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Drivers voted 43-28 to join \u003ca href=\"http://www.teamsters853.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Teamsters Local 853\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demaurae Houston says he was one of the drivers to vote yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The] average person on that bus is probably making about $122,000 minimum. And they’re not paying us half of that. So it’s not fair. It’s really not fair,\" Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other drivers are more concerned with working split shifts. Drivers shuttle employees to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, Berkeley and other locales, sit around for five or six hours during the day, then drive workers back home in the evening. The drivers are not paid for that downtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook drivers are the first of the region’s pervasive shuttle buses carrying technology workers to unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a great day for these employees and for labor and the middle class,\" said Teamsters organizer Rodney Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook's shuttle bus contractor, Loop Transportation, said in a statement that it is committed to increasing drivers' hourly pay and making drivers comfortable during split shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Loop Transportation respects the election results and the decision of our drivers who service Facebook. Even though we don’t feel that our drivers’ interests are best served by union representation, our drivers have spoken and we will now begin the negotiation process.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Loop Transportation says that drivers make between $17 and $25 an hour, \"among the highest in the commuter bus industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times reported in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/business/facebooks-bus-drivers-seek-union.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">early October\u003c/a> that the Teamsters are also hoping to unionize drivers for Google, Apple and other Silicon Valley companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler, Alex Helmick and Lisa Pickoff-White contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10349710/facebook-bus-drivers-unionize","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18549"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_5384"],"featImg":"news_10349714","label":"news_6944"},"news_143653":{"type":"posts","id":"news_143653","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"143653","score":null,"sort":[1406937200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfmta-starts-commuter-shuttle-pilot-program","title":"SFMTA Starts Commuter Shuttle Pilot Program","publishDate":1406937200,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11371_photo.JPG-alt_136.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-143658 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11371_photo.JPG-alt_136-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A commuter shuttle headed to Google's Mountain View campus pulls into a pre-approved Muni stop at 24th St and Valencia. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commuter shuttle headed to Google's Mountain View campus pulls into a pre-approved Muni stop at 24th and Valencia streets. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/15/sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses/\">pilot program\u003c/a> for commuter shuttles launched today. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) created the program mainly to regulate buses that carry tech workers south to their company's campuses in places such as Mountain View and Menlo Park. Many tech companies provide buses for their employees, and the shuttles are commonly called \"Google Buses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commuter shuttles have been using existing Municipal Railway stops to pick up or drop off passengers for years, which has contributed to some of Muni's delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start of the pilot program caused some confusion among tech shuttle passengers today as buses started using new or different Muni stops. The shuttles are now limited to about 100 Muni stops, and the shuttle operators have to pay$3.55 per bus per stop to cover the cost of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Holland, a spokeswoman for the SFMTA, said: \"We wanted to make sure that these shuttles could still operate since they are still taking individual car trips off the road, which is a goal of ours, helps Muni, helps all of our transportation system work better. But it needed to work better with Muni.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles also have to display green placards with an identification number on the front and back bumpers, so SFMTA officials can issue citations and track complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the shuttles are contributing to a higher cost of living in the city -- one UC Berkeley student argued in her master's thesis in city planning that \u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\">rents are higher around tech shuttle stops.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, a small protest led by advocates for seniors and people with disabilities briefly disrupted several bus departures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttle pilot program is scheduled to last 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Advocates for seniors and people with disabilities protested, briefly disrupting several bus departures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1406938774,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":320},"headData":{"title":"SFMTA Starts Commuter Shuttle Pilot Program | KQED","description":"Advocates for seniors and people with disabilities protested, briefly disrupting several bus departures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"143653 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=143653","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/sfmta-starts-commuter-shuttle-pilot-program/","disqusTitle":"SFMTA Starts Commuter Shuttle Pilot Program","customPermalink":"2014/08/01/san-francisco-tech-bus-payment-program-begins/","path":"/news/143653/sfmta-starts-commuter-shuttle-pilot-program","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11371_photo.JPG-alt_136.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-143658 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11371_photo.JPG-alt_136-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A commuter shuttle headed to Google's Mountain View campus pulls into a pre-approved Muni stop at 24th St and Valencia. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commuter shuttle headed to Google's Mountain View campus pulls into a pre-approved Muni stop at 24th and Valencia streets. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/15/sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses/\">pilot program\u003c/a> for commuter shuttles launched today. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) created the program mainly to regulate buses that carry tech workers south to their company's campuses in places such as Mountain View and Menlo Park. Many tech companies provide buses for their employees, and the shuttles are commonly called \"Google Buses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commuter shuttles have been using existing Municipal Railway stops to pick up or drop off passengers for years, which has contributed to some of Muni's delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The start of the pilot program caused some confusion among tech shuttle passengers today as buses started using new or different Muni stops. The shuttles are now limited to about 100 Muni stops, and the shuttle operators have to pay$3.55 per bus per stop to cover the cost of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Holland, a spokeswoman for the SFMTA, said: \"We wanted to make sure that these shuttles could still operate since they are still taking individual car trips off the road, which is a goal of ours, helps Muni, helps all of our transportation system work better. But it needed to work better with Muni.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles also have to display green placards with an identification number on the front and back bumpers, so SFMTA officials can issue citations and track complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the shuttles are contributing to a higher cost of living in the city -- one UC Berkeley student argued in her master's thesis in city planning that \u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\">rents are higher around tech shuttle stops.