SF News Teamsters to Zuckerberg: 'Let Shuttle Drivers Unionize' Fast on the heels of this story last week about the long hours and miserable lives of corporate shuttle bus drivers, the Teamsters decided to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg himself in a
SF News Muni To 'Charge Restitution' To Tech Bus That Halted J-Church Service "The SFMTA is not regulating shuttle routing," the transit agency announced when they kicked off their 18-month-long pilot program allowing tech buses to use Muni stops. Wonder if they regretted that decision when,
SF News Tech Bus Bottoms Out, Blocks J Train In Both Directions at 21st Street Just in case you needed a little schadenfreude to kick off your Tuesday: A tipster sent in these photos of a tech bus that became stuck at 21st and Chattanooga this morning as
SF News Today Is The First Official Day Tech Buses Share Muni Stops, And There's Already A Protest The pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (a.k.a. "Google Buses") to share a select number of Muni stops, and to pay for the privilege, begins today, and we can expect complaints
SF News Map Shows What Muni Stops Will Be Shared With Tech Shuttles Though the pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (AKA "Google Buses") to share Muni stops got its final OK in April, the SFMTA has moved in its own considered pace to figure out
SF News Group Files Suit Against City Over Google Buses A group of anti-gentrification and transit activist filed suit today in San Francisco Superior Court hoping to kill the City-approved "Commuter Shuttle Pilot Program," otherwise known as Muni's Google Bus Compromise, which was
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Corporate Shuttle Roadkill' Local bluegrass musician and banjo teacher Marilyn Vogel has penned a little ditty about the Google buses (and Genentech buses and Apple buses and Facebook buses, etc.), and even though you might not
SF News Protestors Block Tech Shuttles With Actual Barf RT @revscript: 3 #techbus blockaded at MacArthur Bart, police on scene #googlebus pic.twitter.com/M46aczU3Q5— Casey Aldridge (@CaseyJAldridge) April 2, 2014 Taking a cue from Lady Gaga's latest performance piece/Doritos product
SF News Clown Protestors Block Google Shuttle With Colorful Dance Numbers This morning at the now-infamous corner of 24th and Valencia Streets, a group of colorful protestors dressed in clown suits again blocked a Google Shuttle bus on its morning commute. According to Chronicle
SF News Google Will Cover Two Years Of Free Muni For Low Income Youth Hailed as one of the largest private contributions to city services in San Francisco's history, Google has agreed to donate $6.8 million to fund the Free Muni for Low Income Youth pilot
SF News Plan To Brighten Up Corporate Shuttle Bus Backfires, Pisses Off Mission Artists A plan from hyperlocal neighborhood news source/UC Berkeley J-School project Mission Local to brighten up the district and "solve the beauty problem" by decorating a corporate shuttle bus with the work of
SF News Protesters Blockade Single Google Employee's Commute In Berkeley In a further muddying of the anti-gentrification, anti-eviction message surrounding local blockades of corporate shuttles, a group of protesters yesterday descended on the Berkeley home of a single Google X developer, and "chose
SF News Live From Today's Corporate Shuttle Hearing At S.F. City Hall [Updates] As promised, we're live at San Francisco City Hall, where the city's Municipal Transportation Agency will vote this afternoon on a proposal to allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni buses.
SF News Leaked Google Memo Tells Employees How To Feel About Their Buses Later today the seven member board of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will weigh in on a proposal that will allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni vehicles. In preparation
SF News Google Buses Reportedly Being Watched By Security Guards As the corporate shuttle backlash turns from protest to street theater to actual violence, Google has apparently sent out an extra set of eyes to watch over employees as they catch their buses
SF News Fake Google Employee Was An Actor, Union Organizer, And Occupy Mainstay [Updated] The man seen on an already-viral video posted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been identified as Max Bell Alper, a self-proclaimed "organizer and artist" with the Making Change Media Collective and
SF News UC Berkeley J-School And Genentech Partner For Something Totally Ethical No problem here, folks. Just Mission Local (a popular neighborhood blog run by the UC system's graduate school of journalism at UC Berkeley) and Genentech getting cozy to bedazzle private buses. Why? Because
SF News Alamo Square Neighbors Freed From Tour Bus Oppression During a meeting yesterday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board of directors voted 5-0 to ban large tour buses from the postcard vistas surrounding Alamo Square Park. Starting next month, the neighbors
SF News Muni Caves to Corporate Shuttle Bus Pressure In an effort to appear that they have any control whatsoever over the growing swarm of corporate shuttle buses clogging neighborhood streets and bogarting their bus stops, the SFMTA has proposed a new
SF News Startup Hopes To Bring Corporate Shuttle Luxury To Pesky Muni Commutes While the corporate shuttles of Silicon Valley tech companies have been blamed for everything from blocking traffic, to gentrification and increased tech worker productivity, Muni's reputation still fares far worse thanks to overcrowding,
SF News Shuttle-freude: Genentech Bus Accident Closes Four Lanes Of Divisadero [PHOTO] Around 7:20 a.m. Friday morning, a corporate shuttle for Genentech managed to not only make its own riders late for work, but probably a few other innocent commuters as well. Local
SF News 'New York Magazine' Explores the Fascinating World of S.F.'s Corporate Shuttle Buses The vast network of corporate shuttle buses that are clogging our streets and occasionally getting in the way of Muni buses is now a topic of discussion for New Yorkers. A New York
SF News Local Man Flips Out On Facebook Shuttle Driver, Yells at Him To Get Out Of Muni Stop As we've discussed before, there is a quiet war happening every day between our very own Muni buses and those corporate shuttles from Facebook, Google, Genentech and the like which enjoy stopping in
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Strict Regulations For Corporate Shuttles The corporate shuttle services that run Google, Facebook and other tech company employees up and down the peninsula in their WiFi-enabled coaches have started getting increased scrutiny from City Hall. The buses, which
