Style over substance WEEKEND | 19 JUNE 2, 2017 VOLUME 25, NO. 19 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 22 City tries to unravel tangle of demands on transit hub TRAINS, CARS, BIKES AND EMERGING TECH CROWD FUTURE PLANS FOR DOWNTOWN MOUNTAIN VIEW By Mark Noack All those people-movers must somehow accommodated in the oving from point A city’s downtown transit center, to point B is a sim- with enough space left over for a Mple proposition — but weekend farmer’s market. After a designing a good system to do so roughly three-year effort, Moun- can seem downright impossible. tain View’s City Council last This is the conundrum Moun- week approved a master plan that tain View faces as it tries to tries to satisfy everyone by bring- update its downtown transit cen- ing more parking, bike lanes ter. On one hand, the city must and amenities for mass transit accommodate a web of estab- together in the same package. lished transportation modes: The transit center master plan automobiles, bicycles, trains, was approved in a 6-1 vote, with shuttles and light rail. On top of Margaret Abe-Koga opposed. COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO GIANT SEA BASS that, project planners also must City officials now intend to The San Francisco Giant Sea Bass hold underwater rugby practices sessions in Mountain View. anticipate a suite of emerging pursue this local version of technologies forecast to make Grand Central Station over the a big splash in coming years — next five years — if they can raise Rugby H2O high-speed rail, autonomous the $182 million needed to do it. vehicles and perhaps a new pod- UNUSUAL UNDERWATER CONTACT SPORT FINDS car line. See TRANSIT HUB, page 8 A HOME IN MOUNTAIN VIEW’S CITY POOLS By Mark Noack To hear its fans describe it, it’s a sport like none other. Two A banner year for re you a skilled swim- teams of six swimmers strap on mer? Do you own flip- fins and dive in the deep end El Camino Hospital Apers and a snorkel? Do of the pool to play a game that you mind competing in a swim- blends soccer, basketball and INCOME WELL ABOVE EXPECTATIONS, DESPITE suit with a sea bass plastered on traditional rugby. The catch is your backside? it’s played entirely submerged CONCERNS OVER SHAKY HEALTH CARE MARKET If you answered yes, then the — save for the vital moments Bay Area’s premier underwater when a team member needs to By Kevin Forestieri reviewed Tuesday night, May rugby club wants you! If not, surface for air. It’s a full contact 30, shows that El Camino Hos- consider joining anyway. sport that allows grabs, pulls lthough the rhetoric pital and its affiliates made $93 Mountain View’s Eagle Park and the occasional underwater MICHELLE LE among El Camino Hos- million in operating income Pool has been the training site dogpile. Linc Jepson gets ready for Apital’s top officials has — over 75 percent more than for the lone underwater rugby “It’s more fun than any other underwater rugby practice at been one of gloomy economic what was budgeted for last team on the West Coast, the sport I’ve ever played,” Katrak Rengstorff Pool on May 30. uncertainty and an adapt-or- year — through a combination San Francisco Giant Sea Bass. said. “The amount of spacial die mentality, the 2016-17 fis- of higher revenue from patient And this co-ed group is looking awareness and the number cal year is looking to be one services and lower labor costs. to grow its ranks by recruiting of tactics this game opens up try, he said. For some, it soon of the hospital’s most prosper- Along with a $59 million wind- and training new members makes it more interesting than becomes an obsession. ous years yet. Budget reports fall in investment earnings this interested in getting their feet your typical land sport.” Katrak, a 30-year-old soft- released last week show that El year, El Camino will be ending wet. After going through that brief ware engineer, first learned Camino spent less and brought the fiscal year with its highest At this point in any conversa- explainer, Katrak says he is usu- about the sport in 2014, when in more money than anticipat- annual earnings going back to tion, team president Cy Katrak ally met with wide eyes and a he struck up a conversation ed, and is expected to stow away at least 2012. is ready for the typical response: glassy stare. But about one in with a player while doing laps just over $155 million in profit. 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