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, a small protest led by advocates for seniors and people with disabilities briefly disrupted several bus departures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttle pilot program is scheduled to last 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/143653/sfmta-starts-commuter-shuttle-pilot-program","authors":["229"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5384","news_1334","news_5547"],"featImg":"news_143658","label":"news_6944"},"news_141682":{"type":"posts","id":"news_141682","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"141682","score":null,"sort":[1405469747000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses","title":"SFMTA Approves Higher Fees For Google, Tech Buses","publishDate":1405469747,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies using San Francisco city bus stops to pick up and drop off passengers on commuter shuttles will have to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors voted to approve a fee increase from $1 per stop per day to $3.55 after fewer shuttle providers than expected signed up for an 18-month pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new fee would take effect later this year and rise to $3.67 next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot, which begins Aug. 1, allows companies operating shuttle buses -- seen by critics as a sign of inequality and housing displacement -- to use Muni bus stops for a fee in order to limit the impact on Muni service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the first list of shared Muni stops, along with a handful of white zones. Shuttles will use the white zones at locations where Muni stops are too busy to handle private buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 fee had to be revised after SFMTA officials realized the costs of the project were going to be more than the $1.6 million originally anticipated, and that the number of stops per day was fewer than expected -- only 2,449 were requested from shuttle providers, 40 percent less than anticipated, SFMTA officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One objection raised at today's meeting was from the Mission Bay Transit Management Association, which operates small shuttles that run to and from the Mission Bay neighborhood, which they said was mandated by the city's redevelopment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles run between the Caltrain station, the Powell Street BART station and the Mission Bay neighborhood and are intended as a first-and-last-stop solution for people who have few transit options for getting there, said Corinne Woods of the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Bay TMA is a nonprofit enterprise that charges a fee to property owners to operate the service. Mission Bay has seen a huge influx of new residents and businesses recently but still has few public transit options, \"so the shuttle service is really critical,\" Woods said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers argued the Mission Bay shuttles should not be charged the same fees as the large corporate buses operating regionally and that the proposed fee increase could cripple the shuttle service's operating budget. SFMTA board Chairman Tom Nolan said the speakers \"raised a good point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carli Paine, an SFMTA transportation manager, said about 80 percent of shuttles using Muni stops take passengers to destinations within San Francisco, while the other 20 percent take passengers to destinations outside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said they looked into the possibility of a tiered pricing system for different kinds of shuttles, but that the San Francisco City Attorney's office advised them that was not permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue the shuttles take up city resources and impact rents in San Francisco by encouraging highly paid workers to move there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Shortt, who is named as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the program, said at today's meeting that the increased fees were \"a step in the right direction.\" But she questioned whether they would be enough to cover enforcement costs. Shortt said those costs rise as the buses use parking spots or idle in the street rather than bus stops, to avoid paying the fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Loper, a policy associate for the Bay Area Council praised today's decision, saying that the commuter shuttles are \"innovative transportation\" that take cars off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The benefits are immense,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The agency is proposing to charge transportation service providers using the Muni network $3.55 per shuttle stop.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1405549287,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":602},"headData":{"title":"SFMTA Approves Higher Fees For Google, Tech Buses | KQED","description":"The agency is proposing to charge transportation service providers using the Muni network $3.55 per shuttle stop.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"141682 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=141682","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/15/sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses/","disqusTitle":"SFMTA Approves Higher Fees For Google, Tech Buses","path":"/news/141682/sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies using San Francisco city bus stops to pick up and drop off passengers on commuter shuttles will have to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors voted to approve a fee increase from $1 per stop per day to $3.55 after fewer shuttle providers than expected signed up for an 18-month pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new fee would take effect later this year and rise to $3.67 next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot, which begins Aug. 1, allows companies operating shuttle buses -- seen by critics as a sign of inequality and housing displacement -- to use Muni bus stops for a fee in order to limit the impact on Muni service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved the first list of shared Muni stops, along with a handful of white zones. Shuttles will use the white zones at locations where Muni stops are too busy to handle private buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 fee had to be revised after SFMTA officials realized the costs of the project were going to be more than the $1.6 million originally anticipated, and that the number of stops per day was fewer than expected -- only 2,449 were requested from shuttle providers, 40 percent less than anticipated, SFMTA officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One objection raised at today's meeting was from the Mission Bay Transit Management Association, which operates small shuttles that run to and from the Mission Bay neighborhood, which they said was mandated by the city's redevelopment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles run between the Caltrain station, the Powell Street BART station and the Mission Bay neighborhood and are intended as a first-and-last-stop solution for people who have few transit options for getting there, said Corinne Woods of the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission Bay TMA is a nonprofit enterprise that charges a fee to property owners to operate the service. Mission Bay has seen a huge influx of new residents and businesses recently but still has few public transit options, \"so the shuttle service is really critical,\" Woods said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers argued the Mission Bay shuttles should not be charged the same fees as the large corporate buses operating regionally and that the proposed fee increase could cripple the shuttle service's operating budget. SFMTA board Chairman Tom Nolan said the speakers \"raised a good point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carli Paine, an SFMTA transportation manager, said about 80 percent of shuttles using Muni stops take passengers to destinations within San Francisco, while the other 20 percent take passengers to destinations outside the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said they looked into the possibility of a tiered pricing system for different kinds of shuttles, but that the San Francisco City Attorney's office advised them that was not permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue the shuttles take up city resources and impact rents in San Francisco by encouraging highly paid workers to move there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Shortt, who is named as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the program, said at today's meeting that the increased fees were \"a step in the right direction.\" But she questioned whether they would be enough to cover enforcement costs. Shortt said those costs rise as the buses use parking spots or idle in the street rather than bus stops, to avoid paying the fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Loper, a policy associate for the Bay Area Council praised today's decision, saying that the commuter shuttles are \"innovative transportation\" that take cars off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The benefits are immense,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/141682/sfmta-to-vote-on-higher-fees-for-google-tech-buses","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5384"],"featImg":"news_137366","label":"news_6944"},"news_131406":{"type":"posts","id":"news_131406","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"131406","score":null,"sort":[1396474763000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"protesters-block-yahoo-shuttle-at-macarthur-bart-station","title":"Protesters Block Yahoo Shuttle at MacArthur BART Station","publishDate":1396474763,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131417\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131417\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/yhoobus.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters on top of a Yahoo bus Wednesday. (Defend the Bay)\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters on top of a Yahoo bus Wednesday. (Defend the Bay)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today in tech-shuttle protesting: Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay City News says BART police responded to reports around 7:30 a.m. of dozens of protesters blocking buses at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. The group dispersed peacefully, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle posted \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/04/02/protesters-block-vomit-on-yahoo-bus-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">this account\u003c/a> with photos of an unfurled banner in front of a Yahoo bus. The banner says: \"Capital is the driver, gentrification is the vehicle, techies on the bus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says the windshield of the bus may have been vomited on -- here's a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/revscript/status/451380896076029953/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\">photo\u003c/a> if you feel inclined to examine the evidence. The Chron says an Apple bus may have been targeted as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/02/18753431.php\" target=\"_blank\">More photos at Indybay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bay City News, organizers said today's protest was part of a \"Defend the Bay Area\" week of actions scheduled to last through Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, protesters blocked a Google shuttle bus in San Francisco's Mission District. That didn't stop the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/01/google-bus-San-Francisco-Supervisors/\" target=\"_blank\">voting last night to go ahead with a program\u003c/a> that would allow private shuttles to pay for permission to use city bus stops -- but only at $1 a stop per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 8-2, with supervisors David Campos and John Avalos voting to oppose rejecting the appeal. Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bryan Goebel contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The latest in a series of demonstrations against tech buses.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1396478927,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":241},"headData":{"title":"Protesters Block Yahoo Shuttle at MacArthur BART Station | KQED","description":"The latest in a series of demonstrations against tech buses.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"131406 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=131406","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/02/protesters-block-yahoo-shuttle-at-macarthur-bart-station/","disqusTitle":"Protesters Block Yahoo Shuttle at MacArthur BART Station","customPermalink":"2014/04/02/oakland-tech-bus-protest/","path":"/news/131406/protesters-block-yahoo-shuttle-at-macarthur-bart-station","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131417\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131417\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/yhoobus.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters on top of a Yahoo bus Wednesday. (Defend the Bay)\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters on top of a Yahoo bus Wednesday. (Defend the Bay)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today in tech-shuttle protesting: Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay City News says BART police responded to reports around 7:30 a.m. of dozens of protesters blocking buses at Oakland's MacArthur BART station. The group dispersed peacefully, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle posted \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/04/02/protesters-block-vomit-on-yahoo-bus-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">this account\u003c/a> with photos of an unfurled banner in front of a Yahoo bus. The banner says: \"Capital is the driver, gentrification is the vehicle, techies on the bus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says the windshield of the bus may have been vomited on -- here's a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/revscript/status/451380896076029953/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\">photo\u003c/a> if you feel inclined to examine the evidence. The Chron says an Apple bus may have been targeted as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/02/18753431.php\" target=\"_blank\">More photos at Indybay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bay City News, organizers said today's protest was part of a \"Defend the Bay Area\" week of actions scheduled to last through Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, protesters blocked a Google shuttle bus in San Francisco's Mission District. That didn't stop the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/01/google-bus-San-Francisco-Supervisors/\" target=\"_blank\">voting last night to go ahead with a program\u003c/a> that would allow private shuttles to pay for permission to use city bus stops -- but only at $1 a stop per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 8-2, with supervisors David Campos and John Avalos voting to oppose rejecting the appeal. Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bryan Goebel contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/131406/protesters-block-yahoo-shuttle-at-macarthur-bart-station","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6266","news_248"],"tags":["news_5384","news_18"],"featImg":"news_131424","label":"news_6944"},"news_131201":{"type":"posts","id":"news_131201","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"131201","score":null,"sort":[1396455635000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ahead-of-san-francisco-supervisors-hearing-another-google-bus-protest","title":"San Francisco Supervisors Deny Appeal of Google Bus Law","publishDate":1396455635,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/google2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>In Oakland today, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/02/oakland-tech-bus-protest/\" target=\"_blank\">another tech bus protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1 Wednesday\u003c/strong>: Opponents of San Francisco's tech shuttles have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Appeal-targeting-S-F-tech-shuttles-shot-down-5369085.php\" target=\"_blank\">lost an environmental appeal\u003c/a> to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last night, the board voted to go ahead with a program that would allow private employee shuttles to pay for permission to use city bus stops -- but only at $1 a stop per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 8-2, with supervisors David Campos and John Avalos voting to oppose rejecting the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents' attorney Richard Drury told the board there should be an environmental review first. \"You don't approve a project and then find out what are the impacts by measuring air quality, pedestrian safety risks, after the buses are already out of the gate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"72b4bf907427a06d75a90f0cff481c5f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Opponents of tech shuttles had fought city plan to charge the buses $1 per stop per day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1396478447,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":912},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Supervisors Deny Appeal of Google Bus Law | KQED","description":"Opponents of tech shuttles had fought city plan to charge the buses $1 per stop per day.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"131201 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=131201","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/02/ahead-of-san-francisco-supervisors-hearing-another-google-bus-protest/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Supervisors Deny Appeal of Google Bus Law","customPermalink":"2014/04/01/google-bus-San-Francisco-Supervisors/","path":"/news/131201/ahead-of-san-francisco-supervisors-hearing-another-google-bus-protest","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/google2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>In Oakland today, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/02/oakland-tech-bus-protest/\" target=\"_blank\">another tech bus protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1 Wednesday\u003c/strong>: Opponents of San Francisco's tech shuttles have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Appeal-targeting-S-F-tech-shuttles-shot-down-5369085.php\" target=\"_blank\">lost an environmental appeal\u003c/a> to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last night, the board voted to go ahead with a program that would allow private employee shuttles to pay for permission to use city bus stops -- but only at $1 a stop per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 8-2, with supervisors David Campos and John Avalos voting to oppose rejecting the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents' attorney Richard Drury told the board there should be an environmental review first. \"You don't approve a project and then find out what are the impacts by measuring air quality, pedestrian safety risks, after the buses are already out of the gate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/131201/ahead-of-san-francisco-supervisors-hearing-another-google-bus-protest","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6266","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5384"],"featImg":"news_131220","label":"news_6944"},"news_125274":{"type":"posts","id":"news_125274","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"125274","score":null,"sort":[1391623065000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-bus-wars-genentech-bus-has-new-slogan","title":"Corporate Shuttle Bus Trumpets Environmental Benefits","publishDate":1391623065,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Today on Bay Area Bus Wars ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-125276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/genentech-bus-e1391616229791.jpg\" alt=\"genentech bus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lancour/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the Genentech bus, transporting passengers through the Marina this morning on its way to the company's South San Francisco office. The idea presumably being that the message \"This bus removes 120 cars from your commute everyday\" will make drivers stuck behind the lumbering vehicle think it's a small price to pay for fighting climate change -- although, as pointed out by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/05/new-genentech-bus-ads-removes-120-cars-every-day-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/everyday-vs-every-day/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Everyday\" should be \"every day.\"\u003c/a> So, for every two protesters that sentiment removes from the streets, one livid English teacher will emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Genentech spokesperson told the Chron that the new slogan, which started appearing in December, isn't a response to the multiple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area protests against the Google bus\u003c/a>, which has become a symbol of privilege in a time when many blame the influx of new tech workers for evictions and high housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, of course, have made the very argument that the new Genentech slogan does: The buses are a great idea environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, local author Rebecca Solnit wrote one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">seminal broadsides\u003c/a> against the buses in the \"London Review of Books.