SBCOG

Rideshare, Vanpool, and Bike

Carpool and vanpool matching, park-and-ride lots, and the Guaranteed Ride Home program, all built around the one commute this county shares: Highway 25 to Gilroy.

San Benito Rideshare participants standing beside a white Vanpool passenger van — San Benito Rideshare's own Vanpool program, photographed with one of the passenger vans used for shared commutes. Agency-published image.

Carpool and vanpool matching

Share the drive to Gilroy or beyond

SBCOG matches commuters into carpools and vanpools for the Highway 25 corridor, the same route the Intercounty bus runs. Riding with others means fewer cars making the same trip and a cost split between everyone in the vehicle instead of carried by one driver alone.

Park-and-ride lots

Carpools and vanpools meet at park-and-ride lots along the corridor, so a commute can start with a short drive instead of the full trip to Gilroy.

Guaranteed Ride Home

The Guaranteed Ride Home program is there for the day something changes and a carpool or vanpool rider needs to get home without the car they usually share.

Bicycling and Safe Routes to School

Getting around without a car

SBCOG's bicycle and pedestrian planning and its Safe Routes to School work cover the shorter trips around Hollister and San Juan Bautista that a highway commute program does not: the ride or walk to school, and the everyday trips that never touch Highway 25 at all.

Comparing the trip

Hollister to Gilroy, by mode

The Intercounty bus is the only mode here with a published fare and a published time. The others depend on the driver, the group, or the vanpool's own arrangement, so those rows describe how the trip works rather than a number.

Hollister to Gilroy, driving alone, carpool, vanpool, and the Intercounty bus
Compare	Driving alone	Carpool	Vanpool	Intercounty bus
Cost	Paid entirely by the driver	Split between the riders in the car	Split between the riders in the van	$2.00 one way
Travel time	No fixed schedule	No fixed schedule	Set by the vanpool's own schedule	40 to 60 minutes, Vets Park to the Gilroy Caltrain station
Parking at the Gilroy end	Driver parks and pays for parking alone	Parking cost split between riders	Parks together in a park-and-ride lot	None needed; the bus continues to the Caltrain station
Guaranteed Ride Home	Not applicable	Available to enrolled carpool riders	Available to enrolled vanpool riders	Not applicable

Bus fare is effective August 2021. Bus travel time is derived from the Intercounty timetable effective July 1, 2026.