Excellent piece. Thank you for sharing it.

Typical bureaucratic excessive spending. It may be that BRT offers some benefits, but they will be swamped by wasteful spending on special interest groups. We need better government , and if not we should severely limit their ability to tax and spend. If BRT is such a good idea, let the private sector provide the service.

Actually, most agree that BRT is not such a good idea, but they are trying to force it down everyone's throats, but I agree, typical bureaucracy.

I'm not going to cast a Yes vote to give them any money for a while. not until they clean house internally. They are a bad transit agency on a NATIONAL level, but oh don't they have plenty of well paid upper and middle managers.

I am so happy that the bus will be fast on el Camino. Too many rude cars blocking the buses from getting thru. Transit that shares lanes with cars is stupid. Glad that mistake is being fixed.

Businesses are slowly figuring out that taking lanes away from other traffic for special "rapid transit" buses with few stops would NOT bring them cudtomers and would further crowd the remaining lanes so that many potential customers would avoid using the street or getting stuck stopping in the area. But if voters are so gullible that they allow passage of the VTA's planned county-wide sales tax increase measure next year, the VTA will resume its insane, self-serving, depend-on-us mass transit agenda - including BRT bus-only lanes on El Camino.

It's like paying for someone to egg your house to a regular basis. They will never take actions to fix their internal woes until the free money spigot that comes from our own wallets gets shut off. Lets take control of who is taking money out of our wallets. Vote no to VTA funding.

Relying on a lot of unsubstantiated rhetoric to fight a project must mean that the BRT project is the correct choice for the county. It's been studied to death and the conclusion is Big Benefit / Small Cost.

Looking forward to the speedy transit on el Camino!

Want some more rhetoric? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

Well, this would make fool time #3: (1) Light Rail (2) Alum Rock Light Rail Project in a terrible mess with no end really in site and then (3) VTA comes back to the trough and says let's do this in Mountain View.

If we don't learn from our mistakes, we deserve what we get.

No no no to more wasteful extravagant overkill projects from VTA. They can do BRT the way it normally is done, which means not taking any lane out of service for more than a hours a day, using the curb, and allowing right turns and bikes in the lane at all hours.

The VTA continues to post bull on stories about it frivolous projects as if readers cannot see the con. Keep it up VTA. You will be filing a bankruptcy case in a few years.

I agree with the comment that the idiotic rhetoric from the few car-is-king that troll this forum only strengthens the case for the dedicated lane.

I was on the fence about this, but have now decided to support it. My research has shown what has been written about time and again...that there is a huge positive impact to transit with a small impact to automobile traffic.

Clearly the concerns for El Camino Real are well founded. Everyone write VTA a personal check for $1000. Then they can have a big party and spend loads on consultants to discuss the relative merits of putting speed bumps every 1/8 mile along the road, except for the private bus lane. Then all the cars will go slow and more people will ride the bus.

That's a plan. Get out your check books. Don't be stingy. Why not $5000?

Now that the light has been shown on VTA's history of failures as well as the current failure of BRT 1, it will be VERY hard for them to continue to try and fool us. BRT 1 is now as equal a failure as light rail. VTA can take a hike. They'll get nothing from my wallet.