\" As News Fix's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/good-read/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote last month\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. “Most of them are gleaming white,” she wrote in opening the essay, “with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response, Ben Adler of Grist, an environmentalist news site, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a critique\u003c/a> of that line of argument ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Solnit hit back last month with another essay, called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" in the magazine \"Guernica.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most people (including Adler at one point in his all-over-the-place piece) wonder why people who work 40 miles away should travel those 80 miles daily down and back one of the more congested freeways around. The buses encourage them to pursue this geographical ridiculousness. And thus come the well-paid engineers to San Francisco, and thus go the longtime activists, idealists, artists, teachers, plumbers, all the less-well-paid people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, perhaps, any ride-sharing program may seem green and community-building, but the effects of the Google bus on the ecosystem of San Francisco are complicated. One of the organizers of the Google bus blockade last month just wrote me, in response to Adler’s piece, “The idea that all of the techies would choose to live in SF and drive to Silicon Valley if not for the buses is a total exaggeration. Half the techies surveyed by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency said they wouldn’t drive by themselves (only 3% would carpool) & 31% said they wouldn’t be able to make the trip at all according to info I found in SFMTA’s Private Commuter Shuttles Policy Draft Proposal. The proposal also notes the ‘Google’ buses’ average dwell time (at bus stops) is 3x that of the Muni.” So the buses aren’t creating greener transit for people who’d live here anyway. They’re also enabling long-distance commuters who wouldn’t live here otherwise.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dotcom Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short – yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate continues ...\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Accentuating the positive amid the controversy over the shuttle buses of technology firms.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399488736,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":867},"headData":{"title":"Corporate Shuttle Bus Trumpets Environmental Benefits | KQED","description":"Accentuating the positive amid the controversy over the shuttle buses of technology firms.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"125274 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=125274","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/05/bay-area-bus-wars-genentech-bus-has-new-slogan/","disqusTitle":"Corporate Shuttle Bus Trumpets Environmental Benefits","customPermalink":"2014/02/05/genentech-bus/","path":"/news/125274/bay-area-bus-wars-genentech-bus-has-new-slogan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today on Bay Area Bus Wars ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-125276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/genentech-bus-e1391616229791.jpg\" alt=\"genentech bus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lancour/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the Genentech bus, transporting passengers through the Marina this morning on its way to the company's South San Francisco office. The idea presumably being that the message \"This bus removes 120 cars from your commute everyday\" will make drivers stuck behind the lumbering vehicle think it's a small price to pay for fighting climate change -- although, as pointed out by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/05/new-genentech-bus-ads-removes-120-cars-every-day-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/everyday-vs-every-day/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Everyday\" should be \"every day.\"\u003c/a> So, for every two protesters that sentiment removes from the streets, one livid English teacher will emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Genentech spokesperson told the Chron that the new slogan, which started appearing in December, isn't a response to the multiple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area protests against the Google bus\u003c/a>, which has become a symbol of privilege in a time when many blame the influx of new tech workers for evictions and high housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, of course, have made the very argument that the new Genentech slogan does: The buses are a great idea environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, local author Rebecca Solnit wrote one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">seminal broadsides\u003c/a> against the buses in the \"London Review of Books.\" As News Fix's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/good-read/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote last month\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. “Most of them are gleaming white,” she wrote in opening the essay, “with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response, Ben Adler of Grist, an environmentalist news site, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a critique\u003c/a> of that line of argument ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Solnit hit back last month with another essay, called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" in the magazine \"Guernica.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most people (including Adler at one point in his all-over-the-place piece) wonder why people who work 40 miles away should travel those 80 miles daily down and back one of the more congested freeways around. The buses encourage them to pursue this geographical ridiculousness. And thus come the well-paid engineers to San Francisco, and thus go the longtime activists, idealists, artists, teachers, plumbers, all the less-well-paid people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, perhaps, any ride-sharing program may seem green and community-building, but the effects of the Google bus on the ecosystem of San Francisco are complicated. One of the organizers of the Google bus blockade last month just wrote me, in response to Adler’s piece, “The idea that all of the techies would choose to live in SF and drive to Silicon Valley if not for the buses is a total exaggeration. Half the techies surveyed by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency said they wouldn’t drive by themselves (only 3% would carpool) & 31% said they wouldn’t be able to make the trip at all according to info I found in SFMTA’s Private Commuter Shuttles Policy Draft Proposal. The proposal also notes the ‘Google’ buses’ average dwell time (at bus stops) is 3x that of the Muni.” So the buses aren’t creating greener transit for people who’d live here anyway. They’re also enabling long-distance commuters who wouldn’t live here otherwise.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dotcom Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short – yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate continues ...\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/125274/bay-area-bus-wars-genentech-bus-has-new-slogan","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6266","news_248"],"tags":["news_5384"],"featImg":"news_125276","label":"news_6944"},"news_124024":{"type":"posts","id":"news_124024","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"124024","score":null,"sort":[1390350307000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses-in-san-francisco","title":"Yet Another Protest Against Tech Buses as San Francisco Adopts Shuttle Plan","publishDate":1390350307,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Priced Out | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120270\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/11293201603_070575a91a_o-e1386615496451.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-120270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/11293201603_070575a91a_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"In a December protest, activists surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a December protest, activists surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors has just approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program\u003c/a> to begin regulating employee shuttles in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was passed by a unanimous voice vote that came after two hours of sometimes angry public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing took place after anti-displacement protesters held another in a series of protests against the buses, which are used by Google, Facebook, Apple and other tech firms to transport workers to the South Bay. In today's action, marchers blocked buses reportedly headed for Google and Facebook at 8th and Market Streets for about 30 minutes during the morning rush hour. The activists, who are demanding the city take action to slow the pace of evictions and limit rent increases, then marched to the San Francisco Association of Realtors before holding a rally at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA's pilot program would cover shuttles for UCSF and other colleges in the city as well as bus services operated on behalf of large office buildings and the Silicon Valley technology companies. If approved, the SFMTA proposal would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Require shuttle operators — both bus firms and companies that set up shuttles for workers — to get permits to operate in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Designate 200 stops for shuttle use, many of which are Muni bus stops.