http://news.yahoo.com/google-bus-blocked-san-francisco-gentrification-protest-004441039--sector.html
here's the thing , SF has for years been plagued with parking issues, has been a haven for those who support a green economy (mass transit is a part of that) Google and some other tech companies (which SF lured to their areas to start with) have started using busses to collect their employees for work. (1 bus versus 44 cars here on a large scale) , now the folks there in the bay city have rebelled citing the affluent workers who labor at these tech companies are making their cost of living rise. this bus thing is essentially the "poster child" for this growing irritation against the folks who have gotten work at these places and are apparently making a lot of money.
from what I understand these folks who are picketing are claiming that the "google busses" are clogging the public bus stops and since they
continued from above (damned interweb)
the "protesters" have decided that since the busses that pick up these workers are doing so at public bus stops that Google and the others who are doing so should be required to pay $500 mil annually for the right to use these stops, this is to be paid to the city government.
personally I laughed til I had tears at this.
here's the thing , SF has for years been plagued with parking issues, has been a haven for those who support a green economy (mass transit is a part of that) Google and some other tech companies (which SF lured to their areas to start with) have started using busses to collect their employees for work. (1 bus versus 44 cars here on a large scale) , now the folks there in the bay city have rebelled citing the affluent workers who labor at these tech companies are making their cost of living rise. this bus thing is essentially the "poster child" for this growing irritation against the folks who have gotten work at these places and are apparently making a lot of money.
from what I understand these folks who are picketing are claiming that the "google busses" are clogging the public bus stops and since they
continued from above (damned interweb)
the "protesters" have decided that since the busses that pick up these workers are doing so at public bus stops that Google and the others who are doing so should be required to pay $500 mil annually for the right to use these stops, this is to be paid to the city government.
personally I laughed til I had tears at this.
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