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 One Woman Blocks eBay Shuttle, Refuses To Let It Pass In Pac Heights Diners at Jackson Fillmore (2506 Fillmore Street) in Pacific Heights on Thursday were treated to some street theater in the form of a one-woman tech bus protest. As 7x7 reports via one of
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
SF News Another Morning, Another Google Protest In The Mission [Update] Second verse, same as the first. Google employees trying to make their way to work today were slowed down by a group of protesters in the city's impossible Mission District. This time, though,
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles at Muni stops
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 Map Suggests That SF Rents Aren't As Crazy As You Think We've all read the reports: San Francisco's rents are rising impossibly quickly, people can't afford to live in San Francisco anymore, and if you lose your apartment, you may never find another one.
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 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 Protesters Block Tech Buses. Again. Protesters blocked tech buses Tuesday morning, this time at Eighth and Market Streets and at other areas close to City Hall in San Francisco. Once again, Google takes the heat for not only
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 Google Now Ferrying Employees To Work By Boat After catching plenty of backlash (both warranted and misguided) for their shuttle buses, Google is now experimenting with a new way to get workers from San Francisco to Redwood City: by skipping the
SF News S.F. Can't Profit From Shuttle Buses Monday saw an agreement between the SFMTA and the privately contracted shuttle buses that ferry tech workers up and down the Peninsula. But while the agreement marks the first government regulation of the
SF News S.F. To Start Charging Tech Company Shuttles Mayor Ed Lee and the SFMTA have reached an agreement with a coalition of tech companies whose behemoth employee shuttles have sparked protests for their use of public bus stops. Today, Lee announced
SF News Angry Protesters Block, Smash Google Bus The Gbus minus window. pic.twitter.com/qfMnzFgiLf— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) December 20, 2013 In another display of ire directed toward vehicles that haul Google employees to and from work, a smattering of
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 'This Is A City For The Right Kind Of People,' Screams (FAKE) Google Employee To Protester [Update] In a video taken at Monday morning's Google bus protest in the Mission District, SF Bay Guardian reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez captured a heated exchange* between an alleged Google employee and a protester.
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 Google Bus Piñata Attacked At Anti-Gentrification Rally A reported 30 to 40 people attended an anti-gentrification block party in the Mission on Sunday where, among other things, a Google Bus piñata was smashed to ribbons. "The scent of sage was
Arts & Entertainment Tech Workers Are Rude Jerks Who Don't Care About SF, Says Chron Columnist As someone who enjoys working from the comfort of bed, we guffaw at those who take corporate buses. But not everyone is laughing. SF Chronicle columnist Caille Millner, for example, has had it
