Henry Pan wrote:

The idea that corporations should chip in for bus routes used primarily by their own employees is not confined to Santa Clara County. In 2016, Amazon opened a fulfillment center in an industrial park in Shakopee, Minnesota, about 16 miles southwest of Minneapolis. To get workers, who are mostly Somali immigrants, to work, the company partnered with the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority to create Route 495, which runs express between a transit station in Shakopee and the Mall of America, connecting to two rapid transit routes serving Minneapolis along the way. Amazon pays for the last mile solution: about five trips per day extending from the transit station to their front door, about two miles apart.

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Luther Wynder, who runs MVTA, finds public-private partnerships valuable, having handled them during his tenure at the Delaware Transit Corporation. Not only does MVTA get more riders riding their buses, employers are also able to get more workers, and people who might need to go somewhere along the route can come along for the ride. “Our first thing we did was, how do we start working with large employers to design and put services out there that will be beneficial to them, but also have them invest in those services that are open to the public, so that they feel they have some skin in the game?” Wynder said about getting corporations to pay for transit service. “Public-private partnerships are very near and dear to me, because I think we’re all in this together.”