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impose rules to prevent shuttles from blocking Muni vehicles or other traffic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charge buses $1 for every stop they make. SFMTA planners say that will raise $1.5 million over the life of the 18-month pilot and defray the program 's costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA board heard about two hours of public comment on the proposal. On the anti-side, residents and activists said the $1 per stop price was too low, that the buses are out of control on the streets, that they pose a danger to pedestrians and cyclists, and that they're helping fuel the displacement of tenants unable to pay rents driven upward by the influx of highly paid tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing's going to change until people rise up and do something, and stopping these buses would be a step in the right direction,\" one speaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, several tech company and bus service employees said they supported both the shuttles and the pilot program. They said the buses reduce car trips, cut pollution and provide economic benefits to the city both by fostering the current tech boom and by encouraging those who commute to Silicon Valley via bus to spend more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A speaker who identified herself as Krista Jones, an employee of bus service Bauer's Transportation, said activists were indulging in \"misplaced hostility\" by blaming the buses for the city's housing and displacement issues. \"Wake the hell up to what's really going on,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Mina Kim talks with News Fix editor Dan Brekke about the details of the pilot program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130737142&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting has started. On the agenda: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program under which shuttle operators would pay for using city-owned and -maintained stops\u003c/a>. (Before that item came up, the MTA board heard public comments calling on the agency to do something to respond to a rising number of pedestrians being struck and killed by cars in the city.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a> is at the meeting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> Mtng on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulations getting underway ... packed room. Just avoided getting kicked out. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Q0xscmFHUL\">pic.twitter.com/Q0xscmFHUL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425740190708006912\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>At least 27 speakers waiting to sound off to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> board abt \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulation... next item after director's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425743732051169280\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Noon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Solnit, a local author and historian who has written extensively about the impact of tech workers moving into San Francisco, said today's protest is about fighting for the \"San Francisco dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the dream that you can be idealistic, that you can lead a really meaningful life ... that you can live in a city that has room for everyone,\" she told the crowd gathered at City Hall this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the reason a lot of us were out there blockading this morning is that we're looking at a city that could become homogeneous, that could become a very dense suburb ... as it becomes a bedroom community for the Silicon Valley,\" Solnit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:30 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of several dozen protesters briefly blocked two tech buses at Market and Eighth streets in San Francisco this morning. As of 10 a.m., the buses had been allowed to leave and the protesters had marched up Market Street to the offices of the San Francisco Association of Realtors at Grove and Franklin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is ground zero for the battle of renters in San Francisco,\" a woman yelled through a bullhorn while gesturing at the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters played musical instruments including drums, a saxophone, a trombone and a clarinet. The crowd chanted, \"What do we want? Stop the evictions!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal Heights resident Amanda Ream, 38, said she is participating in today's protest because she wants San Francisco to \"maintain the diversity and culture that I love about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Barry Hermanson, 62, a homeowner in the Sunset District, said, \"The eviction crisis is out of hand...The gentrification in this city is incredible.\" Hermanson said he is running for Congress, in part because he says he is concerned about a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group protested outside the Realtors' office for about 10 minutes before heading back toward Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>***\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Picking up with our original post:] \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nReports via Twitter showed dozens of protesters stopped two buses at 8th and Market streets. It's unknown right now which tech companies are connected to the vehicles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Protesters against the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/google\">@google\u003c/a> bus are at 8th and market. Lots of backed up traffic. Police just arrived \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23googlebus&src=hash\">#googlebus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/tMHg6EMnTp\">pic.twitter.com/tMHg6EMnTp\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kyle Wong (@kwong47) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwong47/statuses/425683423215120385\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>RT \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kurtisalexander\">@kurtisalexander\u003c/a>: Exchange between police and tech protesters in downtown S.F. getting testy. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoogleBus&src=hash\">#GoogleBus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/We5osJRUx1\">pic.twitter.com/We5osJRUx1\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SFGate.com (@SFGate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/statuses/425682837258268673\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a press release from the anti-eviction/anti-displacement group that organized this morning's protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Subject: Embargoed Press Release: Anti-Displacement Action Against the Relationship of Tech, Real Estate Speculation, and City Politics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embargoed Press Release (keep embargo until 9am PST on 1/21/14).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press Contacts:\u003cbr>\nRebecca Gourevitch (650)248-1295\u003cbr>\nRoberto Hernandez (415)206-0577\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What: \u003c/strong>Anti-Displacement Action Against the Impacts of the Tech Boom, Real Estate Speculation and City Politics\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where:\u003c/strong> Beginning at UN Plaza, marching to three locations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When:\u003c/strong> 8:30am, Tuesday 1/21/14. We will conclude by 11am. Some of us will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Hearing on the Tech Bus Pilot Program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday 1/21/14 at 8:30am, a group of activists, organizers, and community members will join together at UN Plaza to protest the augmenting levels of displacement shattering the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three target locations will highlight what we see as the main causal relationship of displacement in San Francisco: real estate speculators and investors are capitalizing on the tech class that big tech corporations are inputting into the city. The city gives the tech industry major incentives to move in, be they tax breaks or practically free use of public bus stops and other infrastructure. Real estate speculators take advantage of this, abusing state laws such as the Ellis Act to displace longtime residents, disproportionately those who are elderly, disabled, and/or in other ways marginalized. This industry too has long had its hands in the pockets of politicians. The collusion between tech, real estate, and city/state politics is responsible for the unprecedented levels of displacement. Ellis Act evictions have gone up 170% over the last 12 months; no-fault evictions are up 83% over the last three years. Rents are up 20% along tech bus routes, and evictions have skyrocketed in SOMA directly correlating to Twitter settling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will march to three locations and will have speakers at each one, including community leaders, writers, and tenants who are being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Board meeting on the $1/bus stop proposal. We maintain that $1 doesn't stop displacement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Protest blocks buses as city transit board approves plan to formally allow the buses to use Muni stops.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1390370466,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":1462},"headData":{"title":"Yet Another Protest Against Tech Buses as San Francisco Adopts Shuttle Plan | KQED","description":"Protest blocks buses as city transit board approves plan to formally allow the buses to use Muni stops.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"124024 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=124024","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/21/yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses-in-san-francisco/","disqusTitle":"Yet Another Protest Against Tech Buses as San Francisco Adopts Shuttle Plan","customPermalink":"2014/01/21/yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses/","path":"/news/124024/yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120270\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/11293201603_070575a91a_o-e1386615496451.