Alternatively, leave it alone. Self driving EVs and other vehicles will be available well before the planning has been signed off for this costly and unnecessary project.

This project continues to lumber forward despite drastic changes in commute patterns in our post-pandemic world. Even as it was originally conceived almost 10 years ago, it was just one part of a multi-pronged approach to move more people in and out of North Bayshore. Two other important pieces were mass transit to use the bus lane, and a commuter population to ride said mass transit. Both of those pieces are now in serious jeopardy. Most people who don't drive to North Bayshore use private shuttle buses which use Highway 101. Those buses would not be able to take advantage of the Reversible Bus Lane which has limited entry and exit points. Some people do take Caltrain or VTA Light Rail to the Transit Center, but ridership on Caltrain is still only about one third of what it used to be, and Caltrain and other mass transit agencies are struggling. The idea that large numbers of commuters will take mass transit to the Transit Center and then be ferried to North Bayshore via the Reversible Bus Lane was only an idea 10 years ago and is looking even less likely now. By itself the Reversible Bus Lane is worse than useless because it will take valuable signal time away from Shoreline Blvd. and the freeway off-ramps, thus exacerbating congestion. In the evening, the Reversible Bus Lane will do little to alleviate the congestion which occurs north of where the bus lane ends at Pear Ave. With the projected design and construction time of just a couple more years but a cost of tens of millions of dollars, doesn't it make sense to put this project on hold until it is clear that it will serve a useful purpose?

The plan is a waste of money. Over many years, I’ve learned that, sadly, people in this area don’t believe in transit, and in particular, “they don’t take buses.” Save your money, Mountain View.

Self-driving EVs may solve several problems, but traffic is not one of them.

Maybe the way to get people to take buses is to make them not suck? Like, by not having to wait in a huge line of (personal) self-driving EVs?

Wondering how much of these added delays and costs were caused by Council's decision to cancel a contract when it decided to not extend the turning lanes in 2021 in order to save some trees...some of whom just died anyways :(.

It's also frustrating that some of the added costs are covered by the Shoreline Tax District... all money that could (should?) otherwise flow to our local school districts :(

The bus lane would have been delayed even if City Council hadn't balked at tree removals. A few months after that, Public Works revealed that locating underground utilities, i.e. "potholing", had been botched and rendered the original design infeasible. Thus, the bus lane looked like a chicken with its head cut off even
with a project manager on board. Sewing a new head on it may not make any difference.

Footnotes: (1) justification for the double left turn pockets at Middlefield which would have forced tree removals was based on a flagrantly fake traffic forecast; (2) shortly after Council voted the turn pockets down, and before the potholing fiasco became public, DPW cut down two towering redwoods outside 883 Shoreline, which were also marked for destruction to make room for the bus lane and associated so-called improvements.

If you enjoy this kind of slapstick, wait till you see the Autonomous Guideway Transit System.