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Caltrain picks up in only one location in SF (meaning employees would need to get to CalTrain), it takes over an hour from SF to Mountain View, has no WiFi, and
by gkoberger 13y ago
Caltrain picks up in only one location in SF (meaning employees would need to get to CalTrain), it takes over an hour from SF to Mountain View, has no WiFi, and drops off about 3 miles from the Google campus[1].
For a company with no shortage of money, a shuttle makes complete sense.
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!4m17!3m13!1m1!1sMountain+View+Caltrain%2C+600+W+Evelyn+Ave%2C+Mountain+View%2C+CA+94041!1m1!1sAmphitheatre+Pkwy%2C+Mountain+View%2C+CA+94043!3m8!1m3!1d3677!2d-122.0770258!3d37.3946411!3m2!1i800!2i891!4f13.1!5m2!13m1!1e1&fid=0 https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!4m17!3m13!1m1!1sM...
(EDIT: Added 3 mile source since someone below questioned it)
- sbilstein 13y agoGoogle runs shuttles to the caltrain and it isn't three miles away from campus. Campus is huge; I see plenty of google employees on caltrain. There are 2 Caltrain stops in SF. The issue with Caltrain is that there are simply not enough trains running on it to ferry all the people who need to get to the South Bay. My ideal solution is better express routes through the city to the caltrain station and from there shuttles to the corporate campuses. We'd need some serious infrastructure improvements to the caltrain however. I wish companies were more willing to spend their lobbying money on pushing politicians to commit to infrastructure improvements that could benefit a broader stripe of the population then just their employees.