Sounds like a loose/loose all around.

Expanding parking when the multi-level lot is not even 1/4 filled 95% of the time? Just to accommodate peak hour usage? That means the new spaces will sit empty all the other time, as well as the always empty parking structure

How about this: Direct people to use the existing EMPTY structure and run a shuttle on a loop to the new buildings. Don't ruin things just because you can afford to.

And consider the effect of (and action to mitigate) cut-through traffic on all neighborhood streets as people try to avoid the backup on Grant (e.g., streets that run parallel from Grant/Phyllis to Miramonte)

"parallel" should be "perpendicular". Explains my C+ in geometry.

This is rich. The city council approves "five million" apartment buildings, Google crap, that brings more and more people and traffic to Mountain View. Then complains about El Camino hospital expanding their services to accommodate all these new people? Wants to charge them for traffic? You can not even get to 101 on Shoreline before 11 in the morning because of Google.

You can't make this crap up.

Physicians, Employees, and Patients should ride their bikes to El Camino Hospital rather than drive.

I know...but this is what urban planners are imposing everywhere else in Mountain View...so...

Well, only when they can go as far as they can on the express lane down the middle of El Camino

So let me get this right...this will mean more people who can turn right onto North Drive without stopping at the red light while people are in the crosswalk, create something worse than the gridlock that we already have 4 or 5 times a day, and just make life more and more miserable for neighboring residents. Maybe once and for all we should decide as a city what progress is. Is progress more traffic, noise, pollution, and jobs or is progress keeping something of the feel of the beautiful city we once lived in?

And, sorry, Solution, but it's lose, not loose. Loose is your shoe when your shoelace is untied!

We need to stop pushing centralized medicine. The idea of large hospitals is outdated.

A 10 second traffic delay in exchange for a new behavioral health building which will provide treatment for mothers suffering from postpartum depression and older adults struggling with depression while every two hours another Californian dies from suicide? I would like to think that most community members would find that a reasonable exchange.

Unfortunately it's not just about a 10 second delay. I agree that 10 seconds is very minor when compared to the health and well being of women, however I live in the area and have to commute often during the peak hours (which seems like all day)and it is stressful, frustrating, and depressing to realize that my quality of life is substantially diminishing. And don't get me started about the environmental impact.

Why not create an access to Miramonte for hospital traffic? North or South Drive could connect all the way through to Miramonte. Why does everything have flow back on Grant? It's too much traffic for that road! Even St. Francis School uses Grant to turn left and drop off students in their back entrance.

Whose private land are you volunteering for this new road that would do exactly what Cuesta does now?

Sue- I hear you. I live just off San Antonio Road and trying to get from El Camino to and from the 101 in rush hour is no picnic but I would be ok with an additional 10 seconds to help so many people who have no where else to turn. Hopefully, one of the big companies in our community will help with $ and ideas to help solve the traffic issues. It clearly is a community-wide issue.

@@ The new road could be built around existing properties. Any private land impacted would not be "volunteering" their property either, and that would have to be factored in to the total cost. Cuesta traffic uses Grant Road to access all hospital entrances. Everything ends up on Grant, including ambulances and other emergency response vehicles. At the very least there should be a Miramonte cut through for those purposes.