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Loons vs loons: Google tries to be a good corporate citizen by providing buses at its own cost to keep cars off the road. That's not good enough for the liberal activists they just want Google employees to vacate the city because they are causing rents to go up. Of course the liberal loons don't realize that government regulation in the housing market that restricts housing supply is more to blame for rent increases than Google employees.
The luxury buses that ferry tech workers from San Francisco to Silicon Valley every morning were originally a solution to several problems: how to painlessly get workers to their jobs while being environmentally conscious while getting another two hours of work out of everyone. The Wi-Fi password on Google’s buses was Don’tBeEvil.
Recently, however, as anger at the relentless gentrification of San Francisco has grown, the buses have become the face of evil for activists. About 18,000 commuters take private shuttles in the city each day, San Francisco officials say, and then they all come back again. Not all are tech workers, but that is where the growth has been.
Microsoft has a similar bus system, and rents have been going up in Seattle. I wonder if someone here will get protests going. No way SanFran is going to outfreakshow Seattle
But yeah, those protesters are a bunch of deluded "progressives" who can't cope with the fact that it's not 1977 anymore and SF is no longer a easy place to be poor (if it ever actually was). They remind me of Southerners who still haven't gotten over Appomattox.
Good for Google for providing services like this for their employees to help reduce traffic by providing alternative transportation options. Ed should know that not all liberals are against what Google is doing, many of us are completely fine with them providing private buses.
I would love to see Google go further by providing funding to BART to provide mass transit to their facilities or at least close enough so that people can also rely on the rail transit more.
I'm pretty sure that this is a small minority of the San Francisco population. It's a very large and diverse city, people from all walks of life call it home. Not everyone there is a flaming liberal homesexual.
Anyway the protesters lack education, the increase in rent has nothing to do with Google. It has to do with increased Government regulations and tax hikes.
Anyway the protesters lack education, the increase in rent has nothing to do with Google. It has to do with increased Government regulations and tax hikes.
No, it has to do with supply and demand. Too many people want to live in San Francisco, and there isn't enough available housing. Result: high prices and low availability. Which is something that neither you nor the protesters seems to comprehend.
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