Thumbs up for this innovative approach to dealing with the Shoreline Boulevard bottleneck!

Doesn't Santa Clara have reversable lanes near their downtown?

@JJ
Yes, Santa Clara does. But those are for all traffic. Mountain View will be the first city to build them only for busses; so they can sit idle and unused outside of commute times.

The dreams of city planners everywhere. People are reluctant to use public transport. Busses are by far the least desirable.

Instead of this, a toll lane with congestion pricing would allow for both increased efficiency and revenue generation.

Regardless, I will miss the center divide over 101 when the star jasmine is blooming.

This is definitely worth investigating in my opinion.

It should be worth thinking about giving those who reside East of 101 access to these bus lanes too, as well as increasing bus/shuttle services to those who don't work for Google.

The other question is about what happens when there is an event at Shoreline Amphitheatre?

Most people don’t like public transit, the solution is to stop building offices and apartments. And for those of us who are fed up with the crowding to just get out of Mountain View

$4.3 million to acquire 7343 square feet of property? That works out to $25.5 million per acre. Enough to make you want to violate Town Square's "TERMS OF USE." And it won't remedy the traffic jams. Not even close.

This will make sitting in the traffic jam optional. The bus and bike alternatives will reduce the requirement to drive into north bayshore.

Traffic will still be congested but that is not the goal of this project. The goal of this project is to provide alternatives for those who rather not be part of the problem and still get to their north bayshore job.

I am sure that more people will shift to the shuttles as they discover that they can save time and stress.