Re:
"...the hospitals may have an easier time meeting their targets once Caltrain electrifies its train corridor and increases its service levels over the next two years."
Caltrain has already said it won't be increasing its service levels with electrification. It's already burning through its financial reserves and will exhaust them in two years' time without a big infusion of money or a really big jump in ridership (double current levels or more).

Planned obsolesence and a hopping craps game in a head-on collision. They knew there wouldn't be enough parking, and putting arbitrary numbers that are not based in fact, won't make employees drag to work and back home bone-weary. Giving finite numbers with bottom line fines was also a setup destined to fail. To everyone who said this was a mistake to begin with, here is your "I told you so" moment.

Hospital staff are one group that I think deserve their commutes by car. Their shifts are long and unsociable and sometimes getting home between one day's shift and the next day's shift is only a relatively short time. Most medical staff end their day really late and their working day starts early and the idea that at 11.30 pm they should ride a bike or wait for a bus/train when they could drive and get home to bed quickly is ridiculous to my mind. Their shifts start early too. Do we even have buses and trains at 5 am, or 11pm for them to use?

Judging by the number of Stanford Health hospital and clinic workers I've witnessed NOT wearing masks (perhaps 80% or so), I'd say the vast majority are not so concerned about COVID on public transit if they are not concerned at the hospital itself.

Thank heavens poor impoverished Stanford wasn't financially penalized for violating their agreements. (sarcasm)

Why does Palo Alto so consistently let big rich players like Stanford, Casti and the developer of the Edgewood Shopping Center get off without paying their fines for violating their agreements??

All the bus,shuttles,bikes,etc isn’t going to change the fact that many hospital workers are living further from their work site for affordable housing options that aren’t here. Of course they drive.....

I call it "magic carpet" planning.

I see nothing wrong with individuals commuting to work at Stanford. All I ask is for no speeding off the highways as they exit to come into Palo Alto. Politicians should not force/attempt to financially coerce employees or Stanford on this. Public transit is of very poor quality of service in California (despite being expensive and taxpayer subsidized) and impractical for most of us!