There is a Rapid bus service along El Camino Real. It's the 522 line. They put better vehicles on this route about a year ago. VTA could improve this service by requiring clipper cards for its use, and permitted all door boarding. All door boarding would reduce the time at each stop and speed up the travel. In Mountain View at least one additional stop should be added. 522 now stops at the Whole Foods Market on El Camino Real and at Castro Street. It should also stop at El Monte one one side of El Camino and Escuela on the other. it's pretty ridiculous not to stop at this cross roads. More people would ride 522 if it did stop here.

The problem is that small improvements like this don't really take any funds at all. Nothing to spend. So VTA just ignores improvements.

Great to see it dead... but don't forget our turncoat Ken Rosenberg, who campaigned saying he was against it, but sold us out and made Mountain View one of the few cities to support it. Thankfully everyone else had the sense to reject it.

VOTE AGAINST KEN ROSENBERG. Unless you like an idiot for a leader.

It was a horrible idea and thank goodness it met its demise. Too bad not earlier and before money was wasted on it. There are better way to improve traffic that doesn't inconvenience most everyone.

There is a God! Amen!

Good!

And get that bum KEN ROSENBERG out of there!

Do not believe "VTA officials." They lie. They can change course at any moment.

Thank goodness logical brains began to get involved. VTA?....yah, no.

It is immediately obvious that dedicating a lane of El Camino to busses is a terrible idea. Naturally, since this is California, we can't get to the obvious result without wasting ten million dollars.

Best local news of 2018 thus far!!!

@Nick


I wouldn't call Ken Rosenberg an idiot. He's quite smart actually.

He is also an exceptionally gifted liar of the bald-faced variety who should be voted out of office at the earliest convenience in return for his perfidiousness.

VTA can do another transit study where they demolish the businesses along El Camino Real and add another lane. The lane is deeply necessary since it takes me about 20 minutes to get from my garage in Los Altos near San Antonio to the Milk Pail. I doubt that Mountain View politicians have the fresh perspective to approve a bold decision like mine.

Do NOT forget Pat Showalter ALSO favored sacrificing two lanes of auto traffic to the VTA. She stood right at my front door during the election and said she was absolutely opposed to the lane grab - then turned on the voters and said she was for it after she was elected. Her betrayal of the voters should NOT be forgotten if she ever dares to run for re-election.

Oh... and to "Las Altan" - Of course we should demolish businesses along El Camino, just so you can get to the Milk Pail more conveniently. (I'd tell you what you can do with your "bold decision", but this is a family forum.)

Good. news. Too bad they had to waste $10M on something everybdy knew wouldn't work....

But that's the problem with many civil servants. It's not about actual improvement, it's about maintaining the viability of their jobs until they can retire.

Yeah, don't forget Madame Showalter was also part of the flip flopping here. She is right up there with Ken. First she was against it, then she was for it. Like her position on rent control...first she was against it, then admits to signing the petition to put that V on the ballot....shameful.

Great. Common sense prevails --- for the time being.

"The studies and analysis of traffic patterns could still be useful for future improvements along El Camino". In other words, they're not done yet but merely figuring up some other scheme to mess up non-bus vehicular traffic on El Camino Real. After all, these bureaucrats' jobs are at stake. "Gotta do something --- anything!!!"

Maybe they should start with something simple, like wide-outs so buses can stop without impeding traffic in the 1st lane? Also they should consider designating streets parallel to El Camino Real as preferred bike routes to keep bicycles off of El Camino Real, so that riders will be a lot safer?

There are few riders on ECR through Mountain View, but the tinted windows must have been designed to make this less evident from the outside. Sneaky VTA.

Thank goodness the bus lanes wont happen but it's too bad our elected leaders did not listen to the people they represent. Showalter and Rosenberg are just selling our city to Google. Giving them all the office space, housing, selling out El Camino Real. We need more leaders like Abe-Koga, Matichak, McAlister who will stand up for common sense, good government, and US. This November, lets replace Pat and Ken with people who think for US and not Google.

I see in today's Mercury news that $10.5 million was spent on "traffic studies" before project acceptance by all affected communities. Unbelievable waste of people's money for a "bus to nowhere", but consistent with high speed rail consumption of many more dollars.

Rosenburg, Showalter and Michael Kasperzak voted to support bus-only lanes on El Camino. Margaret Abe-Koda (and another woman council member whose name escapes me) supported the project prevously. It is not gone. Just delayed. The GRAND BOULEVARD INITIATIVE involves transforming El Camino from San Jose to San Francisco including mass transit.