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-120270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/11293201603_070575a91a_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"In a December protest, activists surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a December protest, activists surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors has just approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program\u003c/a> to begin regulating employee shuttles in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was passed by a unanimous voice vote that came after two hours of sometimes angry public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing took place after anti-displacement protesters held another in a series of protests against the buses, which are used by Google, Facebook, Apple and other tech firms to transport workers to the South Bay. In today's action, marchers blocked buses reportedly headed for Google and Facebook at 8th and Market Streets for about 30 minutes during the morning rush hour. The activists, who are demanding the city take action to slow the pace of evictions and limit rent increases, then marched to the San Francisco Association of Realtors before holding a rally at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA's pilot program would cover shuttles for UCSF and other colleges in the city as well as bus services operated on behalf of large office buildings and the Silicon Valley technology companies. If approved, the SFMTA proposal would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Require shuttle operators — both bus firms and companies that set up shuttles for workers — to get permits to operate in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Designate 200 stops for shuttle use, many of which are Muni bus stops.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Impose rules to prevent shuttles from blocking Muni vehicles or other traffic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charge buses $1 for every stop they make. SFMTA planners say that will raise $1.5 million over the life of the 18-month pilot and defray the program 's costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA board heard about two hours of public comment on the proposal. On the anti-side, residents and activists said the $1 per stop price was too low, that the buses are out of control on the streets, that they pose a danger to pedestrians and cyclists, and that they're helping fuel the displacement of tenants unable to pay rents driven upward by the influx of highly paid tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing's going to change until people rise up and do something, and stopping these buses would be a step in the right direction,\" one speaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, several tech company and bus service employees said they supported both the shuttles and the pilot program. They said the buses reduce car trips, cut pollution and provide economic benefits to the city both by fostering the current tech boom and by encouraging those who commute to Silicon Valley via bus to spend more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A speaker who identified herself as Krista Jones, an employee of bus service Bauer's Transportation, said activists were indulging in \"misplaced hostility\" by blaming the buses for the city's housing and displacement issues. \"Wake the hell up to what's really going on,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Mina Kim talks with News Fix editor Dan Brekke about the details of the pilot program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130737142&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting has started. On the agenda: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\" target=\"_blank\">a pilot program under which shuttle operators would pay for using city-owned and -maintained stops\u003c/a>. (Before that item came up, the MTA board heard public comments calling on the agency to do something to respond to a rising number of pedestrians being struck and killed by cars in the city.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a> is at the meeting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> Mtng on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulations getting underway ... packed room. Just avoided getting kicked out. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/Q0xscmFHUL\">pic.twitter.com/Q0xscmFHUL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425740190708006912\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>At least 27 speakers waiting to sound off to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SFMTA&src=hash\">#SFMTA\u003c/a> board abt \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23techshuttle&src=hash\">#techshuttle\u003c/a> regulation... next item after director's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/425743732051169280\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Noon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Solnit, a local author and historian who has written extensively about the impact of tech workers moving into San Francisco, said today's protest is about fighting for the \"San Francisco dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the dream that you can be idealistic, that you can lead a really meaningful life ... that you can live in a city that has room for everyone,\" she told the crowd gathered at City Hall this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the reason a lot of us were out there blockading this morning is that we're looking at a city that could become homogeneous, that could become a very dense suburb ... as it becomes a bedroom community for the Silicon Valley,\" Solnit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:30 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay City News \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of several dozen protesters briefly blocked two tech buses at Market and Eighth streets in San Francisco this morning. As of 10 a.m., the buses had been allowed to leave and the protesters had marched up Market Street to the offices of the San Francisco Association of Realtors at Grove and Franklin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is ground zero for the battle of renters in San Francisco,\" a woman yelled through a bullhorn while gesturing at the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters played musical instruments including drums, a saxophone, a trombone and a clarinet. The crowd chanted, \"What do we want? Stop the evictions!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal Heights resident Amanda Ream, 38, said she is participating in today's protest because she wants San Francisco to \"maintain the diversity and culture that I love about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Barry Hermanson, 62, a homeowner in the Sunset District, said, \"The eviction crisis is out of hand...The gentrification in this city is incredible.\" Hermanson said he is running for Congress, in part because he says he is concerned about a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group protested outside the Realtors' office for about 10 minutes before heading back toward Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>***\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Picking up with our original post:] \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nReports via Twitter showed dozens of protesters stopped two buses at 8th and Market streets. It's unknown right now which tech companies are connected to the vehicles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Protesters against the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/google\">@google\u003c/a> bus are at 8th and market. Lots of backed up traffic. Police just arrived \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23googlebus&src=hash\">#googlebus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/tMHg6EMnTp\">pic.twitter.com/tMHg6EMnTp\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kyle Wong (@kwong47) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kwong47/statuses/425683423215120385\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>RT \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kurtisalexander\">@kurtisalexander\u003c/a>: Exchange between police and tech protesters in downtown S.F. getting testy. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoogleBus&src=hash\">#GoogleBus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/We5osJRUx1\">pic.twitter.com/We5osJRUx1\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SFGate.com (@SFGate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate/statuses/425682837258268673\">January 21, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a press release from the anti-eviction/anti-displacement group that organized this morning's protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Subject: Embargoed Press Release: Anti-Displacement Action Against the Relationship of Tech, Real Estate Speculation, and City Politics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embargoed Press Release (keep embargo until 9am PST on 1/21/14).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Press Contacts:\u003cbr>\nRebecca Gourevitch (650)248-1295\u003cbr>\nRoberto Hernandez (415)206-0577\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What: \u003c/strong>Anti-Displacement Action Against the Impacts of the Tech Boom, Real Estate Speculation and City Politics\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where:\u003c/strong> Beginning at UN Plaza, marching to three locations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When:\u003c/strong> 8:30am, Tuesday 1/21/14. We will conclude by 11am. Some of us will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Hearing on the Tech Bus Pilot Program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday 1/21/14 at 8:30am, a group of activists, organizers, and community members will join together at UN Plaza to protest the augmenting levels of displacement shattering the heart of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three target locations will highlight what we see as the main causal relationship of displacement in San Francisco: real estate speculators and investors are capitalizing on the tech class that big tech corporations are inputting into the city. The city gives the tech industry major incentives to move in, be they tax breaks or practically free use of public bus stops and other infrastructure. Real estate speculators take advantage of this, abusing state laws such as the Ellis Act to displace longtime residents, disproportionately those who are elderly, disabled, and/or in other ways marginalized. This industry too has long had its hands in the pockets of politicians. The collusion between