[zhte415]

> Mountain View Caltrain to Googleplex is about 45 minutes by bus...it's about 5 minutes by car and 15ish by bike

This is crazy. Why not set up a fleet of private busses to turn 45 mins to 5 mins, some app to subscribe the private bus for the day. Is SV not innovative enough to do this? Does it do it?

[nostrademons]

Hmm, as of the beginning of this year, that has apparently happened:

http://mvgo.org/east-bayshore-route.html

Situation is a little better - 15 min from Caltrain to Google - but the main problem is the number of stops. It also services LinkedIn, the movie theater, Microsoft, smaller startups on Terra Bella, and 3 Google stops. That's the general problem with short-hop bus shuttles; they spend more time picking up and dropping off passengers than driving. The corporate shuttles tend to work because they have a single start and end point.