When I went to the planning meeting for the San Mateo 101 Express Lanes project in Redwood City, these lanes _were_ seen as an investment in mass transit. The t

When I went to the planning meeting for the San Mateo 101 Express Lanes project in Redwood City, these lanes _were_ seen as an investment in mass transit. The tech shuttles will use these Express Lanes instead of sitting in mixed traffic, taking load off of the Caltrain (which, pre-pandemic, was at capacity during rush hour and needs electrification and grade separation work to run more frequent trains). Also, constituents in bay area dislike public-transit-only investments (see San Mateo's historical rejection of the BART proposal).