SF News Photo: Tech Shuttle Blocks J-Church Train While Driver Grabs Coffee Yes, that's a tech shuttle bus, on an unapproved route, stopping so the driver can get coffee, blocking a Muni train... #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #TheWayWeLiveNow #grrrrrr A post shared by Ted (@eyeofted) on Aug
SF News Google Bus Driver Hits And Kills Pedestrian In Saratoga The driver of a Google bus struck and killed a pedestrian Tuesday evening as she crossed a street in Saratoga near West Valley College. KRON 4 reports that the bus is owned by
SF News To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor To ensure that tech shuttles can continue to roll along, business-as-usual, companies such as Salesforce and Y Combinator are among more than 24 contributors to a political action committee backing moderate candidates for
SF News 34,000 Passengers Per Day: Bay Area Shuttle Buses, By The Numbers Reactions to the plenitude of shuttle buses seen daily on the streets of San Francisco tend toward the qualitative. Convenient! Practical! Corporate! Evil! Instead, a data set submitted by local shuttle bus operators
SF News Shuttle Bus Operator Bauer's Adding 30 Vehicles To SF Fleet Despite Contested Muni Stop Permit Shuttle Bus operator Bauer's Intelligent Transportation, whose black, monolithic motor coaches carry employees from clients like Cisco, Zynga, and Electronic Arts, plans to add 30 vehicles to its already sizable fleet, expanding service
SF News [Update] Facebook Eyes San Francisco Office, Maybe Menlo Park-based Facebook is considering a major expansion into San Francisco barely a month after reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would not bow to employee pressure to do just that. According to three
SF News More Facebook Employees Commuting By Car And Some Blame Tech Shuttle Regulations With the tech shuttle pilot program a permanent fixture on San Francisco streets since February of this year, and with a corresponding decrease in protests, we might expect the number of tech employees
SF News Map: Hundreds Of Violations Committed By Tech Shuttles Per Year It's hard out there for a tech bus. Or so it would seem, with an exhaustive report from NBC Bay Area revealing that the top companies responsible for shuttling workers to and from
SF News Take An Overnight SF-to-LA Trip Aboard This Sleeper Pod Bus For Under $50 One of the most useful innovations of the app era might not even be an app, but instead a converted big rig filled with sleeping pods. While California's high-speed rail construction won't be
SF News Apple Shuttle Catches Fire During Morning Commute, Backs Up I-280 Traffic Advisory: Bus fire blocks multiple southbound lanes on I-280 at Sand Hill Road pic.twitter.com/qeCB2vYtbj— Palo Alto Weekly (@paloaltoweekly) April 6, 2016 Today started off hot for 15 southbound commuters,
SF News Corporate Shuttles Avoid Environmental Appeal, Stops Capped At Current Number Like a contemporary cable car, the corporate tech shuttle — a symbol of San Francisco but with slightly different connotations — has again been preserved. The Chronicle reports that a political deal was finalized to
SF News Tech Shuttle Protest Blockades 24th Street Activists hold signs in front of tech shuttle buses that read "Save Our Homes" in protest of high rents in SF. pic.twitter.com/QflNcewYM8— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 9, 2016 A
SF News [Update] Muni Antenna Tears Hole In Tech Shuttle Downtown An electric Muni bus antenna collided with the window of what appears to be a tech shuttle downtown, though which vehicle may have been at fault remains unclear. From the photo above, it
SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News Chronicle Declares Anti-Tech Protest Movement Dead Just a year after the streets of SF were abuzz with near weekly protests blocking tech shuttle bus routes, the Chronicle is ringing the death knell for the anti-tech movement as a whole.
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Chase 'Google Grinch' Jack Halprin "Hit the road Jack," was the sung refrain this morning as protesters once again targeted, and chased, Google lawyer and local landlord Jack Halprin. At 6:30 a.m. according to reports from
SF News Tech Shuttle Vandalized During Post-Game Celebrations; Another Got Stuck Due To Toilet Paper Cleanup Effort Amidst the mayhem of last night following the World Series win, some people were just trying to get home from work on the Peninsula in a company-sponsored shuttle bus. At least one bus,
SF News If SF Becomes A City For The Rich, Where Will Their Employees Live? A part of a program on America's increasing urbanization, Huffington Post Live spoke with Gen Fujioka, the public policy manager at the Chinatown Community Development Center, on how " increasing urbanization in cities like
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 Report: Tech Shuttle Drivers Have Pretty Miserable Lives No big surprise here, but the drivers piloting the army of tech-company shuttles ferrying people between San Francisco and Silicon Valley are largely underpaid and overworked, as the Chronicle reports. And while the
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
