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- Google_bus_protests abstract "In late 2013, San Francisco Bay Area activists with Heart of the City began protesting the use of shuttle buses by Google and other tech companies to ferry employees from their homes in San Francisco and Oakland to corporate campuses in Silicon Valley, about 40 miles away. This sparked other groups in Oakland and even Seattle to protest private tech commuter buses in their areas.Protesters viewed the buses as symbols of gentrification and displacement in a city where the rapid growth of the tech sector has driven up housing prices. Activists also opposed the unpaid use of public bus stops by private companies, which transit officials said leads to delays and congestion. In a number of incidents, protestors blocked the tech company's buses from leaving the stops. In one incident in Oakland a protestor broke a window of one bus and slashed the tires of another. And in another incident, someone impersonated a Google employee and only was later revealed to be a protest participant.One group involved in the bus protests in Oakland, called The Counterforce, also unfurled a banner outside the house of an engineer who works on Google's driverless car project and distributed leaflets accusing the engineer of "building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation".On January 21, 2014, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency imposed a $1 fee per private shuttle per stop on corporations who have been illegally using public bus zones for years, which should carry a fine of $271 each time they stop in MUNI zones. This fee, which is expected to raise $1.5 million a year to cover the cost of implementing the program, was the largest the agency could impose without a vote from San Francisco residents. Emails reveal "handshake" agreements between Google and the city agency, where Google asked them to waive the few fines they've received for illegally using public infrastructure. In February after multiple protests and mounting public pressure, Google donated $6.8 million to the transit agency to provide free public transit for low-income children in San Francisco for only two years, though activists note that they actually owe $10.6 million in fines per year for using public bus zones illegally. On February 5th 2014, Alexandra Goldman with UC Berkeley City Planning released details of her research on the "shuttle effect" stating that rents rise 20% around Google bus stops.On March 31st, 2014, tech-advocacy group sf.citi, led by Ron Conway, angel investor in Google and other tech companies, released a statement of support for Muni's pilot program.".
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- Google_bus_protests subject Category:2013_protests.
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- Google_bus_protests subject Category:Bus_transportation_in_California.
- Google_bus_protests subject Category:Google.
- Google_bus_protests subject Category:Protests_in_the_United_States.
- Google_bus_protests comment "In late 2013, San Francisco Bay Area activists with Heart of the City began protesting the use of shuttle buses by Google and other tech companies to ferry employees from their homes in San Francisco and Oakland to corporate campuses in Silicon Valley, about 40 miles away.".
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