Tonight, the City of Mountain View is holding a community meeting on the project to add a center-running reversible bus lane on Shoreline Boulevard between Middlefield Road and Plymouth Street. The lane would run in the median and not replace any existing vehicle lanes.
The goal of the project is to speed buses and shuttles along Shoreline Boulevard, improving the connection to the Mountain View transit center and making transit commutes more time-competitive.
The project was one of the key recommendations from the Shoreline Corridor Plan, as part of a comprehensive improvements intended to achieve Mountain View’s ambitious goal to reduce solo driving to North Bayshore to 45%.  Eventually, the bus lane is expected to be replaced by a higher capacity transit link.
If you have questions or comments, come to the meeting if you can, or send a note to Andy Chang, Senior Civil Engineer, andy.change@mountainview.gov.
The meeting will be held at Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Avenue, from 6pm to 7:30pm.
Are there plans to increase transit service along with the bus lane?
What is the expected transit link?
What is screenshot trying to show or not show?
I can’t tell the distance because blurry and that was not included in the article for some reason.
Why did you put the bike time and not the drive time during rush hour for the proper context.
Biking is not a option for everyone and the full distance a rider may be going may not be reasonably likeable, I don’t know.
How much is this expected to cost? How might it impact Caltrain or traffic?
How does it fix the bus problem… I presume there are no stopped between the highlighted poits, so what is the time saved and transit connections to be made?
How will it be paid for?
Perhaps this post can be updated after the meeting?
Shoreline is used today corporate shuttles, city shuttles, and VTA buses, and these vehicles would use the lane. The screenshot is trying to show a map where the section of bus lane would go.
Absolutely, bikes don’t work for everyone – but Google’s data shows that 20% of their employees who live within 5 miles bike *today*. Even if cycling doesn’t work for all, it can still help a notable share of commuters and takes cars off the road.
This is a median lane, it doesn’t reduce any existing lanes.
The project is fully funded, out of impact fees from development. The cost is $26.5Million. The project is scheduled to have design and engineering done by the Summer of 2017. It will then take 2 years to construct so should be done by the Summer of 2019. Thanks to Lisa Matchak of the MV Environmental Planning Commission for some of this info.
When I wrote the post it wasn’t rush hour, so it didn’t show the traffic jam delay – will try to capture that 🙂
There are employer and community/TMA shuttles that are pretty frequent at peak hours. The community & TMA shuttles are open to the public. VTA service is infrequent and may even get cut as part of VTA’s next network re-engineering.