tech, real estate, and city/state politics is responsible for the unprecedented levels of displacement. Ellis Act evictions have gone up 170% over the last 12 months; no-fault evictions are up 83% over the last three years. Rents are up 20% along tech bus routes, and evictions have skyrocketed in SOMA directly correlating to Twitter settling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will march to three locations and will have speakers at each one, including community leaders, writers, and tenants who are being displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will reconvene at City Hall at 1pm for the SFMTA Board meeting on the $1/bus stop proposal. We maintain that $1 doesn't stop displacement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/124024/yet-another-protest-against-tech-buses-in-san-francisco","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18549"],"categories":["news_6266","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5384","news_1775","news_320","news_38","news_1334","news_5547"],"featImg":"news_120270","label":"news_6944"},"news_122895":{"type":"posts","id":"news_122895","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"122895","score":null,"sort":[1389193223000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"good-read-rebecca-solnit-takes-on-the-tech-buses-again","title":"Good Read: Rebecca Solnit vs. the Tech Buses, Round 2","publishDate":1389193223,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Priced Out | News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/11293201603_070575a91a_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120270\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-120270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/11293201603_070575a91a_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in a protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read: \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>\" by Rebecca Solnit in Guernica. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit has got a thing or two to say on a wide array of subjects, from pioneering photographer \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28054.River_of_Shadows\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Muybridge\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78287.Wanderlust\" target=\"_blank\">history of walking\u003c/a> to the landscape, politics and culture of the West, particularly her longtime hometown of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8058236-infinite-city\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The biodiversity of the city is being laid waste, and in its place springs up a monocrop of technology workers.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Rebecca Solnit\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last year, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">an essay\u003c/a> for the London Review of Books on the meaning of San Francisco's rapidly proliferating fleet of technology shuttle buses. I think lots of people were noticing the big white motor coaches swooping into Muni bus zones around the city to carry workers to Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporate campuses. But Solnit's piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. \"Most of them are gleaming white,\" she wrote in opening the essay, \"with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, here we are in 2014, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\">the buses have become targets of protests\u003c/a> by activists fighting the sharp increase in rents and evictions in the city. The buses have also drawn their defenders, who argue mainly they cut the number of private cars crowding the roads from the city to Silicon Valley. Among those speaking up on behalf of the buses is Ben Adler, a writer for the environmental news site Grist, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">who took Solnit and other bus critics to task\u003c/a> for ignoring the buses' claimed benefits:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now Solnit is back with another broadside that takes aim at Adler and Grist, questions the environmental claims made for the buses and broadens her critique of the tech sector's impact on the city. Her new essay, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" was published Tuesday by online culture journal Guernica. She says in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m seeing the town that gave birth to the Sierra Club and Rainforest Action Network and seminal movements for human rights, a town that produced great insurrection and antiwar activism and idealism and new social ideas, become a place where you can’t afford to live unless you’re doing something incredibly lucrative and time-consuming -- and probably involving technology corporations. A young human rights activist is not so likely to be able to afford to live here, or a nurse’s aide, or a baker, and so the biodiversity of the city is being laid waste, and in its place springs up a monocrop of technology workers. If this continues, the contributions San Francisco has given the world will not be given any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who like green transit need to consider that when a place becomes the economic equivalent of a luxury resort, the urban equivalent of Jackson Hole, the laborers who really keep the place running -- the people who clean and cook and drive and build and care for the old, the young, the frail -- need to come in from far away. And no luxury coaches come to fetch the home healthcare worker from Richmond or the construction worker from Tracy. It’s unhealthy when firefighters and teachers can’t afford to live in the community they care for, and San Francisco was already tough that way: it’s now, thanks to the Silicon Valley incursion, getting a lot worse.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco author expands critique of the buses and of the tech sector's impact in the city. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1389210792,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":707},"headData":{"title":"Good Read: Rebecca Solnit vs. the Tech Buses, Round 2 | KQED","description":"San Francisco author expands critique of the buses and of the tech sector's impact in the city. 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(Steve Rhodes)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters surround a Google bus at 24th and Valencia streets Monday in a protest aimed at evictions and displacement in San Francisco's Mission District. (Steve Rhodes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read: \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>\" by Rebecca Solnit in Guernica. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit has got a thing or two to say on a wide array of subjects, from pioneering photographer \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28054.River_of_Shadows\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Muybridge\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78287.Wanderlust\" target=\"_blank\">history of walking\u003c/a> to the landscape, politics and culture of the West, particularly her longtime hometown of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8058236-infinite-city\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The biodiversity of the city is being laid waste, and in its place springs up a monocrop of technology workers.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Rebecca Solnit\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last year, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">an essay\u003c/a> for the London Review of Books on the meaning of San Francisco's rapidly proliferating fleet of technology shuttle buses. I think lots of people were noticing the big white motor coaches swooping into Muni bus zones around the city to carry workers to Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporate campuses. But Solnit's piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. \"Most of them are gleaming white,\" she wrote in opening the essay, \"with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, here we are in 2014, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\">the buses have become targets of protests\u003c/a> by activists fighting the sharp increase in rents and evictions in the city. The buses have also drawn their defenders, who argue mainly they cut the number of private cars crowding the roads from the city to Silicon Valley. Among those speaking up on behalf of the buses is Ben Adler, a writer for the environmental news site Grist, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">who took Solnit and other bus critics to task\u003c/a> for ignoring the buses' claimed benefits:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now Solnit is back with another broadside that takes aim at Adler and Grist, questions the environmental claims made for the buses and broadens her critique of the tech sector's impact on the city. Her new essay, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" was published Tuesday by online culture journal Guernica. She says in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m seeing the town that gave birth to the Sierra Club and Rainforest Action Network and seminal movements for human rights, a town that produced great insurrection and antiwar activism and idealism and new social ideas, become a place where you can’t afford to live unless you’re doing something incredibly lucrative and time-consuming -- and probably involving technology corporations. A young human rights activist is not so likely to be able to afford to live here, or a nurse’s aide, or a baker, and so the biodiversity of the city is being laid waste, and in its place springs up a monocrop of technology workers. If this continues, the contributions San Francisco has given the world will not be given any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who like green transit need to consider that when a place becomes the economic equivalent of a luxury resort, the urban equivalent of Jackson Hole, the laborers who really keep the place running -- the people who clean and cook and drive and build and care for the old, the young, the frail -- need to come in from far away. And no luxury coaches come to fetch the home healthcare worker from Richmond or the construction worker from Tracy. It’s unhealthy when firefighters and teachers can’t afford to live in the community they care for, and San Francisco was already tough that way: it’s now, thanks to the Silicon Valley incursion, getting a lot worse.