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The Mountain View community shuttle will expand weekday hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. as of Jan. 3.
The expanded service comes from a new Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) grant. Weekend hours (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) will remain the same.
The $704,000 VTA grant comes to the city of Mountain View through their 2016 Measure B Innovative Transit Service Models Grant Program. The grant program supports affordable new innovative transit service models to address first/last-mile connections to transit, serving vulnerable, underserved and transit-dependent populations.
The city will provide a minimum match of $176,000 for the expansion of the community shuttle’s weekday service hours for two years. The shuttle provides free service between residential neighborhoods and key destinations in Mountain View and has 50 stops. The service began as a pilot program in 2015 through a city partnership with Google, which has committed $20 million to the service through June 2024.
For more information, call customer service at 855-730-RIDE (7433) or visit MVCommunityShuttle.com.
Great news. Should make it more practical to go downtown for dinner and catch a ride back.
This is fabulous, fabulous news! In order to get people out of cars, alternative transportation options NEED to be available. Hopefully the new hours will get some workers out of their cars during peak commute hours. Awesome!
Only wish that there was more coverage for Fri and Sat nights, to help with traffic on Castro. Would love to be able to take the shuttle to get dinner on the weekend, and leave the car at home.
Would 8 to 8 have been a better schedule?