From: jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli)
Subject: MtView CalTrain shuttle (Castro Station) to end Summer '93
Followup-To: ba.transportation
Summary: Have your company act NOW to ensure continued operation
Keywords: CalTrain shuttle Castro North Bayshore
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:21:58 GMT

The following is the text of a City of Mountain View Planning
Department notice posted internally by my company (Adobe)'s commute 
coordinator.

If your company is served by the CalTrain shuttle routes originating
at the Castro (Rengstorff) stop, and *especially* if you use the shuttle,
let your company know that this is a valuable service and that they
should contribute to the operating pool, especially if they have not
been doing so under the present, voluntary, arrangement.  To continue
the service, companies must come up with a pool of $20,000 (25% of the 
$80,000 yearly operating cost).

/John Ciccarelli

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City of Mountain View
Planning and Community Development Department
500 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA  94039-7540
415-903-6306, fax: 415-903-6474


NOTICE: CALTRAIN SHUTTLE TO BE DISCONTINUED IN EARLY SUMMER 1993

Under new rules established by the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers
Board, the CalTrain shuttle, which provides direct bus service from
the train station to your business, wil be discontinued in early
summer _unless businesses in the North Bayshore and Terra Bella
Areas submit an application for continued service by January 22, 1993_.
Rather than the City providing the local funding and seeking voluntary
contributions from businesses (as we have for the past two years), the
new rules require that private industry take the lead and commit the
local share.

The CalTrain shuttle carries about 130 passengers a day, but it costs
$80,000 to operate.  Private businesses will be _required_ to pay 25
percent of those costs to qualify for continued operation.

Because of their concern about the loss of this service, a group of
employee commute coordinators from five companies is preparing an
application.  We know that many, many more employees than those from
the five companies are using the shuttle.  If you want your employees
to ve served and are willing to make a financial committment or just
want information, please contact one of the following employee
transportation coordinators as quickly as possible.  Your participation
is very, very important and will improve their chances of getting 
approval to continue the service.

Acuson              Maxine Doss          694-5080
Adobe Systems       Roxanne Rasmussen    962-3979
Alza Corporation    Margaret Nalbach     494-5495
The Benham Group    Beth Brown           967-9610
Silicon Graphics    Teresa Rizzo         390-5172

Be aware that the CalTrain shuttle is an excellent way for you to help
meet your new employee ridesharing goals under the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District's new Trip Reduction Rule, approved in mid-December!

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