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/122895/good-read-rebecca-solnit-takes-on-the-tech-buses-again","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"series":["news_18549"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5384","news_5269","news_702","news_38","news_353"],"featImg":"news_120270","label":"news_6944"},"news_122837":{"type":"posts","id":"news_122837","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"122837","score":null,"sort":[1389057230000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-cuts-deal-to-allow-shuttles-to-use-muni-stops","title":"San Francisco Cuts Deal to Allow Shuttles to Use Muni Stops ","publishDate":1389057230,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120267\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/rs5753_techbuses20130722-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120267\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120267 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5753_TechBuses20130722-scr-e1386614790147.jpg\" alt=\"A string of tech company buses plying the streets of the Mission. (David Gartner/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A string of tech company buses plying the streets of the Mission. (David Gartner/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials say major tech companies and shuttle bus operators have agreed to an 18-month experiment during which they'll pay to use some Muni bus stops and take other steps to cooperate with public transit in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference this afternoon at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, Mayor Ed Lee said the city will issue permits to both tech companies and bus operators and charge them to use about 200 of Muni's 2,500 bus stops. As part of the agreement, the companies and charter operators have agreed to not block Muni buses at the stops, to stay away from stops for which they don't have permits and to stay off the city's narrower, steeper streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Reiskin, the director of the transportation agency, said companies will pay a dollar for every stop they make at the 200 stops — a total of about $1.5 million over the life of the 18-month pilot. Google, Genentech, Apple, Facebook and other companies are participating in the experiment along with UC San Francisco, other college campuses and some office buildings that run shuttles in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city estimates that employee shuttles account for 35,000 passenger boardings every weekday and play a key role in reducing congestion and vehicle emissions. But the shuttles — typically massive white motor coaches with dark-tinted windows, are controversial for using Muni stops without any compensation of the city's expense to provide the stops. They've also become symbols in the city's current affordable-housing crisis, as the buses are used mostly by younger technology sector workers perceived as affluent, aloof from the life of the city and responsible for displacing longer-term residents by driving up rents and home prices. Anti-eviction protesters in San Francisco's Mission District \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\">halted tech shuttles twice in Decembe\u003c/a>r. In \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\">a similar incident in Oakland\u003c/a>, protesters vandalized a shuttle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee acknowledged the controversy, and defended the bus services, at today's press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that the more recent voices have been identifying these for purposes of political agendas and rhetoric, and I want to say the commuter shuttles have been of benefit,\" Lee said. \"Although they're symbolic of other things that people are perhaps angry about, I think they provide a good service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener, another news conference participant, said he was \"thrilled\" with the pilot program and the cooperation between the city, the tech companies and shuttle operators. He also said it's time to get past the controversy over the shuttles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We need to stop politicizing people's ability to get to work, 'cause that is really what this is about. Thousands and thousands of San Franciscans, San Francisco residents, some people who just moved here, some people who have lived here for decades, for longer than a lot of us have lived here, thousands of San Franciscans rely on these shuttles to get to work and to earn a livelihood every day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA Director Reiskin said the agency's board will consider the pilot plan at its meeting Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"City announces 18-month pilot plan that will issue permits and charge fees for using Muni facilities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1389127216,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":539},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Cuts Deal to Allow Shuttles to Use Muni Stops | KQED","description":"City announces 18-month pilot plan that will issue permits and charge fees for using Muni facilities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"122837 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=122837","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/06/san-francisco-cuts-deal-to-allow-shuttles-to-use-muni-stops/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Cuts Deal to Allow Shuttles to Use Muni Stops ","customPermalink":"2014/01/06/san-francisco-cuts-deal-to-allow-tech-shuttles/","path":"/news/122837/san-francisco-cuts-deal-to-allow-shuttles-to-use-muni-stops","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120267\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/activists/rs5753_techbuses20130722-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120267\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120267 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5753_TechBuses20130722-scr-e1386614790147.jpg\" alt=\"A string of tech company buses plying the streets of the Mission. (David Gartner/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A string of tech company buses plying the streets of the Mission. (David Gartner/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials say major tech companies and shuttle bus operators have agreed to an 18-month experiment during which they'll pay to use some Muni bus stops and take other steps to cooperate with public transit in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference this afternoon at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, Mayor Ed Lee said the city will issue permits to both tech companies and bus operators and charge them to use about 200 of Muni's 2,500 bus stops. As part of the agreement, the companies and charter operators have agreed to not block Muni buses at the stops, to stay away from stops for which they don't have permits and to stay off the city's narrower, steeper streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Reiskin, the director of the transportation agency, said companies will pay a dollar for every stop they make at the 200 stops — a total of about $1.5 million over the life of the 18-month pilot. Google, Genentech, Apple, Facebook and other companies are participating in the experiment along with UC San Francisco, other college campuses and some office buildings that run shuttles in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city estimates that employee shuttles account for 35,000 passenger boardings every weekday and play a key role in reducing congestion and vehicle emissions. But the shuttles — typically massive white motor coaches with dark-tinted windows, are controversial for using Muni stops without any compensation of the city's expense to provide the stops. They've also become symbols in the city's current affordable-housing crisis, as the buses are used mostly by younger technology sector workers perceived as affluent, aloof from the life of the city and responsible for displacing longer-term residents by driving up rents and home prices. Anti-eviction protesters in San Francisco's Mission District \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\">halted tech shuttles twice in Decembe\u003c/a>r. In \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/google-bus-protesters-manifesto-get-o/\" target=\"_blank\">a similar incident in Oakland\u003c/a>, protesters vandalized a shuttle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee acknowledged the controversy, and defended the bus services, at today's press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that the more recent voices have been identifying these for purposes of political agendas and rhetoric, and I want to say the commuter shuttles have been of benefit,\" Lee said. \"Although they're symbolic of other things that people are perhaps angry about, I think they provide a good service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener, another news conference participant, said he was \"thrilled\" with the pilot program and the cooperation between the city, the tech companies and shuttle operators. He also said it's time to get past the controversy over the shuttles:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We need to stop politicizing people's ability to get to work, 'cause that is really what this is about. Thousands and thousands of San Franciscans, San Francisco residents, some people who just moved here, some people who have lived here for decades, for longer than a lot of us have lived here, thousands of San Franciscans rely on these shuttles to get to work and to earn a livelihood every day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA Director Reiskin said the agency's board will consider the pilot plan at its meeting Jan. 21.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/122837/san-francisco-cuts-deal-to-allow-shuttles-to-use-muni-stops","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_543","news_5384","news_320","news_38"],"featImg":"news_120267","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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