Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 9:43 AM
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Mountain View seizes land for reversible bus lane on Shoreline Boulevard
Original post made on May 29, 2019
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 9:43 AM
Comments (8)
a resident of Old Mountain View
on May 29, 2019 at 2:47 pm
Bruce Karney is a registered user.
Thumbs up for this innovative approach to dealing with the Shoreline Boulevard bottleneck!
a resident of Rex Manor
on May 29, 2019 at 8:23 pm
Doesn't Santa Clara have reversable lanes near their downtown?
a resident of Sylvan Park
on May 30, 2019 at 1:11 am
@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.
a resident of Jackson Park
on May 30, 2019 at 9:05 am
Dan Waylonis is a registered user.
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.
a resident of another community
on May 30, 2019 at 12:48 pm
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?
a resident of Sylvan Park
on May 30, 2019 at 3:12 pm
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
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on May 30, 2019 at 6:40 pm
Kling-Kling Bird is a registered user.
$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.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Jun 2, 2019 at 3:03 pm
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.
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