My 45 minute by car commute into Silicon Valley took about 3 hours if I did it the cheap way, less if I did it the expensive way with more hops, and each end was a tricky and bad connection.

Work wasn't interested in creating a "tech bus" (a scourge of San Francisco and Silicon Valley), which, good for them, but it did give our colleagues at Facebook etc. a commuting advantage. So more than one of us at work asked for a work shuttle between the nearest hub and work to solve the "last mile" problem, and we did eventually get one -- sadly, it didn't expand the hours that transit was available, but it did provide a direct route instead of something meandering with a lot of walking, and it did get a pretty good uptake.