To relieve the grinding commute drivers endure daily as they travel to and from work on the Monterey Peninsula, a new bus rapid transit project is being planned in a slightly unusual place – a railway corridor that runs parallel to Highway 1.

Dubbed the SURF!, the proposed busway is part of a regional effort to lift buses out of the bumper-to-bumper line-up that make them no faster than single-occupancy vehicles. To read the complete story written by Diana Williams for the California Association of Councils of Governments, (CALCOG), click here: SURF! story