with the unbiased and intelligent, his position changed.

Too bad he didn't vote the way you didn't. You are welcome to vote against him in the future.