Protestors Blockade Google Bus in San Francisco

[Jesus Malverde]

4. Nice..

Google is is Mountain View, California a long ways from San Francisco. These buses allow the google employee to live in San Francisco without the hassle of a commute or buying into the existing public transportation infrastructure. There is already a train that goes between san francisco and mountain view.

Rather than lobby to improve this transit link so that it would benefit all, google and many other companies have built parallel private systems for their employees.

These private transit systems in san francisco use the public bus stops impeding regular municipal bus traffic while contributing nothing to the upkeep of the public system.

If google employees had to rely on public transportation or drive themselves they would not be living here very long.